Mar 20
Crowdsourced carmaker Local Motors, makers of the 100 percent bonkers Rally Fighter you see above, just teamed up with GE Appliances, maker of… appliances. Clearly, your kitchen is about to get way more badass.
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Mar 13
The Pacific Ocean is very, very big. Airplanes are big, too—but, compared to the Pacific Ocean, they are almost comically small. So, as rescuers finish up a week of searching unsuccessfully for Malaysia Air Flight 370, it’s worth taking a second to marvel at what an impossible a task it is to find one little plane in that very big ocean.
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Mar 12
The Boeing 777 that seemed to disappear into thin air
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Feb 18
Believe it or not, we don’t know how deep large parts of the ocean off the British coast really are, and this is obviously not a good thing for the many sailors who cruise around those waters. A new project funded by the European Community is using technology to solve this problem—technology and lots of boats.
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Nov 21
Planetary Resources and NASA team up to crowdsource the search for asteroids
Posted in: Today's Chili
Planetary Resources really wants to mine asteroids for valuable materials, but first it has to find them. So the company is partnering with NASA on a crowdsourcing project that would put the American public to work identifying and tracking near-Earth-objects (NEOs). All the data generated will be open sourced and made publicly available on the web. The effort will center on a series of challenges and contests designed to lure in citizen scientists and the results will be reviewed by Planetary Resources. Obviously, the company will be looking for mineable hunks of space rock, but it will also be giving back to the scientific community by using the data it collects to improve algorithms for detecting asteroids. And, obviously, the more of those we’re able to detect and track, the less likely we are to be caught off guard by a meteorite apocalypse. To be notified when the program kicks off, sign up for more info at the Planetary Resources site.
Filed under: Science, Internet
Source: Planetary Resources
Nov 11
I take my phone pretty much everywhere, but it’s true that there is a lot more that it could do, given the right add-ons. Check out the Kinsa accessory, which will not only take your temperature but may also be able to diagnose what’s wrong with you or your kids.
Kinsa is a low-cost thermometer that attaches to your iPhone via the headphone jack. It’s able to record your temperature history, and you can also input your symptoms. The Kinsa app taps into a database to see what kinds of illnesses are going around your local area. If there is a cold outbreak, then it’s possible that other people are suffering from it to. This is by no means a certain diagnosis, and it doesn’t replace a doctor, but it’s an interesting idea. And of course, it only works if there are other users in the area using Kinsa.
Kinsa is not yet available for purchase, but it will be available soon. You can hit up the Kinsa website to be notified of its release.
[via Ubergizmo]
Aug 26
We all know Kickstarter or Indiegogo, the popular crowd-funding websites that allow anyone with a good project to seek funding. We published our share of Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns on here, simply because the creativity of the ideas is amazing and the video demos are always fun to watch.
Last Thursday, the launch of JumpstartFund opened the door to a new breed of crowd powered product design that aims to help startups execute their best concepts. The best ideas and patents are evaluated by the JumpstartFund team for marketability and when selected, they are moved into the “work in progress” status on the site, where community members can collaborate, using their own specific skills, to eventually turn them into viable and successful companies.
JumpStartFund is built with a social network where members can participate and vote, and in return, they are rewarded with Advisory Points that equal a commission on the company’s revenue for the first year. They must stay actively involved in at least 50% of the crowdsourced activities related to that company (over its lifetime) to maintain that commission.
On the paper, JumpStart looks like a great platform to test and fund new product concepts, seek new innovations for existing patents, and find the best teams to execute the best ideas.
JumpStartFund CrowdPowered Portal For Startups original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Aug 01
Foursquare switched to editable OpenStreetMap data for its check-in services over a year ago, but many of its users wouldn’t know it when there hasn’t been a way to tweak maps through place pages. As of today, Foursquare is encouraging a little more interaction: Superusers (frequent contributors) in Australia, Brazil, Germany and the UK can now click a web link to edit a location in OpenStreetMap. Those who aren’t keen on signing up for OSM can still leave a note with their proposed changes. There’s no mention of plans to expand access to regular users, but the firm expects additional rollouts to Superusers in areas where map data is less than trustworthy.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet
Via: Foursquare Blog
Source: Foursquare
Jun 27
That’s right Canucks, Kickstarter’s launching in your neck of the woods before the midnight sun sets for the season. The crowdfunding site released a teaser page today, announcing that it’ll open up to Canada-based projects later this summer. It’s not the first site of its kind to accept submissions from north of the border, but if Indiegogo hasn’t been drawing in the results you need, you’ll soon be able to give it a go on another platform. The Kickstarter team is mum on an exact launch date, but with a bit less than three months left in summer, the clock is ticking.
Filed under: Household, Internet
Via: The Verge
Source: Kickstarter
May 14
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