Technology conference PopTech is teaming up with eBay to launch an innovative platform that makes it easy for ordinary people to offset their carbon-dioxide emissions. When it opens to the public ...

TED may be the reigning superstar of ideas conferences, but every October, in the tiny town of Camden, Maine, you can experience an equally formidable, if slightly lower-key, thought festival known as ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Regina Dugan, VP of engineering at Google, and John Maeda, former director ...

When Pieter Hoff spoke at PopTech in 2010, he introduced us to the Groasis Waterboxx, a box that helps trees grow - without groundwater or electricity - in challenging environments by capturing the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University professor has been tapped to become an "ambassador of science" as one of the 2013 class of PopTech Fellows. PopTech, a global community of innovators from a ...

If there’s one thing I know for certain it’s that Camden, Maine is lovely this time of year. I know this because since I arrived here, a little more than 24 hours ago, every man, woman and cab driver ...

Take a look at the archived live chat from 6/28 by visiting the PopTech blog here. Sinan Aral and Eli Pariser have both spent quite a bit of time looking at the influence of social networks and the ...

The PopTech Conference is like an east coast TED with a slightly bigger heart. Wonderfully curated by Andrew Zolli, the gathering always seems to highlight fascinating people right before they hit the ...

In the second installment of our story about a new product collaboration between PopTech, Timbuk2 Designs, and the Portable Light Project, Timbuk2’s Kevin McSpadden talks about transforming the ...

PopTech, the annual three-day meeting of innovators and do-gooders in Camden, Me., is a cynicism breaker—even for the most Hobbesian-minded person. Founded 15 years ago by a group of Camden residents ...

My role is to introduce them to the design process–to provide some tools to help them think through and challenge the assumptions they’re making about their interventions. As always, I’m struck by how ...

Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Ph.D of Haptics Group which is part of the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, works on one of the many projects in development at the lab. As an assistant ...