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| How Starbucks’ dominance could one day be threatened |  |
| Make no mistake about it, Starbucks is an innovation powerhouse. The company routinely ranks among the most innovative companies in the nation and continually finds new ways to surprise and delight its customers. Most recently, Starbucks has unveiled a new mobile order and pay option, a new high-end coffee shop concept, and a new small-batch subscription … Read full article » |
| What it’s like to have a robot deliver toothpaste to your hotel room | |
| In August the Aloft Hotel in Cupertino, Calif. began making deliveries to guests’ rooms with a robot. The program has gone well enough that they’ve expanded and now have another Botlr robot operating in their hotel in Newark, Calif. They expect to roll out more robots to Aloft Hotels this year and beyond. You can … Read full article » |
| Here’s why patents are innovation’s worst enemy |  |
| The Founding Fathers of the United States considered intellectual property so important that they gave it a special place in the Constitution: “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” The framers of the U.S. Constitution … Read full article » |
| Why Mexico City air traffic controllers were happy to have a drone flying around their airport |  |
| Drones and airports are the water and oil of the aviation world. While there’s intense debate over how restrictive emerging drone rules should be, you’d be hard pressed to find someone not in favor of restricting the air space around airports. If a drone flew into a jet engine it might disable it, resulting in … Read full article » |
| 4 lessons from a viral timelapse video of Austria |  |
| On Monday, film students Thomas Pocksteiner and Peter Jablonowski posted a three-minute video of Austria to YouTube. They didn’t even promote it, but by Tuesday it already had over 650,000 views. Here’s how they created something so amazing: 1. Obsess over just a few seconds of video The duo moved their camera 150 times to get this … Read full article » |
| The one Chinese innovation that could change the way we think about money |  |
| The new China International Payments System (CIPS), which is set to debut before the end of 2015, has been described as a “worldwide payments superhighway for the yuan.” What the creation of such a system means in the short-term is that the Chinese currency (officially known as the renminbi) has the potential to become a … Read full article » |
| How driving the latest Tesla makes D.C.’s hellish traffic almost tolerable |  |
| Driving in the Washington area ranks somewhere between the joy of a root canal and being waterboarded. The city has been named the most congested metropolitan area in the United States. Many of us build our lives around this unavoidable truth. We move to neighborhoods where we can walk, bike or take public transportation to … Read full article » |
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