Important Innovations

"How Dare You" by Journalist Edward Kane A Spirited Running Adventure with Important Life Lessons for Girls.   This story is an enchanting work of fiction by my journalist colleague Ed Kane.  It contains the adventures of Cordy.   She’s a spunky, 10 year old girl who finds herself facing a new school in a new place, where she doesn’t know anyone and doesn’t have any friends.   With one notable exception – her dog Bash. Running Team To remedy her lonely situation, Cordy helps start her new school’s girls’ cross country team.   And, she embarks on an enchanting adventure where she happens upon a magical forest with a Firefly Highway and talking animals including an opossum, squirrel, owl and birds.   Life Lessons During her running adventures, Cordy learns the value of friendship, teamwork, always doing your best and finding the goodness in others.  It's a unique work of fiction that makes you feel better after reading it whether you are a young girl or a

Audiobooks on the Latest Global Innovations Written & Narrated by US Network TV Journalists Informative & Entertaining Listening I'd like to share some free audio samples of our three audiobooks on innovation on ACX, Audible and iTunes - "Important Innovations Collection" by Edward Kane  These audiobooks provide our news summaries on the latest innovations in robotics, energy and travel, like flying car technology, commercial kite energy and breakthrough robotics that serve your medical needs. Ed and I are US national television journalists and we've wrote and narrated these news summaries.  Here are links for a listen on Renewable Energy  https://www.amazon.com/Important-Innovations-Collection-Energy/dp/B07XTQK5M4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= For Robotics  https://www.amazon.com/Important-Innovations-Collection-Innovation-Impressive/dp/B07XTQW4JJ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= For Travel  https://www.a

Toyota Mirai Driving on Hydrogen Power Toyota is making a bet that the preferred fuel of the future is hydrogen.  They just unveiled their 2021 Toyota Mirai concept design.  The 4-door sedan is powered by hydrogen and has enough room inside to accommodate five people. Taking Its Own Road Toyota is going a different direction than its major global competitors which are placing their bets on electric battery powered big vehicles like SUVs and trucks.  Toyota will start selling the hydrogen powered vehicles in late 2020.  It adds that it will ramp up production ten fold for what it believes will be a very popular mass market, four door sedan. Not Putting All Its Eggs in One Technology Basket For Toyota, electric vehicles are also in its mix, although it does have some concerns about the electric vehicle market.  Namely, Toyota worries about the uncertainty of consumer demand and the technical challenges of extending battery range and cutting recharging time.  Nonetheless, Toyot

Nobel Prize for Chemistry - Lithium Ion Batteries Source:  Nobel Prize 3 Discoverers of Innovation, Creating a Rechargeable World The innovation discovery process spans two decades, the 1970's and 1980's and two worlds:  the US and Japan.  The end result of the cumulative achievements in developing the lithium-ion battery is a breathtaking Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2 US scientists and a Japanese scientist.  What they have invented, the lithium-ion battery, has been termed by the Nobel Prize Committee as an invention that "recharges the world".  Their discovery enables our global communications over laptops and cellphones and the possibilities of renewable energy by catching and storing vast amounts of wind and solar power on their battery systems.  The inventors' battery even enables us to drive electric cars.  Congratulations to the visionary discoverers!  For more news on this, go to Important Innovations Collection: Innovation Rewarded : Nobel Prize i

Apple's Next Generation Health Tracking Smart Clothing Source:  Apple New Patented Health Sensors Apple has a new patented health sensor idea for very Smart Clothing.  It's a new elastic sensor band that can be sown into clothing fabric and provide real-time reads on our health.  Apple calls it the Next G on health monitoring and an addition to the Apple Watch to provide more accurate ECG results. Important Innovations Collection: Apple's New Patent: Health Sensors : Next G Health Tracking Smart Clothing Source:  Apple Apple's Health Sensor Band Apple has a new, patented idea.  Health track...

Trump Administration Promising More Biofuels Source:  US Department of Agriculture Ethanol Use Mandated To Rise President Donald Trump has never claimed to be a Green "What's good for the environment is good for the nation and the world" President.  In fact, he dismisses the very existence of Climate Change. But the Administration just made a slight move into a greener direction.  They've unveiled a plan to boost US biofuel consumption, specifically corn based, ethanol fuel, starting in 2020.  The purpose is to help struggling farmers in the Corn belt, which is a big voting constituency for Mr. Trump.  The plan is getting applause from the agricultural industry and big boos from big oil, another Republican voting base. EPA The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is revamping ethanol rules. The plan is in partnership with the US Department of Agriculture.  The plan requires an increase in the amount of ethanol that oil refineries must add to the

Important Innovation Collection Audiobooks Just Published & Now Preparing "How Dare You" Audiobook for Kids Latest Innovations in Robotics and Renewable Energy ACX just published two more of our innovation news audiobooks:  "Important Innovations Collection:  Robotics" and "Important Innovations Collection:  Energy".  They join "Important Innovations Collection:  Travel" that was the first of our audiobooks published.  We're right now tracking an audiobook version for Ed's Fiction Adventure Book for young girls "How Dare You" which was just published by Kindle as an e-book and a paperback available on Amazon.  amazon.com/author/ekane  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YQ4T1CJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i12   I'm US national television journalist Maryanne Kane, who loves narrating the audiobooks.  Unique News Summaries on Breaking Global Innovations The Robotic, Energy and T

Intro to "How Dare You", Fiction for Girls, by Journalist Ed Kane Inspiring Young Girls to Do Their Best  "How Dare You" is a great fiction, adventure book for young girls.  Everyone of us faces challenges along our runs in life.  At a young age, it can be a new neighborhood that you and your family just moved into and a new school where you don't have any friends.  Enter the book's heroine Cordy and her wonderful dog Bash. New School, Cool Running Cordy, her teacher Ms. Mapes, Cordy's mother and Bash all contribute to starting a girl's cross country team at the new school. The result is enchanted and unimagined adventures. Cordy, Bash and the team have magical runs through a magnificent forest of firefly highways with talking animals, including opossums, owls, squirrels and birds.  The lessons of life Cordy and all of us learn along the runs are profound and leave you feeling great.  For a free Kindle borrow to experience this great children

"How Dare You" by Edward Kane A Magical, Enchanted Running Adventure to Important Life Lessons. I find it an enchanting, magical story of value to young girls. This is Ed Kane's Announcement I'm so pleased to announced that I've just published a fiction story for young girls.  "How Dare You" is the enchanting adventure of 10 year old, spunky Cordy.  Cordy's family just moved and she's entering a new school, not knowing anyone.  She has no friends, with one big exception - her wonderful dog Bash. Running to Life Lessons To remedy her lonely situation, Cordy joins the school's new girls' cross country team.  And with that, she embarks on an enchanting running adventure into a magical forest of firefly highways and talking animals.  Cordy's runs teach her the value of friendship, teamwork, always doing your best and looking for goodness in others.  For a free Kindle borrow, go to  amazon.com/author/ekane  https://

Developing Domestic Alternative to US Domination in Cloud Computing Source:  Stock Image of Cloud Computing Important Global Competition for the Cloud France has brought in two French tech companies - software company Dassault Systems and cloud company OMH to beat the US dominance in cloud computing and provide French companies with a domestic alternative.  The announcement is from the French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire. Very Fast Track Development France wants to build its own cloud secure storing system for storing French companies most sensitive data.  According to some news reports, this project is being developed initially at the French German participatory level and then possibly expanded throughout Europe. The extent of Germany's involvement was not initially detailed. Big R&D Investment The French government's  big concern is a US 2018 law, the Cloud Act, that let's US Agencies access European corporate data stored in the servers of US c

Unique Power System:  Inflight Battery Swaps for Drones Source:  UC Berkeley New Drone/Battery System UC Berkeley HiPeRLab Innovation Can you imagine a drone with almost unlimited flying time?  Well, it's just been created by engineers and roboticists at the University of California Berkeley's HiPeRLab, their High Performance Robotics Lab.  It's a prototype drone system with unique, inflight battery switching technology.  The potential is to keep drones in the air for almost unlimited flight times. Quadcopter Drone with a Docking Deck The team has invented a quadcopter drone with a docking tray that's able to accept a smaller, fresh battery delivering drone.  The battery drone lands on the dock, recharges the larger drone and flies away.  This allows the next battery drone to fly in and take its place to do a recharge. Sustainable Drone Flights This is a fascinating approach to one way of powering sustainable drone flights.  In the future, othe

Sign of Rising Global Air Pollution Source:  Vietnam Air Pollution image Independent Group Says It's the Worst in the World In Vietnam, the air quality has been at the unhealthy level for days.  It's so bad the government of Vietnam has advised its people to limit their outdoor activities.  The pollution problem is severe.  The causes include coal pollution, no rain and farmers burning rice crop remnants after the harvest. May be the World's Worst Air The levels of hazardous small particles, PM 2.5 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City exceed Vietnam standards and have been rising for a month.  As independent online monitor says the level of PM 2.5 is the worst in the world.  Children, the elderly and people with respiratory issues are being urged to stay away from traffic and any other extensive type of  outdoor activity. It' so bad in Vietnam that people are being urged to wear  masks and goggles when outdoors.  This is another stark example of the pervasiveness o

Upstart, New AI Driven Stock Venue Source:  Stock Image Highly Innovative Stock Trading Imperative Execution is an artificial intelligence driven, US stock trading venue operator.  It's currently going after business with the NYSE and other stock exchanges by adopting their pricing models.  The company indicates that they could also very soon list as a new stock exchange.  This is another important example of artificial intelligence impacting another key industry, in this case investing. More Public Visibility Imperative Execution runs IntelligentCross, which is an alternative trading system (ATS).  The ATS used AI to monitor and improve its performance in real time to save investors money.  The issue for the company is the lack of public visibility.  That's why it wants to either list as an exchange or partner with an existing exchange. Pulling in New Subscribers As an ATS, it's government registered, broker run and has more flexibility to innovate.  But the