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Carbon Origins takes their Apollo board to CES

Katie Wieser, Executive Editor January 4, 2015

Sometimes real innovation is what happens while in the process of solving a different problem. Carbon Origins, an aerospace startup founded in 2013, needed a way to log the data from their rocketry projects...

Everykey is a bracelet that automatically unlocks users password protected devices when they are in range.

Everykey looks towards their next goal as they head to CES 2015

Katie Wieser, Executive Editor January 3, 2015

Everykey is going back to Vegas. After intriguing several potential investors and consumers last year, the startup is returning to the International Consumer Electronics Show. Last January, the product...

Cleveland-based thermal imaging company looks for a new start at CES

Cleveland-based thermal imaging company looks for a new start at CES

Katie Wieser, Executive Editor January 3, 2015

We all know there are many obstacles to entrepreneurial success. But sometimes an obstacle can be a blessing in disguise. Hema Imaging has had a few setbacks. After going through changes in product expectations...

Skipping a Generation

Skipping a Generation

Joseph Satterfield, Web Editor December 28, 2014
Windows 10 looks to unify phones, tablets and PCs

Event38 continues path of problem solving through drone technology

Kathleen Wieser, Executive Editor December 26, 2014

Jeff Taylor’s path to entrepreneurship had an organic beginning. Using his own money and materials, Taylor was building drones from his home in San Diego and selling them online. While working at 3D...

IBM’s Watson Supercomputer Coming to Lerner College of Medicine

Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter November 16, 2012

IBM’s Watson, the computer that won Jeopardy in 2011, will be going to school at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Unlike its time on national television,...

Naked Mole Rats May Hold the Secret to Fighting Cancer

Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter November 9, 2012

The naked mole rat is a strange creature. Hairless, cold-blooded, and totally blind, mole rats live in the deserts of East Africa in colonies similar to those of ants. They have long puzzled biologists....

Link-State and ACM: a conference and an organization with big plans for CWRU Computer Science

Link-State and ACM: a conference and an organization with big plans for CWRU Computer Science

Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter November 2, 2012

It’s cold and raining at 9 a.m. on Oct. 27. Despite the weather, people are gathering at Nord Hall. They are here for the first Link-State, an annual conference held by the Case Western Reserve University...

Digital vs. Physical: The Changing Face of Technology

Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter October 19, 2012

Over the last few years, we have been digitizing everything we consume. Our books are eBooks, our music is saved as mp3s, and our movies and TV shows are streamed straight from Netflix. We have made this...

Tech Op-Ed: Remember Where Your Technology Comes From

Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter October 13, 2012

America loves technology. Just a few weeks ago, the iPhone 5 sold a record breaking 5 million units within three days of being released. Now that is over, everyone is starting to wonder about Windows 8,...

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