Category Archives: Inventors

Neil Koenig ideaXme board advisor

Memories of Steve Jobs | Neil Koenig, talks of a conversation he had with Apple’s founder

Neil Koenig, former BBC Senior Producer and ideaXme board advisor tells us of his illuminating conversation with Apple’s founder, Steve Jobs. Sony Walkman TCD-D100 DAT In Paris in September 1998, my colleague Peter Day and I met Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to record an interview for a BBC documentary. But before we could get started, […]

Rachel Goslins, Director AIB at the Smithsonian Institution, hosting the FUTURES Show.

Smithsonian FUTURES Show: Invites Everyone to Imagine the Future

Neil Koenig, ideaXme interviewer, senior television producer and journalist, interviews Rachel Goslins, Director of the Arts and Industries Building, at the Smithsonian Institution. What does the Future Mean to You? What does the future mean to you? A forthcoming exhibition in America’s capital city will attempt to help visitors to answer this question. The Arts […]

James Longcroft, Founder and Managing Director CHOOSE Packaging.

CHOOSE – For A Plastic Free World

 Karen Potter, Director of sustainability hub and ideaXme sustainability ambassador interviews James Longcroft, Founder and Managing Director, CHOOSE Packaging. Plastic Free Packaging   CHOOSE is a packaging development company that is leading the move away from plastic bottling to environmentally friendly options. CHOOSE uses biodegradable materials that are 100% plastic free in all their packaging and is […]

Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro with Geminoid

Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro’s Geminoid: Human-Like Robot

Ira Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Professor Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro the Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, of the Department of Systems Innovation, in the Graduate School of Engineering Science, at Osaka University, Japan. Professor Ishiguro is also the Director of the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), a private company […]

Fionn Ferreira with Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf

Google Science Fair Winner Fionn Ferreira

Dr. Richard W. Smith (PhD), ideaXme World Oceans ambassador and Oceanographer at Global Aquatic Research, interviews 18 year old scientist Fionn Ferreira, winner of the 2019 Google Science Fair. Fionn Ferreira Fionn Ferreira recently received the award for developing a method for removing plastics from water. Whilst this represents a breakthrough in the established scientific […]

Steve Furber Brain

Super ‘Human Like’ Computer

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Stephen Furber, ICL Professor, Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester and Creator of SpiNNaker. SpiNNaker is short for Spiking Neural Network Architecture. It is a super ‘human like’ computer, which has been in the planning for 20 years. It is a neural network computer, the current main focus […]

Courageous Ideas and Breakthrough Science: A Revolutionary Impact on Human Health

Courageous Ideas and Breakthrough Science: A Revolutionary Impact on Human Health

Ira Pastor, ideaXme longevity and aging ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Gerald Pollack, Professor Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle. Life is water: Breakthrough Science Ira Pastor comments: On the last few shows, we have spent time on the different hierarchical levels of the biologic-architecture of the life and aging process. We’ve talked about the […]

What's a thing and why does it need a low cost

What’s a Thing and Why Does It Need a Low Cost, Low Powered Network?

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Wienke Giezeman, initiator of The Things Network and co-founder of Things Industries. Wienke is a catalyst in The Internet of Things (IoT), world. He is a creator who is shaping our world. By 2020 Gartner, Inc. a leading research organisation, predicts that over 20 billion things will be connected […]

Dr Robert Brown

Top Physicist Dr. Robert Brown, CEO of the American Institute of Physics Talks of His Human Story, Big Ideas and How He’d Love to Meet Yuja Wang

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Dr. Robert Brown, CEO of the American Institute of Physics. Discover why Dr. Robert Brown would like to meet the world famous concert pianist Yuja Wang and the question he would like to ask her. Learn of his human story; his inventions, blueprints and patents and his rich career to date, […]

Larry Sanger

Wikipedia Co-Founder Has a Request, He’d Like a Miracle!

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Larry Sanger, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Wikipedia and discovers some surprising things about him! This is unlike any other interview of Larry Sanger in print or on the Internet. Background: From Larry Sanger’s Wikipedia Page Lawrence Mark “Larry” Sanger, born July 16, 1968 is an American Internet project developer, […]