Having incurred the wrath of Sandy this past hurricane season, I was
unwittingly placed in the market to replace a car that was totaled due
to flood damage. While social media has been around for almost a decade
now, the car dealership industry hasn’t always needed to rely on the new
marketing medium that’s known to garner new leads, and ultimately more
sales for many brands.
Lucky 13 comes in with a bang at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.
While in the real world, you might catch the flu in the exhibit halls
of the Las Vegas Convention Center, in the virtual world there’s no
viruses to speak of – just a lot of chatter that’s being monitored at
high frequency by Salesforce.
A scientific breakthrough, something obese and overweight people have only dreamed about, has been made at the University of Florida’s (UF) Sid Martin Biotechnology Development Institute, where Dr. Stephen Hsu and his research team have identified a ‘fat gene’ called TRIP-Br2.
When the team controlled the expression of this gene in mice, the mice
were unable to gain weight, no matter how much they ate.
If past years are any indication, losing weight is probably 2013’s most popular New Year’s resolution. To improve our (collective) chances of success this time around, we can utilize the power of technology to make our goals a reality. Two popular apps aim to help, but which is the better-designed product?
Under the heading ‘Be careful what you wish for,’ the inventor of the take-a-walk-on-wheels motorized Segway, Dean Kamen,
has applied for a patent for a pump that removes a portion of the food
you’ve just eaten from your stomach. Partners in this patent are members
of a company called Aspire Bariatrics. Here’s a brief description of
how the stomach sucker works….