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WATCH: The Duke Prof Experiment That Kicked Off World Cup 2014

Posted by | Jun 23, 2014

If you watched the opening ceremonies of the 2014 FIFA World Cup on June 12, then you couldn’t have missed the seemingly miraculous moment when a paraplegic wearing a robotic suit kicked the first soccer ball of one of the world’s most anticipated sporting events. It was the first time a paraplegic person has walked on his own using a device controlled entirely with his own brain, and in the days since, it’s given hope to the hundreds of thousands of people around the world confined to wheelchairs. The feat hits close to home for the Triangle. Much of...

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Duke Students Launch World’s First Free Mobile Lottery

Posted by | Apr 15, 2014

Little effort. Free cash. That’s the promise of a new mobile app called Lotto 23 launched April 10 by a pair of Duke University juniors. Brandon Sassouni and Zachary Poddela (along with Sassouni’s childhood friend in New York, Arieh Movtady) believe they’re the first in the world to create a mobile lottery that doesn’t require the oversight of government. Its potential could be industry-changing—U.S. lottery ticket sales topped $78 billion in 2012 and more than 57 percent of the population bought at least one ticket. Globally, at least 100 countries have publicly-operated lotteries. Sassouni and Poddela figure if people...

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Duke Showcases Homegrown Startups with the InCube Demo Day

Posted by | Oct 29, 2012

A few months back I had the pleasure of speaking with the crew over at Duke’s InCube – the university-funded, residential incubator – about whether it’s possible for a group of students juggling the rigors of college life to turn paper napkin ideas into real businesses. Well, as of last Friday the the time had come for students to put up or shut up as Duke University hosted the InCube Demo Day. With nearly 100 Triangle-area entrepreneurs, investors and students in attendance, 13 InCube companies presented themselves to a panel compromised of Tobi Walter of Shoeboxed.com, John Austin of...

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