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...their final quality checks churns behind him, Take emphasizes that Aquos is not just Sharp's latest hit product. It is the core of a strategic shift that has transformed the company from a perennial also-ran to Asian rivals like Sony, Matsushita and Samsung into the world's hottest electronics company. "Everybody from 1 to 100 uses a TV, many of them for three to five hours a day," he says, clearly delighted by the thought of all of us plopped in front of so many idiot boxes, each of them potentially bearing a Sharp logo. "Television," he says...
...tatters. Now, with his profits, he has built a house and sends his children to school. Rwandan beans are jumping these days: this year's crop sold out, with Green Mountain coffee, Whole Foods and other companies eagerly buying. "Rwanda has gone from being completely unknown to being the hottest coffee origin in 2005," says Schilling, who runs pearl in Rwanda. pearl had to solve farmers' financing issues, too; many can't wait six to nine months between harvest and payment. So pearl partnered with EcoLogic Finance, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that loans to businesses in Africa and Latin America...
...well as from quirky amateurs. Called PodFinder, it's the world's first audio directory to help listeners browse, search, discover and subscribe to podcasts. PodShow claims that 4 million listeners access its content--about half the estimated podcasting audience. The company produces some of today's hottest content, including podcasts for Paris Hilton, Spike Lee and The Dawn and Drew Show! (raw talk from two married ex-punks living in a Wisconsin farmhouse) and shows for media companies like Sirius Satellite Radio. It plans to promote independent artists and royalty-free music podcasts...
...answer, Demaine helped prove, is any shape you like. The latter, a long-standing and deceptively complex problem, asks whether every shape formed by folding lines linked by hinges, as in a carpenter's rule, can be unfolded. Demaine helped show it can. Now he's tackling the hottest folding problem of the day: finding the rules that govern how protein molecules twist into the complex shapes that are key to their biological function. Predicting how they do that would help pharmaceutical firms design more effective drugs. --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Matt Smith/New York
PERSONALIZED One of the hottest and most controversial new areas is designing software that will get to know individuals' interests, mostly through their search history--the clickstream. Findory, a Seattle-based news-search site launched in January 2004, provides access to news stories and blogs. As you start searching for certain types of stories, the site gradually learns about your preferences, and the home page evolves to mirror your interests. Google includes a similar feature in its most recent desktop search tool, called Sidebar, which was released last week. The technology makes some consumers uneasy: How much do you want...