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This graphic was created by information designer Anna Vital, read her  full article here . Copyright  Funders and Founders . Step by Step: How Elon Musk Built His Empire (by Anna Vital) “The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.”   – Peter Thiel in “Zero to One” In the book   Zero to One , prominent entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shares his vision on what it takes to create an extraordinary company.   Specifically, Thiel believes that instead of making incremental upgrades to an existing product or service, a company must aim to do something completely new to avoid ruthless competition. While Thiel has worked with many impressive people over the years, Thiel points to Elon Musk as a particularly   succ...

Update: Sept 11, 2015 - My Ultimate Ears 600vi finally died to me. Actually, only one ear sort of died. I think the wire inside got cut so I can't hear music on the right side of the earphone unless I hold it a certain way. It's too bad. It's probably the earphone that lasted the longest for me. I had it for almost 2 years and used it daily. For CAD$79.99, it's not bad. I tried to look for a replacement, but I think Ultimate Ears has discontinued selling low end earphones and only see speakers and high end earphones on their website. Oh well, try to see what else is out there. I'm considering some other brands and see if I can find something as good as the UE 600vi. I just got myself the Logitech UE 600vi noise-isolating earphones yesterday. If you read by previous review on the Logitech UE 350vi , I mentioned that those earphones died on me when one ear lost all sound and I was looking for a replacement. After doing my research, I almost bought the Klipsch ...

From Sa Ngalan Ng Gobyerno Facebook Page . Air pollution is a threat to the environment and human health. According to the World Health Organization, 3 million people die from the effects of air pollution each year. This is three times the number of deaths associated with automobile accidents. Manila, Philippines, is one of the top five polluted cities in world, when it comes to air pollution. Air pollution claims 4,000 deaths in a year. In an effort to combat air pollution, the city is taking an innovative solution, Paint. The city launched the worlds first air cleaning public art project, on May 07, 2012. With the use of a special paint from Boysen, Called Boysen KNOxOUT, that is able to filter out nitrogen oxides (NOx), one of the principal air pollutants. The paint not only reduces air pollution, the city is applying it with a beautifying approach. Instead of just slathering the paint, they have commissioned curators and artists to do the paint job. Murals are painted along ...

Could your smartphone be the future of medicine? Meet Dr. Eric Topol who is creating new devices and apps to revolutionize medical care and screening using your smartphone.

ISS Commander Chris Hadfield shows us the fine points of manual digital hygiene in microgravity. A clean-handed astronaut is a happy astronaut. Credit: CSA

Cambridge, UK and Kingston, Canada - January 7, 2013 -- Watch out tablet lovers -- A flexible paper computer developed at Queen's University in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs will revolutionize the way people work with tablets and computers. The PaperTab tablet looks and feels just like a sheet of paper. However, it is fully interactive with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7" plastic display developed by Plastic Logic, a flexible touchscreen, and powered by the second generation Intel® Core i5 processor. Instead of using several apps or windows on a single display, users have ten or more interactive displays or "papertabs": one per app in use. Ryan Brotman, research scientist at Intel elaborates "We are actively exploring disruptive user experiences. the 'PaperTab' project, developed by the Human Media Lab at Queen's University and Plastic Logic, demonstrates innovative interactions powered by Intel core processors that could poten...

I just saw this video. If this is real, this could be life changing. The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo . THE SUPER SUPERCAPACITOR is a Finalist in the $200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition and is in the running to become the $100,000 Grand Prize Winner. It could also be named an Audience Favorite if it's among the ten that receives the most votes. If you love it, vote for it. Click on the VOTE button in the top right corner of the video player. Note that voting may not be available on all mobile platforms, and browser cookies must be enabled to vote. Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth. What he found was a new way to power the world. FULL CREDITS Director: Brian Golden Davis Producers: David Paul Meyer, Laura Lee, Brian Golden Davis Directors of Photography: Brian Golden Davis, David Paul Meyer Sound: David Paul Meyer Music Performed by: Falling Fall, S...

Ever wonder how your favorite TV shows can afford to shoot on locations all around the world? Do they look for a place nearby that looks similar to where they want to shoot? For example, Downtown Toronto looks similar to New York, but it's cheaper to shoot there than in New York so some TV shows that are set in New York actually shoot in Toronto. For example, the TV show X Files if any of you remember was shot entirely in Vancouver, Canada and around Vancouver even though the scenes where supposed to be all over the United States. However, TV shows now shoots are set at all around the world specially action or spy series like "24". So how can they afford to shoot on location and still keep the series schedule? Well, the answer is, they shoot a lot of green screen. I found this video showing how they use it on your favorite shows. It's really interesting to learn.

Google Street View continues to impress. It has now brought underwater imagery to Google Street View. Here are some samples of what you can see. This is Apo Island, Philippines View Larger Map Heron Island, Australia View Larger Map Sunset at the Great Barrier Reef. View Larger Map Beautiful isn't it? No, Google didn't drive their car underwater, they got their images from Catlin Seaview Survey .

I love science and technology. Here's a new robot earthworm developed by MIT. When perfected, it has the potential applications to be use for medical science. It creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each wave of contractions. Snails and sea cucumbers also use this mechanism, called peristalsis, to get around, and our own gastrointestinal tracts operate by a similar action, squeezing muscles along the esophagus to push food to the stomach.

The Oppo Finder currently holds the title of the world's thinnest smartphone. Smaller than the Galaxy S III and iPhone 4S. However, just because it's thin, doesn't mean it's fragile. Watch this video demo where they use the Oppo Finder to hammer a nail into a wooden board...using the screen.

Excited to see the future of that flexible glass.

Two girls created a soccer ball that charges a generator when you kick it. Great innovation for third world countries.

Carter Oosterhouse takes a peak inside a one-of-a-kind garage with an incredible entrance! From Y! Tech . When software mogul Tom Gonzalez sold his company and bought a luxurious estate on Lake Tahoe, he needed a place to keep his massive collection of cars, trucks, and motorcycles. So, he sunk part of his fortune into building a garage larger than most homes, complete with a huge underground bay capable of holding up to 40 cars. While the collection of never-ridden motorcycles and high-end exotic sports cars he's assembled is impressive, they're overshadowed by the most impressive feature of the garage: a gigantic elevator used to access the subterranean area. Powered by hydraulics, the elevator is large enough to fit three cars end to end, and strong enough to lift them with an RV parked on top. It uses 800 gallons of hydraulic fluid and costs Gonzalez $25 in electricity each time it's raised and lowered. In the accompanying video from HGTV's Million Dollar Ro...

If you love Star Trek, you'll love this. Dr. Peter Jansen has developed a device that is modeled after the Tricorder. He began his work in 2007 and he aims to make it easy for others to reproduce his designs. He has full schematics on his website and they are available under TAPR non-commercial hardware license. The Mark 2 version runs on Debian Linux and the underlying source code is available under GPL. The tricorder measures temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, magnetic fields, color, ambient light level, GPS location and distance to surface. Check out this amazing device on this video.

A taxi dispatching system in the Philippines.

It's amazing what we can possible see in our future. Just a few years ago, nobody would have imagined a smartphone like the iPhone. Now, nobody can imagine a world without a smartphone. What does the future bring? Here's a concept by Corning glass of what they envision a future could be with smart glass technologies.

Walt Mossberg's review of a new app and service that brings the full, Windows versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the iPad, free of charge.

Samsung's Transparent Window got a lot of attention at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Watch this video to find out why! They say you can use this to check your Twitter account, do your homework and check recipes. While this technology is cool, I don't think I want to do my homework standing up facing the window or go to my window to check my recipe while I'm cooking. Other than the novelty of it, I don't find any practical use for this unless you can find a way to incorporate this to the design of your home and not as part of a window. It would probably work great as a part of a partition wall or maybe a smaller size to be placed on a fridge or bathroom mirror. But I still want this for Christmas!

There's a new camera in town, this camera allows you to shoot now, focus later. Mountain View, California-based startup called Lytro unveiled its new light-field camera. According to the Lytro website. "Lytro lets you take pictures like never before. Unlike a conventional camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro camera captures the entire light field, which is all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space. Capture everything - instantly. Capture living pictures with the press of a single button. By instantly capturing complete light field data, the Lytro gives you capabilities you've never had in a regular camera. Focus after the fact. Since you'll capture the color, intensity, and direction of all the light, you can experience the first major light field capability - focusing after the fact. Focus and re-focus, anywhere in the picture. You can refocus your pictures at anytime, after the fact. And focusing after the ...