I was in a coffee shop recently and overheard a young couple discussing whether or not it was morally responsible to bring a child into today’s world given all of the global challenges we face. What’s curious about their question and the dark contemporary mood it represents is that in a very measurable way, the Read More

San Francisco, CA (October 25, 2011) — The X PRIZE Foundation honored the benefactor and winners of the $1.4 million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE, during its 2011 Radical Benefit for Humanity at the Regency Center in San Francisco on October 20. More than 400 “who’s who” from San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and Read More

Edison2, the tiny, Virginia-based engineering company that won the $5 million mainstream class in the Automotive X Prize last year, recently tested the performance of its all-electric, four-passenger Very Light Car design — a rounded pod with outboard-mounted wheels — at Roush Laboratories in Livonia, Mich. The design slips through the air with very little Read More