August 19, 2013 AT 8:13 am
An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About #makerbusiness
An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About @ NYTimes.com.
SOMETIMES, there is an actual eureka moment. For Meredith Perry, it was in late 2010, during her senior year studying astrobiology at the University of Pennsylvania. She was searching for an idea to enter into the college’s innovation competition.
“See past old paradigms” is one of those cheesy riffs one might hear from an innovation expert working the business speakers’ circuit. Yet here it was, a question that inched just past what was simply accepted: Why, in a wireless age, do we still have electrical wires?
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