The jacket has adaptive insulation pockets, which allow the wearer to adjust the temperature of the jacket in changing weather.

If your health records are online, they can theoretically be accessed by any hospital anywhere in the world, which could save your life, if you’re traveling and have a health emergency.  My view is that the privacy concern will eventually be eradicated, in much the same way people are no longer extremely concerned about online payments and banking, as they were in the early days of the internet, which I know first hand by spending a summer researching online banking and online bill pay features for QuickBooks in 1995.

Check out the book here. 

Check out this decontamination point at the Maun airport in Botswana. Imagine in the future airport screenings for biological agents, as well as for viruses like SARS and bird flu, to contain epidemics, and reduce the threat of bio-terror.

PlantSense, which just raised a $3.5 million first round, makes soil sensors that collect data about the soil, and then makes suggestions for what you can grow.

Gets kids off the couch and play outside!

a rotating cabin is an interesting idea. I still like the idea of having an interchangeable cabin on a standard platform, so one day I can drive an SUV, and the next day, I can drive a convertible.   

There should be urgency around A) global warming and B) the economy and C) geo-political reasons, including reducing the power of the Hahmoud Ahmadinejad  (Iran generates $60 billion a year in oil revenue) and Hugo Chavez (Venuzuela generates perhaps $55 billion in oil revenue) regimes.The Manhattan Project cost $24 billion in 2008 dollars. 

Every president since Nixon has advocated trade and engagement with China, with the prevailing belief that engagement will lead to democracy.

Why then do we have a different policy towards Cuba?

Does the Bush/McCain doctrine of isolating and closing channels of communication with our enemies (Iran, North Korea etc.) have any basis in psychological theory, as a valid mechanism to achieve our objectives?

“Negotiating with terrorists” is different than having dialogue to defuse anger and incentivize change, and does not necessarily connote weakness. A large stick can and should be wielded.

As the Tao says,

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are brittle and dry.

Plants are born tender and pliant;

dead, they are brittle and dry. 

Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.

Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.

The hard and stiff will be broken.

The soft and supple will prevail.

Also, by calling our involvement in Iraq a “War,” we are empowering our enemies.  Acts of terror and violence against peace, freedom and democracy should not be legitimized by the language of war. 

wow, this is powerful: