Menlo Innovations
By: Tom Hendrickson, 5/24/2007
Xoran Technologies
By: Tom Hendrickson, 6/7/2007
CEOs For Cities
By: Tom Hendrickson, 7/19/2007
ForeSee Results
By: Tom Hendrickson, 10/18/2007
The Ann Arbor Film Fest
By: Keith Jeffries, 3/27/2008
Ann Arbor's Foodie Nation
By: Tom Hendrickson, 5/22/2008
La Rochefoucauld once said, "To eat is a necessity, to eat intelligently is an art." Leave it to a university town to embrace the genius of food. From Zingerman's to Eve, Durham's smoked fish to Morgan & York's artisanal cheeses, the farmer's market to Main Street's restaurant row, just thinking about Ann Arbor and is enough to make your mouth water.
Grave Stories In Ann Arbor
By: Tom Hendrickson, 10/30/2008
'Tis the season to be spooky. Join historian Wystan Stevens as he leads one of his tours through Ann Arbor's Forest Hill Cemetery, weaving fascinating tidbits about the city's history with creepy tales of death and demise.
LLamasoft
By: Keith Jefferies, 4/23/2009
How does a company efficiently get its stuff from the manufacturer to the warehouse to store shelves? What if the store is in Berlin? Or Singapore? What if it's hurricane season? These are just a few of the questions companies ask themselves when it comes to supply chain logistics. And Ann Arbor's LLamasoft helps them figure it all out.
The Commuter Challenge
By: Keith Jefferies, 5/7/2009
You know, sometimes it's good to try something new. Change your view, widen your horizons. SEMCOG and Metro Detroit communities are encouraging local commuters to rethink the one person-one car strategy and commit to a month of alternative transportation. Meet some people who'll do just that.
Flexsys Knows Which Way The Wind Blows
By: Keith Jefferies, 6/11/2009
It's all about efficiency - lighter, stronger, more flexible. Flexsys is taking U-M born innovations into the marketplace (that's called tech transfer for you newbies) to improve wind turbine and aerospace technologies... and, of course, grow our high tech economy.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer House
By: Keith Jefferies, 7/16/2009
Built in the early 1950s, the Palmer House in Ann Arbor has been referred to as the "Michelangelo" of Frank Lloyd Wright's residential masterpieces. And now you can spend a night, a week, or even a month in this home with no right angles.
Ann Arbor's Robot Repair Superstore (and Really Cool Non-profit)
By: Keith Jefferies, 8/13/2009
Robots. Creative writing. Dave Eggers. Kids. 826Michigan is the hippest non-profit organization in Ann Arbor. Offering writing workshops and tutoring to kids for free, and channeling the energy and enthusiasm of nearly 200 voluteers, author Dave Egger's brainchild changes both minds and lives.
Accuri Cytometers
By: Keith Jefferies, 10/8/2009
From co-founder Collin Rich's kitchen table to the offices of U-M's Tech
Transfer office to shipping high tech cytometers to labs all over the world,
Accuri Cytometers is the model for Ann Arbor startup know-how.
Ann Arbor's Veggie Fueled Party Bus
By: Keith Jefferies, 10/15/2009
Ann Arbor's B2B Party Bus is everything sustainable new urbanist hipsters ever dreamed
of: An entrepreneurial enterprise that runs small scale private transit on
secondhand cooking oil in order to transport young party-goers around downtown.
A2 Mech Shop
By: Keith Jefferies, 10/22/2009
It's all about playing nice together.
Concentrate has reported on
everything from food co-ops, to co-living communities to co-working facilities.
It only seems fair to throw a little love to the A2Mech Shop, a shared technical
space for entrepreneurial engineers and innovative mech heads.
Solidica
By: Keith Jefferies, 10/29/2009
We have officially entered the realm of sci-fi style technology. Ann Arbor's Solidica makes wireless sensors that can not only communicate the status of distant vehicles and machinery, but also predict where systems might fail. It's a brave new world after all.