American adults will spend on average nearly $800 on gifts this holiday season according to a Gallup poll . That’s a decent chunk of change to express our affection, gratitude or commitment to our loved ones, friends and co-workers. But in this era of entrepreneurial innovation why has the [...] Click here to view original web page at...

Dec 12, 2013

In 2011, Diane Meyer ‘s brother was hit by a car. His skull smashed in the accident, Meyer’s brother needed to have a steel plate put in; even after the surgery, he was in a coma for several weeks. As Meyer worried about her brother, she looked through old [...] Click here to view original web page at feedproxy.google.com Share...

Dec 12, 2013

Just this week, the crowdsourced design site Threadless released a new line of officially licensed The Simpsons T-shirts . Designed by fans, the products are a first for Fox, a company that’s self-admittedly litigious in protecting the Simpsons IP. But the move is right in line with what Peter [...] Click here to view original web page at...

Dec 12, 2013

Fisher-Price’s latest product is a bouncy seat for babies that is designed to put an iPad a foot away from a newborn’s face. This has parents, doctors and child advocates hopping mad: An Internet petition to remove the Apptivity Seat from market has already garnered more than 5,000 signatures [...] Click here to view original web page at...

Dec 12, 2013

Studies say up to a quarter of Americans don’t get enough sleep, and there’s no shortage of articles about how to function better with power naps and elaborate “ polyphasic ” sleep-and-wake cycles. But without actually spending the night in a sleep lab, it’s hard to actually measure how [...] Click here to view original web page...

Dec 12, 2013

Socrates once feared that technology would corrupt human memory. Quaint as it sounds today, he was worried about a form of communication called writing. The more easily people could access something in a document, he reasoned, the less inclined they’d be to remember it. The great philosopher’s point rings [...] Click here to view original web page...