This week, a couple of our team members were featured in magazines for being beautifully dressed and all around beautiful. Garrett Grohman, Director of Inside Sales, had a paparazzi-style snapshot taken of him, and GQ Tweeted it and called it a photo from the “most dapper motorcycle ride on the planet.” Anastasia Emmanuel, Marketing & Community Management for the UK, had her face blown up across an entire page of a Croatian magazine. Babes of Indiegogo – new Instagram hashtag? We’ll let you decide for yourselves.
Tech News
Unless you’re afraid of drowning, chances are at one time or another you’ve dreamed of being a mermaid. Or a mer-man, pop, mer-man. The latest in superhero tech comes from the x2 Sport Underwater Jetpack, which propels you through the water three times faster than any human can swim. The practical application? TBD. But dust off those goggles from your childhood swim lessons and get ready to further confuse fish.
Remember when you used to play fortune teller and pretend that the weird snowglobe your grandma gave you with a “cute,” but in reality extremely scary angel inside was a crystal ball? Tempescope has come up with the unexpected fusion between the two. By syncing with your phone or computer’s weather apps, Tempescope shows you tomorrow’s weather in small box akin to a snowglobe. If you have Seasonal Affective Disorder it’s probably not great for your mental health, but otherwise it’s pretty cool to have lightning in a box on your desk.
Social Innovation News
All over the world, working parents struggle to earn and income provide for their families while simultaneously ensuring their children are well taken care of. In urban slums, where kids can easily get into dangerous situations, childcare is especially important. IMPCT is tackling the problem by finding investors to fund day care centers to improve their educational offerings, and training informal caretakers to become small business owners. A serious win-win. Thanks to their
Indiegogo campaign to set up the first center in El Salvador,
IMPCT won the $1M Hult Prize, which is provided yearly with the Clinton Foundation to solve the world’s most pressing social problems.
If you’re the person who follows people around the house turning off lights as they get turned on, check out
Axiom House, a
net-zero energy house that costs less than a billion dollars. In fact, because it’s pre-fabricated, the house itself costs a modest $220,000. Before you do a jig next to your desk and decide to build one in San Francisco, keep in mind that land is not included. It’s built not only to create as much energy as it uses, but to create far less waste during construction than most other houses. AND it looks good.
Where are they now? Indiegogo success story
Con Man contributors are getting a really fast ROI. The first three episodes streamed live on Wednesday 9/30, serendipitously immediately following our Oktoberfest team dinner. It’s amazing that instead of going the traditional TV route, the Con Man team opted to crowdfund a web series (and the highest-funded web series, NBD or anything) so they could
maintain creative control.
We can’t all be as fashionable and dapper as Garrett, but if you want to be the next Max, or even the next Con Man, start your own campaign now.
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One always yearns for overseas higher education which gives a kick start to career and provide innumerable opportunities. But when it comes to deciding which place to land up for overseas education, one does not miss the chance to pick up the best from the lot. In the bargain for best places, studying in UK proves to be the ideal choice in the deal. Here are some reasons why Study in UK wins the game.
In most of the world university rankings carried out by Times Higher Education World Ranking; QS Best college ranking and few others to name; they have consistently ranked most of the UK institution in the top rank. These rankings are announced after assessing quality of the faculty, infrastructure facilities, student satisfaction, job opportunities and placement facilities, administration and many other aspects that make UK universities lead in the chart.
https://www.meetuniversity.com/blog/why-to-choose-uk-as-a-destination-for-higher-studies-in-2016/#.VqKH9egrLIU