http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:30:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/mobile-payments-take-off-at-stanford-university.html Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:16:53 +0000 Bling creates seamless retail transactions between students and merchants.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/app-makes-it-possible-for-the-blind-to-type-on-a-touchscreen-tablet.html Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:55:30 +0000 A Stanford undergraduate has created an app that allows blind people to type Braille on devices like the iPad.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/stanford-wants-to-open-a-campus-in-new-york.html Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:38:04 +0000 Californian University has announced it has submitted a formal "expression of interest" to open a satellite campus in New York City. Business Insider]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/recyclable-laptop-takes-just-two-minutes-to-disassemble.html Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:41:55 +0000 A concept computer that can be quickly dismantled for easy repair and recycling.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/pic-writing-on-the-wall-the-creative-cubicle.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:07:28 +0000 Stanford d.school students design budget-friendly movable whiteboard structures.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/bacteria-powered-rocket-thrusters.html Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:40:39 +0000 An sustainable fuel system that makes use of potentially hazardous byproducts.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/open-sourcing-a-doctors-education.html Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:41:58 +0000 Knowledge sharing and medicine come together in Stanford's Mini-Med School. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/a-history-of-ideas-and-culture-using-pattern-recognition.html Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:04:39 +0000 How much data is necessary to make a research method efficient?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/batteries-made-from-standard-office-paper.html Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:31:54 +0000 Researchers at Stanford University have taken another step in the production of feather-light batteries that have excellent energy storage properties.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/rewarding-online-gamers-for-eco-friendly-behavior.html Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:35:28 +0000 Is there a way to harness the popularity of multiplayer online gamers to save energy in the real world ?  Professor Byron Reeves, a media expert at Stanford University, thinks there is.  The scenario that Reeves imagines is that a player would get in-game feedback from a smart meter which tracks energy usage throughout the player’s house in order to reward the player online.  For example, if you turn off a light in an unused room, your house’s smart meter recognizes this and your online player is rewarded accordingly. The trick is making sure that the game designers find aRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/the-mobile-phone-orchestra.html Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:59:38 +0000 The Stanford University Center for Computer Research, who have given us the wonderful and very future forward Stanford Laptop Orchestra have organized another unusual tech-musical group called the MoPhO, or Mobile Phone Orchestra. Members of the group create “meta-instruments” out of mobile phones using the unique hardware built into mobile devices (keypads, accelerometers touchscreens and microphones) as the interface to control music. Though almost unclassifiable, MoPhO’s compositions are versatile, existing in a haunting and beautiful stylistic mix of ambient, noise and chiptune. We’ve seen many great examples of music making on phones before, but perhaps never in such a refined,Read more...]]>