Tio by Tim Holley is an award winning light switch system to help children save energy.
Tio is a wall mounted switch that glows green if the energy consumption meter is not going high with the wastage of electricity when not in use. When the household lights are on for short time, Tio is green [...]

If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money as possible? Stanford technology venture program, Executive Director Tina Seelig discusses the query and how budding entrepreneurs responded. [via]
Checkout the responses in the following video . Very interesting!

A cool video on the history of communication. [via]

Signs is the 2009 Cannes Lions award winning short film about communication. Created by Publicis Mojo and @RadicalMedia. A must watch! Don’t miss it.

While the prevailing thinking is that art often imitates life, for Brazilian filmmaker and musician Jarbas Agnelli that statement also makes sense in reverse. After seeing a newspaper photograph depicting birds perched on power lines, Agnelli noticed a distinct resemblance to notes on stanza. Curious to know what type of underlying melody existed within the [...]

A Must watch video on the revolution of social media.

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Here is an interesting video of How to suck an egg into a glass bottle. No magic but basic science.

The matches in the bottle burn up the oxygen. This creates a negative pressure environment, or vacuum. The egg is sucked through the neck of the glass bottle. This is just one of the [...]

In the video above, David Merrill of MIT Media Lab demos Siftables.
Created by David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT Media Lab, Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. created by David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT Media LabThey act in concert to [...]

Packaging equations are changing. Yes, literally! Roots Run Deep, a Napa valley, California based winery is using an innovative approach to packaging and using chemistry equations of the wine-making process as product labels. Educated Guess Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is the winery’s first release and their flagship wine.
The label was designed to tell the [...]