Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Meet the supersized Geico Geeko. Of course what does he say: 15 minutes could save you 15% on your car insurance Every Geeko is a ham. ;-) (...

Sometimes I come across people with enormous wealth and power.  Many wield it like they own it and deserve it.  I wonder sometimes wit...

One week apart, two freak accidents, both families nearly wiped out.  Both touched me.  Exactly one week ago, I learned and wished condo...

So there was another collision of a U.S. Navy Destroyer. The Navy destroyer collided early today with an oil tanker off of Singapore.  ...

So I know that I'm stating the obvious, but still I can’t help but reflect… No matter how successful people are, things—bad things—s...

Some of the best work being done in robots to help disabled people is from Dr. Amit Goffer of the Technion University in Israel.  ReWalk ...

Very cool solution to flash flooding called  Topmix Permeable  by Tarmac (a U.K. sustainable building materials company).  The concrete ...

Just wanted to share this great site called Disability Blog  where people tell about their experiences of being disabled and how they have...

Dave Goldberg, the CEO of Survey Monkey (and the husband of Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook), died suddenly in a freakish accident ...

Fascinating perspective in the  New York Times  today  on the future diabolical use of drones. Yes, drones can be used for defense, law ...

It was shocking to read that suicide deaths in the U.S. have now surpassed deaths by motor vehicle accidents. In 2010, there were over 3...

Berkeley Bionics (now Ekso Bionics ) has done miracles here in helping the disabled to walk again.  Based on the Human Universal Load Ca...

Of all things, here's an innovation to the seat belt.  In the movies, we've all seen cars plunging into the water and submerging...

So we took our daughter out to shoot some arrows. She was really good, shooting off one after another and hitting the bullseye way do...

Cool innovation out of Sweden, as an alternative to regular bike helmets, there is now the Hovding .  An "invisible" nylon...

I love this evolving technology using bionics to help the paralyzed stand and walk again.  This technology for exoskeleton suits with mo...

Some of you may have watched the HBO series called Six Feet Under that ran from about 2000-2005 about a family that owned a funeral home...

There is a fascinating article in Wired (Oct. 2009) on a Doomsday Machine called “the Perimeter System” created by the Soviets. If anyone ...