source: Fast Company
This was when a Beatles Fan and an Apple employee, Mike Evangelist requested Steve Jobs to pay a tribute to George Harrison.
What do Netflix, Zipcar, Mint.com, Nike+, Amazon, the Nintendo Wii, and the Apple iPhone all have in common? They all take advantage of four technologies that once were scarce and expensive but are now plentiful and cheap. These technologies can be combined in numerous ways, and we are just starting to see companies really taking advantage of the possibilities. These four technologies will have a disruptive impact on your business, almost regardless of which industry you’re in. The question is whether you will choose to adopt them before a competitor does.
What are the four technologies?
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Read MoreAsahi Kasei’s forthcoming 3-by-3-cm device is based on Sony’s FeliCa smart card technology, which is already in widespread use throughout Japan. Important medical information can be stored on the chip — blood type, allergies and existing conditions, for example — allowing paramedics and other hospital staff to access that information in an emergency. To do so, they need only tap their own FeliCa equipment against the consumer’s Asahi Kasei charm, and the data will appear on-screen in seconds. For very large files such as X-ray images, the device can provide links to the necessary data on external servers. Due within a year, the Asahi Kasei device will reportedly be priced at USD 25 per unit.
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Read MoreFor those of you that know me well, you know that I have terrible, horrible insomnia. In high school, I would go to sleep around 3am and then struggle to get up at 6:30 am. I would drink a dozen Mountain Dews everyday just to stay awake. In college, my schedule shifted further so that I was falling asleep around 6am and sleeping until 2pm.
It massively affected my life. I once slept through the finals of a doubles tennis tournament. My 4 alarm clocks and the repeated calls from my partner didn’t wake me up. I remember once, in college, having an important meeting scheduled for 8am. I had to stay up all night to ensure that I would be there. Because I was so nocturnal, I couldn’t take any morning classes. In 4 years of college, I took 1 class before noon. I probably missed 75% of the class sessions and barely passed. There were all sorts of fascinating classes that I would have loved to take but couldn’t because they weren’t afternoon classes.
And I really tried to fix it. I tried everything. I saw sleep doctors and spent the night in sleep labs. I tried melatonin, ambien, lunesta, cutting caffeine, exercising everyday, meditation, sleep rituals, etc. It was so tough.
And I’ve now, finally, 100% fixed it.