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    • This Could Be Big hits the road: SXSW

      By Bill Weir, David Miller, Justin Bare & Mark Monroy | This Could Be Big – Fri, Mar 15, 2013

      South by Southwest, the annual intersection of all things creative, met this week in Austin, Texas for a taste of what’s new in music, film, art, and for our purposes, tech and innovation.

      Here, the tools that may shape the future of our digital lives are put on display by developers who convene each year to share ideas and reveal their latest technological creations.

      With the Texas backdrop of smoked meat, live music on 6th street and eccentric characters looking for a good time, we set out to find out what would be big.

      With the legend of Twitter, which was announced here in 2006, looming large, we canvassed SXSW looking for the coolest and wackiest technological innovations.

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    • Game Strives for Real-World Change

      By Bill Weir, Nick Poppy & Brad Marxer | This Could Be Big – Mon, Mar 11, 2013

      Nicholas Kristof – of the multiple Pulitzer Prizes and best-selling books and New York Times column – is bringing his storytelling to a new medium: games.

      In 2009, Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, wrote the best-selling book “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.” The book, a journalistic call-to-action to give women power through economic development, inspired a well-received PBS documentary last year. But the couple knew they needed to reach beyond the book-buying, documentary-watching crowd to a wider audience.

      “There are already so many thick reports about the incredible benefits of women’s empowerment. But a lot of those reports don’t necessarily get read,” Kristof said.

      Kristof and WuDunn turned to one of the fastest-growing mediums of the 21st century -- games -- to help tell their story. They partnered with the New York City-based nonprofit game developer Games for Change, and the game company Zynga, to create “Half the Sky Movement: The

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    • The 3D Printing Revolution gets its First Pen

      By Bill Weir, David Miller, Justin Bare & Mark Monroy | This Could Be Big – Thu, Mar 7, 2013

      Boston toy company Wobble Works uploaded a pitch video to Kickstarter of its newest toy, the 3Doodler, awaking a sleeping desire to write in 3-D.

      The 3Doodler, a plastic extrusion pen that resembles a hot glue gun, heats up plastic filament to about 270 degrees Celsius, or 518 Fahrenheit. But unlike a glue gun, the plastic cools almost instantly, allowing you to lift the 3Doodler off the paper and draw in air.

      In the Kickstarter video, the moment the pen was lifted off the surface to make a simple 3-D box donations came in at a frantic pace.

      Almost immediately, the company surpassed its modest goal of raising $30,000 – so far, it has raised more than $2.1 million, with more than two weeks left to go in the campaign.

      Wobble Works sees its latest gadget as an introduction to 3-D printing and intends to sell the 3Doodler for $75 apiece. Owners can download stencils to create different shapes, or upload their own.

      Even though Wobble Works has raised a ton of money, it hasn’t received a

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