
03 2025 February
The Revolution of Self Driving Cars Is Not Going to Be Easy
Would you leave a tip for your driverless taxi? This past week a security researcher named Jane Wong shared leaked screenshots apparently showing the autonomous taxi service...
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28 2025 January
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Long History of the Future by Nicole Kobie
Wide-eyed predictions of the future are fun to read, and even more fun to write. Yet for every book that promises to predict the future,...
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22 2025 January
Why The “World’s First” AI-Powered Hotel May Be More Than Fancy Marketing
From the outside the Otonomus Hotel (pun probably intended) doesn’t really look much different from any other spot. The property just had their soft-launch before...
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16 2025 January
The Brilliance of Costco’s New Plan to Build Apartments on Top of Their Stores
There is a housing shortage in many cities. And there’s a Costco in those cities. In an ambitious new project, the brand is working with...
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14 2025 January
The Non-Obvious Media Platform of the Week: Shelly Palmer Blog
Rather than sharing a book recommendation this week, I wanted to switch it up and share a media source that’s particularly timely right now. If...
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13 2025 January
The Hottest Innovations and Tech from CES 2025 — Insights from the Ground
I’m very tempted to put together a “best innovations” list from the world’s largest tech trade show. I did one last year and I know...
Read Now19 2024 December
The Brilliant Entrepreneurial Lessons of a Plant Hacker Inventing New Flowers
To raise money to put himself through school and earn a biotechnology degree, Sebastian Cocioba would gather orchids that his local Home Depot had thrown...
Read Now14 2024 November
Is All-Blind Narration the Future of Audio Description for Films & TV?
“He looks ahead, his dark eyebrows overshadowing his dark eyes. One of his several gold teeth gleams in the dim light.” This is the audio...
Read Now13 2024 November
A Short Tour of the Best Inventions of 2024 According to TIME Magazine
The newly released TIME Best Inventions of 2024 was a lovely diversion today and I probably (definitely!) spent way too long digging into the many different products...
Read Now11 2024 November
Pet Cloning Isn’t the Future … It’s Already Happening, With A Long Waiting List
The promise is simple: your pet can live as long as you. Or, at least, a version of your pet thanks to the largest commercial pet cloning company who...
Read Now21 2024 October
The Talking Pet Collar That Aims to Give Your Pet a Voice
It’s an idea right out of science fiction: a talking pet collar. And it’s here thanks to entrepreneur John McHale who almost lost his dog...
Read Now14 2024 October
The First Profession to Be Replaced by Robots Could Be … Sports Referees?
In theory, a robotic referee would never miss a call, show bias or be bribed. It would make decisions instantly and eliminate the sometimes-agonizing wait...
Read Now04 2024 October
Remaking Classic Cars into the EVs of the Future
When I was a kid and we would travel to India, all the taxis looked the same. The model that dominated back then, and for...
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