Innovation, 2011

They’re mobile devices and not phones anymore. Microsoft’s Kinetic takes the Nintendo Wii to the next level with a hands free gaming device. An inventor in Japan is designing a high speed train that doesn’t have to stop to pick up or let off passenger For the leaping impaired, Concept 1 has designed a new basketball shoe that adds 4 inches to a basketball players vertical leap, even giving guys like me hope that someday I may be able to...

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Create Happiness

(http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10296/1097382-110.stm). It was perhaps not too surprising then when I came upon an interview about research work done by  Michael Norton a Harvard business school professor and some colleagues from the University of British Columbia. Their studies show that (at least) one path to happiness is not about spending money but by giving it away. They found that in measuring happiness, if an individuals income doubled, their happiness measure only increased by 7%. But to further test their ideas, they...

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