LG converts its smaller, crazier projects into startups

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37 points·gaoprea··6 comments

I'd really like to know what the details are:

> since LG employees can go off, form a startup and -- if everything collapses within three years -- come back to the company no questions asked.

Is this an open offer to all employees, or just to those that decide to join these sanctioned startups, and how does one go about getting your "crazy project" inside LG turned into a startup. Is it in their contracts, or just spoken? It's certainly an interesting approach.

I think there's an interesting idea here - and an interesting article to be written on the topic - but this one didn't go where I wanted it to.

That Acanvas self-charging design is brilliant. You hang up the painting above a wall socket and it drops a cord down to the socket to charge when the battery gets low. Then it pulls the cord back up so it appears wireless the majority of the time.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acanvas/acanvas-the-cor...

The video shows three canvases next to each other, how would the ones on the sides charge? Most people don't have three wall sockets spaced exactly like how they show the three frames

https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/011/165/794/c4b7b104c6d147d...

This animated GIF shows it dropping into a "receptacle" which is just a box with a cord, presumably plugged in to the nearest actual receptacle.

Interesting idea, for sure.

> Early birds can grab one of the $499 devices for $399 and get a year's free Netflix-for-art subscription, which'll set everyone else back $120.

So their plan is to charge more than Netflix, but for public domain pictures that are tied to specific hardware? Yeah, no thanks.

This is the first "Nordic-style" startup plan I've seen from a major tech company. Have any of the other majors tried something like this?

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