Technology & Innovation
Look Ma, No Hands!
Bad news, “Back to the Future” fans. Cars of the 21st century will probably not be able to fly. But the vehicles will drive themselves. They will find their own parking. They will let you relax and stream multimedia on your way to and from your destination. And they just might make you money as…
For Innovators, Winning Isn’t Everything
Last year’s Innovator of the Year, Alicia Herald, put winning the Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program’s marquee award into perspective. “I think it’s a fun title, and you get a beautiful celebratory bowl,” said Herald, CEO of myEDmatch. “But internally amongst the Pipeline family, we think of the event as the celebration of how far all…
Leveling the technology playing field
It’s never fun to get a poor report card, but it’s even worse when the bad marks are due to circumstances beyond your control. That’s the way Superintendent Dennis Carpenter felt when the organization he leads, the Hickman Mills School District, fared badly on its most recent annual performance report from the Missouri Department of…
90 Seconds With Mighty Handle
Ed’s Note: Flatland and Startland News have partnered to highlight Kansas City’s innovators and entrepreneurs, all in 90 seconds. This is the fifth and final episode in the series. Think of Mighty Handle as your digital defender. No, Mighty Handle is not anti-virus software. Rather, the handy, Kansas City-made contraption is a device that can save your fingers from…
90 Seconds with ShotTracker
From propelling the game’s emergence in the early 1900s, to honing hall of fame players like Wilt Chamberlin at the University of Kansas, the Sunflower State is rich in basketball history. So it makes sense that a Kansas company, ShotTracker, hopes to write the sport’s next chapter with its wearable technology for basketball players and coaches….
Local startup heading to the big leagues of retail
Like so many great technological innovations, Jason Carman’s was born out of annoyance. “I have outdoor speakers at my place but they are controlled by a receiver in my basement,” Carman said. “So I’d be out by the barbecue and if I wanted to turn on some music, I’d have to walk inside, find the…
Your fave TEDxKC Speakers: Where are they now?
We catch up with three former TEDxKC speakers to take a look at their big ideas and what they are doing now. Speaker: Diana Kander Year: 2014 The ‘Idea Worth Spreading’: Most businesses are created with businesses, not people, in mind. Quote worth remembering: “Since the 1980s, we’ve had an explosion in the number of classrooms…
Kansas City takes on the NASA Space Apps Challenge for 2nd Year
While many would consider going out on a Friday night to include dinner, drinks or going dancing, a select group of individuals went to Ingenology, a startup incubator in the Crossroads district, to build software for NASA’s Space Apps Challenge.
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