Margie Pritchard
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In the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Energy poured money into creating a miraculous technology: converting sunlight into electricity. Solar energy was a pipe dream, far too expensive and unreliable to be considered. Solar power installations cost 80% less today than a decade ago. Alternative energy (like wind and solar) is now cheaper than conventional…
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Listen now: https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/117903/the-bob-pritchard-show-october-8th-2019 SHOW TITLE: Loo cameras on airplanes My guest Lone Fønss Schrøder has vast experience ranging from large-cap companies in aviation, oil & gas and shipping to capital markets. Lone is also co-founder of fintech company Cashworks, Vice Chairman of Volvo Cars, and a Director at IKEA.
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Ana Gavia, 26, never intended to become a full-time entrepreneur. Looking for a way to make money while studying podiatric medicine at La Trobe University in Australia, she decided to start a side hustle selling a bathing suit she designed on the internet. She’d grown up on a coastal beach town and had always had…
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Labs are currently competing to develop brain implants. Advances in cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging technologies have started to provide us with the ability to interface directly with the human brain. Researchers have used these technologies to build brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), communication systems that do not depend on the brain’s normal output pathways of peripheral nerves…
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Attention airline bathroom loiterers: The next generation of Airbus aircraft will track how long you spend in the loo. It’s all part of an effort to make commercial cabins a digitally aware domain. The program is Airbus’s bid to raise the Internet of Things — that buzz-phrase for connected household gadgets—to cruising altitude. The Airbus Connected Experience…