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One writer’s unexpected bout of unemployment inspired him to catalogue the misadventures of those who came before him
February 2013
| By Amy Crawford
HapiFork, a utensil that slows down your eating, is one of a new wave of gadgets designed to help you take control of your health.
January 17, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Two authors spoke to dozens of the highest-achieving people in the world. Here’s what they learned
January 15, 2013
| By Amy Crawford
Every January, at the Consumer Electronics Show, companies make a point of showing us how much smarter TVs have become, with the hope that they'll once again become our favorite screen.
January 11, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
The digital pioneer and visionary behind virtual reality has turned against the very culture he helped create
January 2013
| By Ron Rosenbaum
A new book from best-selling author Jared Diamond tells us how we can learn a lot from people who live like most of us did 11,000 years ago
December 26, 2012
| By Amy Crawford
They haven't received much attention yet, but here are some of the more innovative--and useful--ideas that have popped up this year.
December 18, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Here's the second half of a list of innovations that, while not as splashy as Google Glass, may actually become a bigger part of our daily lives.
December 21, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Canadian researchers have created a computer model that performs tasks like a human brain. It also sometimes forgets things.
December 14, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
In the future, your cell phone's accelerometer could help detect earthquakes
December 05, 2012
| By Colin Schultz
All are inventive minds pushing technology in fresh directions, some to solve stubborn problems, others to make our lives a little fuller
December 27, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
From glasses that fight jet lag to a plant that waters itself to a rocking chair that fires up the iPad, here are presents no one will forget.
December 07, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Health and medical mobile apps are booming. But what happens when they shift from tracking data to diagnosing diseases?
December 04, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Senility isn’t the answer; IQ scores are increasing with each generation. In a new book, political scientist James Flynn explains why
December 03, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Follow along as we award the best innovators of the year
November 28, 2012
| By Brian Wolly
The recipient of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for natural sciences blazed a new view of how to treat infectious diseases via genetics
December 2012
| By Seth Mnookin
Born in desperation and long mocked, the social media platform has become a popular research and intelligence-gathering tool.
November 30, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
The innovative bassist and winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for performing arts is taking jazz to a whole new place
December 2012
| By dream hampton
The winner of the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for technology hopes to launch a revolution with his spaceship and electric car
December 2012
| By Carl Hoffman
Retailers are mining personal data to learn everything about you so they can help you help yourself to their products.
November 27, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
James Anderson, the winner of a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, has discovered the alarming link between climate change and ozone loss
December 2012
| By Sharon Begley
A high school sophomore won the youth achievement Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for inventing a new method to detect a lethal cancer
December 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
Pollutants from crude stoves are responsible for many deaths – a D.C.-based NGO has a solution
December 2012
| By Ingfei Chen
Sebastian Thrun, winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for education takes is redefining the modern classroom
December 2012
| By Tom Vanderbilt
The Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award winner for visual arts transformed filmmaking as he assembled a new myth out of Hurricane Katrina
December 2012
| By Franz Lidz
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