4:59am: The texture of their skin makes sharks almost immune to bacteria - a discovery that could open the door for human medical breakthroughs. More
Apr 23: A modern dance troupe is selling a novel product: The creative process.
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Dec 20: Fresh Paint, a complex finger-painting app that simulates oil on canvas, is Microsoft's best Windows 8 app.
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Dec 18: Like many of the high-profile projects it launched, Kickstarter is in some ways a victim of its own runaway success.
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Dec 11: Netflix says Google, Verizon FiOS and Comcast deliverer its streaming video service to customers the fastest.
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Dec 6: The metal band that famously sued Napster in 2000 is now a big fan of streaming service Spotify.
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Dec 3: A trio of MIT entrepreneurs who founded Sanergy have a novel plan for cleaning up sanitation-deprived global cities with Fresh Life toilets.
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Nov 30: Unmanned flying machines aren't just for tracking down bad guys anymore.
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Nov 27: Revenue chief Adam Bain helped make Twitter's bold advertising gamble a success.
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Nov 26: A small company that survived a biofuel boom-and-bust is poised to finally take off.
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Nov 19: The social TV space has been percolating for the past year or two, and its first big merger is here: startup GetGlue has been acquired by lesser known Viggle.
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Nov 7: Hurricane Sandy's New York City victims can get free housing through generous Airbnb hosts.
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Nov 6: Countries like Canada, Norway and Australia have adopted online voting for elections, but the battle rages on in the U.S.
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Nov 1: Anthony Wood turned Roku into a success. Now he may make the streaming-media devices his company is best known for obsolete.
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Oct 8: The same technology that powers the Kinect is slashing the price tag of high-end 3D scanning with Matterport.
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Sep 15: A new Kickstarter campaign promises to let us do everything from control our air conditioning, lock our doors, even get notifications when there's a leak in the basement from our smartphones.
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Aug 3: Proteus Digital Health created an ingestible sensor that monitors your medication intake.
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Aug 2: Startup Ubi has developed a software-and-Kinect combo that makes almost any surface interactive.
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Jul 25: Bodymetrics uses body-scanning technology to find the perfect jeans for any customer.
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May 22: A venture capitalist's quest to capture whale song gave rise to an innovative fleet of data-gathering robots.
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May 10: The Tupac Shakur hologram generated tons of buzz for Digital Domain Media Group, a company that's been creating visual effects for blockbuster movies for the last 20 years.
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Apr 19: A Utah startup is building an all-seeing motion-detection system that's poised to shake up the security market.
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Apr 4: A Boston-area startup connects artisans and shoppers through an online bazaar of one-of-a-kind items.
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Jan 26: The Xenex blasts light - literally - at life-threatening superbugs.
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Dec 29: Forest Whitaker's father-in-law is gaining fans among the mommy set with his new wheels-free baby walker.
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Dec 28: Angela Newnam, owner of Knock out! Smart Panties, used patented technology to create underwear that wicks away moisture and zaps odor.
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Dec 9: Sometimes one bright idea -- and a whole lot of work to implement it -- can reshape an entire market.
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Dec 6: Georgia Chopsticks, made in the Georgia town of Americus, are being exported to China as fast as they can make them.
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Nov 29: Codecademy's founders are looking to bring programming -- and the job skills it offers -- to the masses.
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Nov 9: A fast-growing small company is helping major retailers reinvent their shipping operations.
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Sep 23: It's the ultimate supply chain: Collect trash, compost it, and sell it back to the same businesses that threw it away.
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Sep 6: Most of the vendors trying to sell the Marines the latest in solar and fuel efficiency equipment are start-up firms.
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Aug 30: Airstream Innovations' inflatable, energy-saving greenhouse has a built-in breeze.
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Aug 11: A new wave of startups offers you an army of personal assistants.
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Aug 3: An engineering breakthrough could help energy-hogging data farms cut their power bills.
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Jul 18: Glori Energy says it can get 30% more crude out of a well by growing bacteria on the oil, but can they compete with the big boys?
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Jul 7: A Massachusetts entrepreneur's hardy, low-maintenance lawn helps keep you and your lawnmower off the grass.
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Jun 22: How three ex-Yahoo employees snagged $1.7 million to turn iPhone users into micro-contractors for large companies.
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Jun 16: The inventor of FireIce, a fire-suppressing gel, shows off its strength by torching his own hand.
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May 25: An accidentally invented peel-off polymer called DeconGel is helping with Japan's radioactive cleanup.
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May 16: A 25-year-old MIT dropout is trying for a digital dining revolution with E La Carte.
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Apr 29: Tired of circling the block? Streetline's sensors tell you when parking spaces are free and help cities conquer congestion.
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Apr 19: PixelOptics' high-tech lenses toggle between settings for distance vision and close-up reading
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Apr 14: Imagine an ad that stares back at you when you glance at it --crunching the data on your age, your face and who you're with.
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Apr 1: Animal, mineral or vehicle? Ford Motor Company's next supplier could be a fungus factory.
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Mar 22: Equipois' mechanical arms make heavy tools weightless -- an innovative leap forward that reduces industrial accidents.
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Mar 14: Foodspotting, one of SXSW's hit startups, wants to catalog all the best dishes in the world -- and where to find them.
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Feb 25: A cut-rate, simple and "coming soon" tablet took the Internet by storm - even though there's no evidence it actually exists.
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Feb 11: E-Fuel hooks drivers on homebrewed ethanol.
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Jan 24: A 3D food printer sounds like something out of Star Trek, but it's not out of this world. And in 5 years, it could be in your home.
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Dec 23: High-tech urban farming isn't just hip - it's profitable.
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Dec 8: An entrepreneur is taking on the scourge of deadly counterfeit drugs in the developing world.
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Nov 30: Willow Garage is betting millions on the future of personal robotics.
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Nov 9: A Colorado entrepreneur's quest to abolish hypodermics is taking hold in New Jersey, California and Brazil.
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Oct 25: Emily speeds to the rescue of distressed swimmers -- and turbocharges sales for the small company that created the robot.
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Oct 12: A scrappy startup is taking aim at PayPal from the behemoth's own backyard.
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Sep 14: Making a prototype? Silicon Valley's TechShop is the best garage you never had.
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Sep 10: Like Mint.com, a new website aims to take the pain out of accounting by making the data intuitive.
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Aug 18: How TapouT clothing dominates the toughest sport around.
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Aug 13: Runners have flocked to a new cult shoe brand -- and so have counterfeiters.
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Jul 23: Just Us Hens tends the flock when busy urbanites fly the coop.
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Jul 8: A wave of rural startups are fighting to keep outsourced labor inside U.S. borders.
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Jun 25: Pogoplug founder Daniel Putterman bootstrapped his way to a technology breakthrough.
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Jun 14: Need a cab in NYC? Sense Networks can predict where the next one will be.
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Jun 4: An Orlando entrepreneur is fighting hospital-borne infections with antimicrobial scrubs.
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May 28: Sports heroes, President Obama and half of Congress are among the advertisers taking advantage of a Colorado entrepreneur's new twist on telemarketing.
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May 20: Thread.com matches singles through shared Facebook friends.
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May 10: How do you diagnose a patient that weighs hundreds of tons and stretches more than a mile across? Meet Matech, the firm pioneering a super-sized electrocardiogram to reveal damage in aging bridges.
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Apr 22: Granny may have never touched a computer, but Linked Senior wants to get her in tune with the iPod generation.
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Apr 12: A San Diego entrepreneur's "edible walls" grow fruits and veggies vertically.
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Apr 5: A Massachusetts caviar company wants to eliminate toxins from the fish that you eat. Their solution? Go down the food chain.
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Mar 18: A San Diego entrepreneur is working to speed up the expanding online voting movement -- and tap a $16 billion market.
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Mar 8: Organizations ranging from the C.I.A. to Comedy Central have turned their walls into dry-erase brainstorming surfaces.
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Mar 2: When it comes to finding the right tunes for television shows, Jingle Punks is music to producers' ears.
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Feb 23: By scrapping the "call center" part of telephone customer service, Alpine Access cut costs and boosted satisfaction for both its workers and its clients.
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Feb 19: Need a yarn supplier in Vietnam? Panjiva can help.
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Feb 9: Three rival companies are battling for the hearts -- and wallets -- of on-the-go merchants who want to take credit card payments by smartphone.
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Feb 5: Why are customers still stuck waiting for repair people, with no idea when they'll show? This Cleveland firm wants to fix that.
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Jan 29: A 25-year-old power broker is on track for $2 million in sales from his ATMs for energy.
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Jan 22: ZocDoc wants making medical appointments to be as easy as booking a hotel.
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Jan 12: A tech startup is crafting business management tools for one of California's fastest-growing industries: Selling pot.
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Jan 7: An Austin entrepreneur slashes shipping costs by letting drivers bid for jobs.
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Dec 21: As the Big Three flounder, a new crop of insurgent automakers are reinventing the cars we drive.
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Oct 1: Our six-part program for fostering business creativity.
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