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Entries for 2012

• December 28, 2012 Let There Be (LED) Light on New Year’s Eve! We’re a New York, NY company, so it isn’t a surprise that we’re huge fans of the New Year’s Eve Ball drop in Times Square. We aren’t alone: time and again, the annual event draws a standing crowd of roughly one million, with over a billion watching worldwide....
• December 27, 2012 The Surprisingly Ancient History (When It Comes to Computers) of the Touchscreen There’s a keystone in every great invention Once upon a time, believe it or not, there was a land before Apple, Inc. and iPads, iPhones, Androids and Kindles. In that age, there was a man – a scientist – from Kentucky – named Dr....
• November 29, 2012 How One Man Launched a Global Video Revolution Video Cameras and their Electronics Life before video cameras embedded into a smartphone seems far removed as we go about our daily lives. We get instant videos and pictures sent to our phones, posted on Facebook, and even downloaded to our computers....
• November 12, 2012 Saluting Our Country’s Veterans: the Invention of Powered Prosthesis There’s a keystone in every great invention For thousands of years, artificial limbs have played a storied role in human history – and much of that role has been in relation to soldiers wounded on the battlefield....
• November 5, 2012 X-Rays: the Century-Long History of Your Trip to the Dentist There’s a keystone in every great invention What if – whenever you next went to the dentist– there weren’t any X-ray machines to help scan for residual tooth decay? Quite simply, you wouldn’t have modern civilization....
• October 17, 2012 How a Small Magnetic Pickup on a Hawaiian Guitar Revolutionized 20th Century Music There’s a keystone in every great invention Can you picture a world without Elvis, The Beatles, The Who, Van Halen or Aerosmith? Not the easiest thing to do, right? Think again....