Book Review: The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk from Jason Falls on Vimeo.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Lighting the world with LEDs
According to analyst estimates, by 2020 the LED lighting industry will be close to a $25 billion market worldwide. LED lighting manufacturer Bridgelux wants to be on the forefront of this shift. SmartPlanet correspondent Sumi Das talks to CEO Bill Watkins about Bridgelux's new LED array that delivers 5,000 operational lumens and how its latest technology is different from its competitors.
Lighting the world with LEDs
According to analyst estimates, by 2020 the LED lighting industry will be close to a $25 billion market worldwide. LED lighting manufacturer Bridgelux wants to be on the forefront of this shift. SmartPlanet correspondent Sumi Das talks to CEO Bill Watkins about Bridgelux's new LED array that delivers 5,000 operational lumens and how its latest technology is different from its competitors.
Is the cure for cancer inside milk?
Bruce German, a professor at UC Davis is researching the properties of milk and how it functions when ingested by growing infants. In his lab, scientists disassemble milk from mothers around the world, probing every molecule, then study the exact structures to come up with an understanding of how milk fights disease and improves health.
Inside Tesla's 1,000-pound battery pack
SmartPlanet takes a peek inside Tesla Motors' R&D lab and talks to CTO JB Straubel about the evolution of the electric vehicle and the technology behind the company's lithium ion battery pack.
Courtney Martin: Reinventing feminism
About this talk
Blogger Courtney Martin examines the perennially loaded word "feminism" in this personal and heartfelt talk. She talks through the three essential paradoxes of her generation's quest to define the term for themselves.
Stephen Colbert continues love affair with iPad
You’ll recall Mr. Colbert was given one of the first iPads to pull out of his suit at last year’s Grammy’s. He subsequently took ownership of the iPad suit pocket. I’m sure this isn’t the last we’ve heard from him. International/Flashless users, talk to Comedy Central.
Video – 9/11 Experiments: The Great Thermate Debate
You can see this guy design and carry out a series of experiments that employs thermite to show how it can be made to cut steel beams.
Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
About this talk
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.
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