Top News By Wired.com & Motley by Fool.com

From: Stewart Brand
Subject: [SALT] Making plastic even better (Susan Freinkel talk)
Date: May 24, 2012

“Plastic is so new, Freinkel began, that among all the objects preserved in the sunken Titanic, none are synthetic plastic, because there was hardly any available in 1912. Natural plastic, however, was a familiar material. Amber was popular. …

*A visit to Orhan Pamuk’s new museum — among other things.

http://observatory.designobserver.com/rickpoynor/feature/the-strange-afterlife-of-common-objects/34238/

(…)

“After my lecture, as I was about to set out in search of The Works, a French student approached me to mention a nearby museum called The Museum of Innocence, founded by the Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. It sounded marvelous and …

It’s only been three months since the Pentagon’s latest robot, one able to staple paperwork and answer phone calls with a single autonomous arm, showed off some of those amazing skills. Now, the freaky humanoid ‘bot is back. And this time, he has two arms. And a name.

The Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa had a surprise guest on Wednesday — one that had some people scratching their heads. At a black-tie dinner following the day’s panel discussions, product displays and tech demos, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived behind a phalanx of State Department and Special Operations Command security.

Dennis Woodside is a loyal Google soldier — and now he’s been selected by the search company to run its new hardware arm, Motorola Mobility. The rationale? Woodside knows advertising, and mobile advertising is a Google weak point.

When you think of mobile gaming, you probably imagine a game of Cut the Rope or Angry Birds — tapping, flicking, touching your device’s capacitive screen. But now there’s a new way to play: with your mind, using the Mindwave Mobile headset.

Daniel Clowes may not be quite as cranky as the vinyl-loving fan of old-time music in the film adaptation of his Ghost World comic book, but the artist and writer shares the character’s jaundiced view of newfangled technologies.

After 13 years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge opens.

At the moment it’s just an idea, but the Socialmatic camera proposes to turn the clocks back on the digital Instagram revolution by making a device that takes those cool, retro-looking photos and actually prints them on paper instantly.

From: Stewart Brand
Subject: [SALT] Making plastic even better (Susan Freinkel talk)
Date: May 24, 2012

“Plastic is so new, Freinkel began, that among all the objects preserved in the sunken Titanic, none are synthetic plastic, because there was hardly any available in 1912. Natural plastic, however, was a familiar material. Amber was popular. …

*A visit to Orhan Pamuk’s new museum — among other things.

http://observatory.designobserver.com/rickpoynor/feature/the-strange-afterlife-of-common-objects/34238/

(…)

“After my lecture, as I was about to set out in search of The Works, a French student approached me to mention a nearby museum called The Museum of Innocence, founded by the Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. It sounded marvelous and …

It’s only been three months since the Pentagon’s latest robot, one able to staple paperwork and answer phone calls with a single autonomous arm, showed off some of those amazing skills. Now, the freaky humanoid ‘bot is back. And this time, he has two arms. And a name.

The Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa had a surprise guest on Wednesday — one that had some people scratching their heads. At a black-tie dinner following the day’s panel discussions, product displays and tech demos, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived behind a phalanx of State Department and Special Operations Command security.

Dennis Woodside is a loyal Google soldier — and now he’s been selected by the search company to run its new hardware arm, Motorola Mobility. The rationale? Woodside knows advertising, and mobile advertising is a Google weak point.

When you think of mobile gaming, you probably imagine a game of Cut the Rope or Angry Birds — tapping, flicking, touching your device’s capacitive screen. But now there’s a new way to play: with your mind, using the Mindwave Mobile headset.

Daniel Clowes may not be quite as cranky as the vinyl-loving fan of old-time music in the film adaptation of his Ghost World comic book, but the artist and writer shares the character’s jaundiced view of newfangled technologies.

After 13 years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge opens.

At the moment it’s just an idea, but the Socialmatic camera proposes to turn the clocks back on the digital Instagram revolution by making a device that takes those cool, retro-looking photos and actually prints them on paper instantly.

These two metrics can tell you a lot.

What’s Warren Buffett Watching?

These two metrics can tell you a lot.

Is this meaningful? Or just another movement?

Winner of the Toy Wars

Where does the fertilizer maker go from here?

Wal-Mart Dividend – Slowing or Growing?

JP Morgan Insiders Were Selling in January

These two metrics can tell you a lot.

SINA posts a slight increase in first-quarter revenue as expenses shoot up.