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The 10x Blog is a collection of shared news, knowledge, and inspiration from the world of technology to expand our vision of what life in the future could be.
Forbes’ 3 Most Valuable Brands Are Tech Companies
Forbes’ Kurt Badenhausen identifies Apple, Microsoft and Google as the most valuable brands in the world: “Forbes valued the leading brands based…
Highway1 Hardware Incubator Now Accepting Applications
10x founder, Altay Guvench, and myself, 10x’s brand director, have recently been serving as mentors at Highway1: PCH International’s impressive incubator for early…
Holland Introduces First Solar-Powered Bike Lane
A few months ago, the US company Solar Roadways made headlines for running a successful Indiegogo campaign to develop its solar-powered…
Foodini the 3D Food Printer Uses Real Ingredients
Here’s something the world’s been waiting for… Straight out of sci-fi, Foodini is a 3D printer that constructs real food…
TED | Why Work Doesn’t Happen At Work
10x exists in part because many of the most creative technologists won’t work in traditional settings anymore – preferring instead…
Light on Yoga: Posing in an X-Ray Machine
The practice of yoga asanas (postures) is an effective way for people to stretch the contracted muscles, realign the crumpled bones and…
Digital Dancers: Chunky Move’s ‘Mortal Engine’
Lights down, volume up for this eerily beautiful video highlight of Mortal Engine, by Australia’s groundbreaking modern dance company, Chunky…
Is Accident the Illegitimate Father of Invention?
Mark Twain once remarked, “Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.” Thus, innovation thrives on the courage to challenge conventions and…
Wrong By Design: Breaking the Rules to Fix the Problem
In Why Getting It Wrong Is the Future of Design, former Wired creative director Scott Dadich discusses the value of unorthodoxy in…
TED | The Rise of Human-Computer Cooperation
This TED Talk is about “human computer symbiosis”, by Shyam Sankar. Sankar is Director of Forward Deployed Engineering at Palantir Technologies, a software company…