technology innovation

11.22.09

PPX Gets Personal with New Leagues

Seasoned trader or total newbie, now is your time to shine (and rub it in)

Posted 02.12.2009 at 2:13 pm 0 Comments

The PopSci Predictions Exchange (PPX) is one of PopSci.com’s signature features. With three new “props” to consider each week, users place bets on the outcome of real world science news, maintaining individual portfolios and competing for fame within the game as high-ranking players, and for awesome monthly prizes. Now, in the name of innovation, we’ve gone and made a good thing better. We are pleased to introduce (drum roll please): PPX Leagues! Seasoned trader or total newbie, you can create and join as many leagues as you like. Grab your friends, family, colleagues and classmates and get started. You make the rules, you determine the prizes. Ah, freedom. Ain't it sweet?

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In The Navy

Builders borrow best ideas from military for construction and traffic sites

By PopSci.com Guest Blogger: Carolyn Whelan Posted 01.13.2009 at 6:41 pm 1 Comment

Just back from the Transportation Research Board conference and meetings, Carolyn Whelan, a New York-based freelancer focused on alternative energy, climate change, trade, and travel, is guest-blogging for PopSci.com, focusing on new emissions-cutting technologies for infrastructure and transport which may play a prominent role in the Obama administration.

Like retailers did with the Internet, transit officials are borrowing a host of space-age applications from the military, enabling real-time reaction, response, repair, and rerouting in routine and emergency situations.

Or so said gadget and system developers at the Transportation Research Board's annual shindig this week, where some 10,000 folks in the road, rail, air, and boat transit world meet to talk riveting topics like pedestrian wait times at stop lights and measuring traffic flow over snow.

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