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Big Think hit the streets (the intersection of Wall & Broad, NYC) during the AM rush hour this Friday, May 18th with a guerilla theater piece for Facebook IPO day. […]

Medic Mobile integrates technologies to connect and train health systems. The company uses technologies such as FrontlineSMS, OpenMRS, Ushahidi, Google Apps, and HealthMap to allow healthcare workers to communicate with each […]

Common Sense Media is an advocacy group for proper media digestion for kids. The website offers reviews of video games, movies, websites, apps, and much more along with parenting tips and […]

Cheetah is a four-legged robot that has attained the highest land speeds yet of any robot with legs. The Cheetah, developed by Boston Dynamics, mimics the movements of the real […]

DIY Drones is the largest Unmanned Aerial Vehicle community on the web.  The website allows enthusiasts to analyze, compare, and troubleshoot each other’s UAV projects through an open-source atmosphere. The […]

Living PlanIT is a company that aims to build the new, sustainable cities of the future. They are teaming up with different partners to help them develop and implement new […]

Votifi is an online platform that encourages positive, nuanced political exchange. After you sign up, the website sends you daily polls through your browser or mobile device and creates a […]

What’s the Big Idea?  Long-time political activist and self-proclaimed “party crasher”Richard Tafel believes that American democracy is under threat. The environmental, economic, healthcare, and political systems we’ve relied on for decades are […]

Busuu.com is an online network for learning languages. The site offers lessons in a number of  languages and the ability to video chat and interact with native speakers – who […]

Happstr is a mobile app that allows you to mark geographical locations where you’re feeling happy, and to see others’ “happiness spots” on the map. Happstr challenges users to focus […]

Sonar is a mobile app that lets you know when friends and the friends of your friends are in your vicinity. The app uses information from networks such as Facebook, […]

Developed by NeuroVigil, the iBrain is the first portable brain scanner. Unlike other brain scanners, the iBrain simplifies the number of EEG channels to just one, creating a map of […]

Path is a “smart journal” app for the iPhone and Android. This app is a private social network to share pictures and moments with an intimate circle of friends and […]

The NAO is a fully programmable, 57cm humanoid robot made by Alderaban Robotics. This cute robot contains a full array of body language, text and visual recognition, as well as […]

Vuzix develops video eyewear and personal display devices for a wide range of applications. Their Smart Glasses allow the user to view video in both 2-D and 3-D as well utilize […]

Big Think is pleased to announce we are soliciting applications for the following position: Social Media Intern Big Think is looking for a Social Media Editor to run our daily […]

The XTR3D is a touch-free software interface that only requires a simple 2-D camera to operate. XTR3D creates a three-dimensional image of the user which can then be used to […]

Soccket, a soccer ball that stores the energy generated while playing with it, was developed by Uncharted Play, Inc. The product of an engineering class for non-engineers at Harvard, Soccket […]

Le Chal, a shoe that may replace the cane for a visually impaired person, was developed by Anirudh Sharma. Le Chal, or “The Take-Me-There Shoe,” uses a phone’s GPS along […]

The Ekso is a bionic exoskeleton designed by Ekso Bionics in order to help wheelchair users walk. Essentially a wearable robot, the Ekso allows people who suffer from paralysis or […]

Fitocracy is a social fitness network that rewards its users with experience points, allowing them to level up and complete fitness “quests” with other users, creating a fun and challenging […]

Spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen will be joining us on Big Think Live this Friday at 4pm Eastern time. His philosophy and spiritual method, evolutionary enlightenment, is an approach to achieving […]

What’s the Big Idea? The words “Renaissance man” get thrown around a lot these days, but Nathan Myrhvold’s career evokes the true spirit of the phrase. More polymath than genius, the […]

What’s the Big Idea? Sometimes you have to be bad in the service of being good, say coauthors and cofounders Frances Frei (a professor at Harvard Business School) and Anne […]

Free will has long been a fraught concept among philosophers and theologians. Now neuroscience is entering the fray. For centuries, the idea that we are the authors of our own […]

Pro is a professional development toolkit delivering interactive multimedia courses to equip you with the skills you need to rise through the ranks of the professional world. Whether you’re an […]

What’s the Big Idea? For corporations, growth is a quarterly concern — a hope maybe, but not a necessity. For small businesses and nonprofits, stagnation isn’t an option: it’s grow […]

Pay attention, get focused, be vigilant, stay on task, keep your eye on the ball, listen up, get your head in the game: these are just a few of the […]

What’s the Big Idea? On average, students pay $35,000 a year for the privilege of being educated at a private nonprofit American college. In December of 2011, indebtedness among college […]