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Mobile Money Has Lifted 200,000 Kenyan Families Out of Poverty
2% of Kenyan households have been lifted out of poverty thanks to a payment and money transfer system that works on old phones, with SMS text messaging.
Free Short Stories Offered at Train Station Vending Machines
Next time you're awaiting a train by scrolling through your Twitter feed, imagine if you could print out a free short story instead.
This Cheap, Portable Solar Panel Will Be the iPad of Renewables
These new sustainable electric devices are being called real game-changers for a more accessible solar market.
Children’s Hospital Uses ‘Pokemon GO’ to Get Patients Excited and Out of Bed (WATCH)
A hospital is using the new Pokemon GO craze to get child patients out of bed and into the hallways for some fun time...
6 Reasons to Be Happy the New Pokemon App is Taking Over the Streets
Since the release of Pokémon GO for smartphones Thursday, the augmented reality game, which uses GPS to display characters roaming in your real world,...
Baltimore Pays Teens to Shovel Snow for Elderly and Disabled
Armed with a shovel and a smartphone app, hundreds of young people fanned out across Baltimore, Maryland in the wake of last weekend’s winter...
Solar-Powered Retreat in New Zealand Built For Only $75,000
There is a gleaming white artificial tree house floating over Linton, New Zealand. It's called the SkySphere, and its designer, Jono Williams, put it...
Dr. Saves Baby’s Life With $20 Google Cardboard Virtual Reality Glasses
Doctors were able to perform life saving heart surgery on a four-month-old girl thanks to a smartphone and a cardboard box.
Teegan Lexcen was born...
Jon Stewart Signs HBO Deal to Stream Commentary on Current Events
Jon Stewart’s quiet retirement as a gentleman farmer didn’t last long.
Just three months after leaving “The Daily Show,” the comedian and commentator has signed...
Man Aims to Reunite 100 Homeless Folks With Families, to Honor His Uncle
This gentleman is on a mission to reunite 100 homeless people with their families as a memorial to his “Uncle Mark,” a man who spent 30...
Hi-Tech Mouthguard Flags Concussion to Protect Athlete’s Brain
A high-tech mouthguard promises to be a game changer for treating and preventing sports-related concussions.
FITGuard, a device that alerts coaches immediately if a player...
Toxic Algae Could Power “Super Batteries” of Tomorrow
Alga blooms may have earned a bad reputation underwater, but above ground, they could rise to power in a very noble way.
Below the surface,...
College Student’s Device Can Turn Polluted Air into Printer Ink
This device doesn’t just suck soot out of the air—it repurposes the stuff as printer toner.
Anirudh Sharma, co-leader of a student-run science lab at...
A Safety App That Lets Friends Digitally Walk You Home at Night
You’ll never walk home alone again with this app on your smartphone.
The Companion app connects you with friends to let them keep a virtual...
Entire Nation of Sri Lanka Will Soon Get Internet Access Thanks to Google
The entire island nation of Sri Lanka is about to be blanketed with Internet service — all of it beamed from balloons – thanks to a...
Beaming Education From Space to World’s Poorest, Remote Places
A company wants to build virtual libraries in places the Internet doesn’t reach by blanketing the earth with data beamed from satellites.
More than four...
Kids Who Text on the Go Now Have Designated Walking Lane at University
In an effort to accommodate those who just can’t tear themselves away from their smartphones as they walk around campus, Utah Valley University has...
Service Turns Your Social Media Posts into Handwritten Notes for Troops
Reconciling new-age social media with old-school tradition, a new service turns Tweets into snail mail for American Military service members around the world.
Since smartphones are...
Innovative Crowdsourcing of Tweets, Phones Can Give Early Warnings of Quakes, Floods
Your smartphone could save your life before disaster strikes. Researchers are turning smartphones and social media into early warning systems for earthquakes and floods.
In...
Teen Invents Device to Detect Alzheimer’s Patient Wandering at Night
15-year-old Kenneth Shinozuka, whose grandfather has advanced Alzheimer's, has invented a pressure sensor that when worn on the bottom of the foot or with...