Prezi will Rock your Presentation

I discovered the wild and playful world of Prezi this week.  I was a die hard PowerPoint fan since the 1990s able to build those boring slides with lots of word.  I was reluctant to leave my world.
I built a complicated PowerPoint slide for Professor Armstrong's class rich with animation and proudly showed it to my team.  Well, what can I say...I abandoned PowerPoint and ended up learning Prezi!  I was so engaged that I worked well into the night and woke up the next day to start again. Why?  Prezi lets you think in multiple dimensions and perspectives.  I wasn't bound by those four edges of the PowerPoint slide.  Anything can fit into the screen!  The scalability of images is truly AMAZING zooming into a tiny image to full resolution.

Prezi is not only fun and easy, you can work collaboratively online with ten of your friends.  Prezi must have been designed by person with a silly imagination because each online friend is represented by a colorful stick figure that bobbles about the screen.

This is a great read...take a look and let your mind appreciate the innovation and talent in this world.

The 20 Most Innovative Startups In Tech

Lunch Launch at DC Week

On the second floor of a lovely old DC building in Dupont Circle there was standing room only for entrepreneurs who want to startup a new business or learn more about their fledging business.  The room  had an air of excitement, an expectation that secrets would be shared that will help all of us succeed.  The Dupont Circle Business Incubator opened its doors this fall and it's founder Carter Ferrington is welcoming and genuinely interested in helping people succeed.

So what did I learn?  First off, I learned that GW is teaching us the same stuff that these folks were talking about when it comes to market research, financial analysis and business plans.  Surprisingly about half the attendees didn't have a business plan...hopefully, they didn't have a business either!
The take home point was: Don't keep your great ideas to yourself. Talk and share to get feedback.  Your idea is great, but 50,000 others have had the same idea. What will make you succeed?  Be open to feedback and let it change your idea to be even better.  Don't be afraid of contrary feedback...it may hurt, but it will also make your idea better.  You need to understand your customer and your competition.  Of course there are risks that someone may "steal" your idea, but the benefits of growing and shaping your idea through sharing outweigh the risk of losing it.

Read about other incubator labs in DC where innovators and entrepreneurs incubate great ideas.

New Biochip will Save Lives

Wireless EPIC device (10x10x3 mm)

Watch the Plessey EPIC video!

EPIC biochip... Superhero

EPIC...Just like a Superhero


What if a tiny device could locate a baby trapped under the rubble after a massive earthquake or help a firefighter find an unconscious victim in a burning building?  

Amazing? Yes and It is already here ready for sampling.  

What is EPIC? EPIC (Electric Potential Integrated Circuit) was designed by Plessy Semiconductors of England for EKG (electrocardiogram) readings on heart patients, but it can do so much more.  

How does EPIC Work?  This little device detects extremely small milivoltage changes in magnetic fields across the body's muscle (like your heart...yes it's a muscle) and nerves.  It is so sensitive it can even detect changes through walls!

Japanese Rescue Team

• What in the world could we use this for? Let me count the ways!  

EPIC is a quick way to capture the patient's EKG.  This could be life saving for the paramedic responding to a heart attack victim.  In a hospital, EPIC will continually monitor the patient without all the pads stuck on their skin and cords attached to a machine.

EPIC could make the first responder a hero by locating human life after a natural disaster.  Global organizations like the Red Cross will pursue this technology due to the promise of drastic cost reduction and saving lives of those cannot help themselves...this is a WIN-WIN-WIN!

Holds promise for the disabled...EPIC can help a quadriplegic move a wheelchair through eye movements or help an amputee control their prosthesis through residual muscle activity.