For Facebook fanatics, we’ve launched Pop!Cast TV — an easy way to add clips of 90 creative visionaries to your Facebook profile for you to peruse in between SuperPoking your virtual pals and friending your high school crushes.
If you’re not coming to Pop!Tech this year, but still want to be involved in the great discussions [...]

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I’ve been following Erik Hersman’s (known on Twitter as @whiteafrican) work for a while. Erik is the co-founder of Ushadihi, a company that’s developing a platform for crowdsourcing crisis information in Africa via SMS. He also runs two excellent blogs about technology and enterpreneurship in Africa: afrigadget.com and whiteafrican.com. I was excited to learn that [...]

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2008 seems to be the year of Technology Going Good. Bill Gates’ January speech at the World Economic Forum was his last addressing this group as a full-time employee of Microsoft. There, he made a boldly optimistic statement regarding the future of tech:
We are at the start of a technology-driven revolution in what people will [...]

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You may not be able to make a quilt, but your DNA can. Artist Beverly St. Clair developed a way to translate genetic information into a visual pattern language that she then uses for quilt designs. A psychiatrist and a long-time quilter, St. Clair was inspired to create her “genome quilts” after attending a lecture [...]

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Technology is impacting the field of medicine in profound ways. Advances in medical technologies and approach are of special interest to Pop!Tech, and as such, we’ve invited a number of people working in these fields to attend this year’s event.
Dr. Jay Parkinson is the founder of Hello Health, a “Health 2.0” company that’s marketing health [...]

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We at Pop!Tech are excited to announce the 2008 Pop!Tech “Big Bet” Social Innovation Fellows program, which is designed to help some of the world’s most inspiring, up-and-coming change agents take their social innovations to scale.  One of the ways we’ll help make this happen is by putting the Fellows through an intensive, four-day “boot [...]

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abecedarium:NYC is an online project that combines movie clips, audio tracks, animation, maps and written words in order to give small glimpses of life in the Big Apple. With 24 English words and phrases as a starting point (entries include “elutriate”, “biliomancy” and “umbel”) the website places you on a map of a lesser-known New [...]

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Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has introduced a vastly different approach to addressing climate change. Rather than scheming ways to stave off the apparently inevitable, he designed floating, disaster-ready cities able to safely house 50,000 future victims of impending ecological disaster.
The self-sustaining “Lilypad” city is described by its creator as a true amphibian: half-aquatic and half-terrestrial, [...]

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If you’ve ever wondered how a modern-day Shakespeare’s tweets would read, or what Emily Dickinson’s Flickr stream might have looked like, you may enjoy reading George Orwell’s new blog: the Orwell Diaries.
Published by The Orwell Prize, Britain’s esteemed prize for political writing, the blog is based on Orwell’s diary from August 9th, 1938 through October [...]

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ReWalk, a newly-invented robotic suit, allows paralyzed persons to stand, climb stairs, and walk. Using a design based on the exoskeleton of a crab, the suit allows people paralyzed from the waist down to move using crutches and changes to their center of gravity or upper body movements.
Engineer Amit Goffer, the founder of Argo Medical [...]

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