Check out Steve Greenberg presenting some of the best products of CES 2012
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Noah Tanaka, an inventor who is president of Cosmo Power, a Japanese engineering company, has created a temporary refuge for anyone who finds himself or herself in a tsunami or earth quake. A bright yellow globe four feet in diameter — picture a giant tennis ball — Noah is made of fiber-reinforced plastic that can withstand blows from a sledgehammer. Up to four people can fit inside the pod, which automatically rights itself in water and can survive a drop of 33 feet. Mr. Tanaka designed his pod so people can get inside and be carried along by the water for one or two hours, until help arrives. Small air ducts make it possible to breathe, and there is a small window to see outside. The product is already on the market — it retails for about $3,800. Tanaka says he has orders from Japanese customers for more than 1,000 pods, some of which have already been delivered. This story originally apears in The New York Times. Read the full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/inventions-offer-tools-to-endure-future-disasters.html This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. If you’ve ever returned from a business trip with a stack of business cards, you’ve no doubt wondered — as you’re manually typing in all those names, phone numbers and email addresses — if there’s a better way. It turns out there are lots of better ways. Too many, in fact, and that’s the problem. The lack of a standard means that a great solution like the Bump app will only work if the person you’re trying to link up with has the app, not to mention an iPhone or Android-based smartphone. You could, of course, use your phone’s camera to take a picture of the other person’s business card, but that would still require that he or she has a business card in the first place. And after you do that, you’ll still have to manually enter the information anyway. In November, LinkedIn announced an alternative that avoids the lack-of-a-standard conundrum by essentially digitizing an analog card. As the video below outlines, the CardMunch iPhone app works by capturing the image of a business card, recognizing it and then saving it on your phone as a contact. In another nice perk, LinkedIn also integrates that person’s information from his or her profile on the network. Read more at Mashable
Lane-keeping technology, soon to be available in more cars, is intended to keep vehicles from drifting across lane markers, but it is suited only for certain road conditions. http://nyti.ms/wwJayh Get to know the host of “7 Minutes in Heaven.” http://nyti.ms/yBC5com Mike O’Brien is what might be called Web nouveau: he’s earnest rather than snarky and seems genuinely baffled by meme culture. Yet O’Brien, who didn’t even have a Twitter account until September, has become famous — at least on the Internet — as the host of “7 Minutes in Heaven,” an extremely funny Web show based on the adolescent make-out game
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Check out this story from VentureBeat: The view from CES: The top 10 trends in technology for 2012 Among the 153,000 attendees at the show in Las Vegas last week were five VentureBeat staffers who were sniffing out the big trends. This story is our list of the most evident trends among the rows and rows of gadgets at CES. The convention is like a step into the future, with many companies showing off the TVs, smartphones, computers and tablets that they will be bringing to market in the coming months. When you see the same kind of product over and over again, that’s a good sign that it will be dominating the tech headlines in the near future. For rest of story, click here: http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/18/the-view-from-ces-the-top-trends-in-technology-for-2012/ Check out the story on All Things Digital about Apple’s Education Event in NYC today… Apple Unveils iPad Textbook Plan Brrrrr
For a wrap up of some of the cool gadgets I found at CES2012 check out
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