• Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Flesh Into An LCD: Tattoo interface controlled by blood, looks similar to a full LCD screen, inside your skin.
• Eco-Friendly Water Cube Opens in Beijing: Four years in the making, the “Water Cube” is the Olympic pool resembling a large rectangle of beautifully blown bubbles.
• The Nasal Red Bull for Emotions (Not Cocaine): A newly synthesized hormone called Oxytocin. It’s your golden ticket into the cool group. The naturally occurring hormone may help facilitate social bonding.
• A Home So Energy Efficient It Pays You: The Lighthouse is not only carbon neutral and zero-emission, it pays you to live in it by feeding electricity back to the grid.
• Submarine Glider Fueled Only by Oceans Heat: An underwater vehicle that has traversed along the Virgin Island Basin 20 times, sometimes at depths reaching 2.5 miles deep, with no need to recharge.

Make sure to check out these alternative energy technologies of the future, where the article Cargo Ship Propelled by… A Kite was featured.

• Grow Your Skin Back, Ch-ch-ch-chia!: Skin grafts are things of the past. Grow skin in the lab and replace it anywhere on your body without scarring.
• Minority Report’s Computer of the Future, Today: Intuitive interface uses an infrared camera to capture your movements and gestures to the screen in real time, just like Tom Cruise in Minority Report.
• Screw the Pump: The 150 MPG Extreme Hybrid: Who likes paying $3 a gallon? Answer: no one. Least of all the producers of the new Extreme Hybrid SUV, AFS Trinity.
• Fantasy Football Just Got Real: Who needs fantasy leagues when you can just buy the team outright? Twenty-six thousand fans pitched in $70.50 each. That price bought them a place in history as the first online community to both own and manage a professional sports team.
• Music 2.0, SellaBand Innovates the Industry: SellaBand is bridging the gap between starving artist and up-and-coming star by facilitating piecemeal purchases of bands by the internet community.

• Hoverboards, Get ‘Em While They’re Hot: Hoverboards coming soon. Scientists figured out a way to finally make it happen. Soon frictionless nanomachines will having moving parts below your feet to propel you as far away from Biff as your heart desires.
• Robots Get So Small They Can Fit in Arteries: This little crab-like device was designed to release a chemical that will immediately clear obstructions to the heart. This is just the first step in a succession of advances that will change medical and human history.
• House of the Future Flexes in its Off-Grid Glory: It’s the self-sustaining home of the future, on steroids. And all along you thought going green was for design challenged weenies?
• Scan Your DNA to Find Out What Makes You Tick: Scan your genetic code to find out how you inherited talents and traits. A way to see what diseases you are predisposed to.
• Underwater Hotel: Sleeping with the Fishes: The first underwater hotel to open in Dubai. The Hydropolis will feature 220 suites, restaurants and bars, a grand ballroom, shopping mall, a cosmetic surgery clinic, and a marine biology lab.

• House of the Future Flexes in its Off-Grid Glory: It’s the self-sustaining home of the future, on steroids. And all along you thought going green was for design challenged weenies?
• Flying Dragonfly Spies Go Everywhere Insects Can: Spy camera that is as small as an actual dragonfly. This self-stabilizing marvel can fly 30mph for 15 minutes, all just to watch you in the shower.
• Scan Your DNA to Find Out What Makes You Tick: Scan your genetic code to find out how you inherited talents and traits. A way to see what diseases you are predisposed to.
• 3D Tattoo Imaging is the Next Evolution: A CG programmer designed a machine that allows you to see a 2D tattoo design on your body before you get inked.
• Lending Person-to-Person Helps You Beat the S&P: Marketplace where people come together as borrowers and lenders. Taking banks out of the equation and humanizing finance.

• Isengard Desert Tower Will Make Its Own Energy: The Burj Al-Taqa Energy Tower in the Middle East will produce zero emissions by generating all its power from the sun, wind and water.
• Suzuki Unveils the Jetsons Car Inside a Car: The next generation in fuel efficiency and sustainable mobility, a pod inside a larger vehicle. Better parking, rides inside buildings and on sidewalks while still going long distances.
• Scientist Poised to Create the First Artificial Life: Dr. Craig Ventre is about to create the first artificial life form on Earth. Does it bother you that individuals may legally own several types of living species?
• Microlending: Earn Money while Ending Poverty: How microloans from $50-$500 are being paid back 98% of the time while alleviating global poverty to those entrepreneurs who don’t want handouts.
• Cheating Death Part II: Uploading Your Brain: The viability and concerns of accelerating human evolution in order to fuse man and machine.

Kate had an interesting article about the NYC Condom Campaign. David talked about the importance of mascot branding while Jay pointed out logo branding. Zath covers all of my TV and gaming needs while Rod always has interesting takes on innovation.

• Bionic Legs Bring You One Step Closer to Robocop: Leg exoskeleton that transfers the weight of a backpack directly into the ground, eventually to be used to run without being tired.
• Are We Playing God with Human-Animal Embryos?: The scientific community counters that the hybrids will allow them to discover treatments which could lead to a cure for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
• Internet Ads Surpass Radio for the First Time: Radio isn’t dead, but it is dated and lacking innovation. How they can come back from the defeat.
• The Fashion Store of Tomorrow Uses Smart Chips: A clothing company plans to reinvent the shopping experience by using smart chips to help buyers make smart decisions throughout the store.
• Charging You to Use Your Credit Card is Illegal: Surcharges and minimum purchases to use your credit card are illegal. Get your money back and help stop this practice.

• Hoverboards, Get ‘Em While They’re Hot: Hoverboards coming soon. Scientists figured out a way to finally make it happen. Soon frictionless nanomachines will having moving parts below your feet to propel you as far away from Biff as your heart desires.
• Erasable Tattoo Ink: A new ink that still lasts a lifetime, yet can be removed in one fell swoop of a laser. Looks like you can finally have your cake and eat it too.
• Building Noah’s Ark in Space: The plan is to create Noah’s ark in space. “In the event of a global catastrophe, the ARC facilities will be prepared to reintroduce lost technology, art, history, crops, livestock, and, if necessary, even human beings to the Earth.”
• How YOU Can Cheat Death: So you want to know how to cheat death but don’t know if your ready to be frozen alive?
• Top 10 Innovative Countries: USA About to Fall?: The USA is holding on by its fingernails as the 3rd most innovative country on earth. Why we are not focused on core capacities against our true competitors and how we can get back on track.