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IdeaSpace winners show why it’s never too late to chase your dreams
When orthopedic surgeon Dr. Rene Catan proposed to create a local and cheaper total joint implant, nobody listened. “Way mutoo, way maminaw (nobody believed, nobody listened),” Catan said Friday while propping up the huge P500,000 mock check he got for being one of the 10 winners of IdeaSpace’s nationwide search for start-ups. Catan and his…
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Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp, Kik me, maybe
The headline screamed “install me now!” It was for yet another mobile messaging application and this time, one that promised, according to TechCrunch, “A Richer, Faster Messaging App That Quickly Grabs Doodles, Videos & Images.” The article about MessageMe got me at: “It’s light, It’s fast and it isn’t just limited to texting or photos.”…
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Disruptive innovation and journalism
The idea is broadly misunderstood, said Harvard professor Clayton Christensen. Disruptive innovation isn’t just about being new, different or radical. Disruptive innovation is transforming “something that used to be complicated and expensive so that only the rich and people with a lot of skill had access to it and could use it” and making it…
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Cebuano student leads team behind voice-controlled photo editing app
“Change the color of the shirt,” the voice on the video said. Like magic, the shirt of the woman in the photo took on a bluish hue and, with a swipe on a slider, turned orange. The video (embedded at the end of this post) is a demonstration of PixelTone, a prototype iPad app that…
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2 Veco workers get award for tech innovation
TWO employees of the Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) cobbled together off-the-shelf parts to devise an equipment to test power meters for a fraction of the cost of imported gadgets. Technician Niceporo Salvaleon, Jr. and meter engineer Alvin Basubas built the power meter tester for about P25,000 to do the job previously done by a machine…