Mike Jones, serial entrepreneur, investor and most recently, founder of the new LA technology studio, Science, joined us at the DCWEEK Opening Keynotes last week. Tech Cocktail’s own Jen Consalvo interviewed Jones, discussing his early entrepreneurial days, his success with Userplane which he sold to AOL, and his challenges with MySpace which was eventually sold to…
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At the Internationale FunkAusstellung (IFA) conference in Berlin, Germany, Haier and NeuroSky unveiled the Haier Cloud Smart TV with the ability for users to interact with their TV using their brains. The TV is scheduled to be released in October of this year in China; the price is yet to be determined. Rather than using…
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A satellite costs roughly $299,938,500 more than a Prius and yet unlike the Prius it can’t roll up to a gas station when it runs low on fuel. In fact, satellites are rendered useless when their fuel tanks read empty. When they run out of fuel, these technological marvels convert to $300 million worth of…
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Space exploration has been nearly an untapped market by entrepreneurs. This could be due to higher costs associated with the industry but that is about to change. Moon Express, or MoonEx, a Silicon Valley-based, privately funded lunar transportation and data services company, has made it a mission to get back to the moon looking to explore…
Read MoreThe sun.. for me it’s a love hate relationship. On one hand we need it for warmth and I love being in the sun, but on the other hand it is a giant fire ball that spews radiation towards Earth. Today, NASA reported that the sun had the largest solar flare in four years that…
Read MoreThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator which has been in the works for close to twenty years has just produced a ‘mini-Big Bang’. This is both amazing and a tad concerning at the same time as this experiment is creating some Sun-like temperatures inside the closed underground environment. We…
Read MoreOne of the reasons we love bringing TECH cocktail to Champaign is the broad spectrum of products we get to learn about and help showcase that we just don’t see anywhere else. On occasion, we all need to leave the world of Web apps and see what other innovations are out there to inspire. One…
Read MoreAre you interested in Science and want to get involved in some cool stuff? Or are you a researcher and need to connect with people to help make your research better? Well either way SocialSci is for you. SocialSci is a Boston based startup thats aims to help Scientific research experiments reach that next level….
Read MoreJust in time for the kick-off of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics we can explore this photo of Banff (above) and many others thanks to the orbiting path of International Space Station and Astronaut Souichi Noguchi. Souichi armed with has been tweeting out photos via his TwitPic from space. Some of the images are pretty…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More