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Welcome to the unwired world - internet connectivity, voice, and now, energy. Never stop questioning what's possible.

"Marin Soljačić couldn't sleep. The problem was his wife's Nokia cell phone. The tyrannical device beeped on the bedside table when it needed to be plugged in. It could not be disabled.

Instead of taking a hammer to the phone, Soljačić marveled at the fact that this device, and billions of others like it, was sitting a few feet away from all the electricity it could ever need. Why couldn't it receive power wirelessly, just as laptops get Wi-Fi? "

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The short summary of this paper is that multi-tasking will kill you. Or at least your productivity. "Multi-tasking is bad"

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Interesting AP article, found via WIRED syndication. MIT's OpenCourseWare has been around since 2001, and separating learning/teaching from the credentials of "going to MIT" seems to have done the trick. Driving up the "brand" while leaving revenue alone,

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links to PDF versions of his books, papers, etc. Good resources on Innovation.

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