DailyDirt: Challenges For Fun And (Non-)Profit

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

Solving really tough problems is a more collaborative process than it used to be. Luckily, it's getting easier for a wide variety of people to come together and work on these difficult challenges. Here are a few prizes looking for creative people to produce some really cool solutions.

• The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is looking for folks working on humanity's most pressing problems. Fuller had a pretty lofty goal "to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or disadvantage of anyone." [url]
• There's a $10 million prize for the Tricorder X PRIZE -- which is looking for a mobile medical device that can diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians. It also needs to make a cool "whoo whoo" sound when it wave it over people. [url]
• NASA has several Centennial Challenges that are still active -- looking for solutions to various problems like green aviation, super-strong tethers, interplanetary robots to return samples and more. Space elevators, FTW. [url]
• To find some other online challenges and games, check out what StumbleUpon has found to play. [url]  

By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

Filed Under: buckminster fuller, challenge, contest, open innovation, problems, solutions, tricorder
Companies: nasa, x prize