With memories still fresh of a boom when lots of new ideas quickly took root, it may seem as though all that is needed to make the money flow is an investment banker with a brainwave.
FANS of "Yes, Minister", a 1980s British sitcom, will recall that whenever Sir Humphrey Appleby, the emollient civil servant, labelled a brainwave by his minister "courageous", a climbdown was inevitable.
Mr Tusk's brainwave was to hand the issue not to a special ministry (easily nobbled by Poland's change-resistant civil servants) but to lawmakers.
Engineers had learned that a resistor, which restricts the flow of electrical current, is best made of certain materials and a capacitor, which stores electrical charge, of others.On July 24th 1958, however (the date was well worth recording), Mr Kilby had a brainwave.
His firm's technology has reduced the brainwave pickup to the minimum specification imaginable a single electrode.
These patients, however, soon progressed from this state to an even odder one, according to a report in Sleep Medicine.One of the principal ways to measure sleep is to monitor brainwave activity, which can be done by placing electrodes on the scalp in a technique known as electroencephalography (EEG).
It tracks sleep quantity and quality by measuring brainwave activity to determine how long the wearer spends in light, deep and rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep.David recorded his sleep data along with information on his diet, health supplements, exercise and alcohol consumption, uploading it all onto the Zeo website.
Zeo, another start-up, has developed an alarm clock that comes with a headband to measure people's brainwave activity at night and chart their sleep on the web.As people create more such self-tracking data, firms will start to mine them and offer services based on the result.
Though technologists and bloggers chuckle at how every business presentation now has to have its long-tail section, most are envious of Mr Anderson, whose brainwave quickly became the most fashionable business idea around.Whether a blockbuster film, a bestselling novel, or a chart-topping rap song, popular culture idolises the hit.
Wires attached to the back of the probe lead to a computer that translates the electrical signals into a picture of the heartbeat, brainwave or whatever.
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