Digital Manufacturing Lab announces 7 new project challenges
The next to-do list for the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute is on the table, with organizers laying out seven challenges they hope to solve in the next year...
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5 presentations of ‘passion’ that aim to solve urban food challenges
A text-alert system for fresh food distributors and a middle school curriculum to teach young people how to grow their own food were among the ideas offered at a unique...
Demo Day: Ideas for children in poor schools, women in poor countries
A company recycling electric car batteries to power poor schools, a plan to give life-changing cash to extremely poor women and a tablet-based learning platform for people with autism were...
Digital consumers, performance marketing and a life of connectedness
Today's digital consumers are increasingly mobile, except when they're not. So smart marketers don't waste time trying to guess the next big platform, and they meet consumers wherever they are....
Lightbank adds entrepreneur, investor Rick Zullo as a vice president
Rick Zullo, an entrepreneur with experience at venture capital firms on both coasts, has joined Chicago-based Lightbank as a vice president, Lightbank announced. Zullo comes to Lightbank — the venture...
CES: IPhone 6 Plus aside, smartphones take on a shrinking suspicion
Apparently the talk making the rounds on the floor at CES is that smartphone screens are going to get ... smaller? Greg Topel, CEO of Evanston-based Tangible Haptics, is in...
Northwestern students bringing ‘feel’ to what you see on your phone
You may think you have all the latest features on your touchscreen phone. But is it haptic? It is if you're Joe Mullenbach or Craig Shultz. They're Northwestern University doctoral...
Cybersecurity will be key to managing risk and reputation
Increased connectivity in health care. Smoother deliveries in e-commerce. Wider interest in social-impact initiatives. Chicago-based innovators, entrepreneurs and technology leaders made those predictions and more as the big ideas of...
Make online shopping as seamless as possible
DAVID KALT, FOUNDER AND CEO, REVERB.COM Customers are looking for a more cohesive online shopping experience — one that includes content about the products they are looking at. This includes...
Power of makers will continue to grow
ZACH KAPLAN, CEO, INVENTABLES "Little is the new big," Kaplan said. A number of trends in manufacturing technology, marketing and finance are making it easier and easier for small companies...