Online collaboration has come of age and the new scientist is a geek from anywhere; Japan, India, Russia, or Toronto. No visas, no entry fees, all you need is a digital network, and if you can solve a problem, you get rich instantly, thanks to InnoCentive. 

Driven by the wisdom of the crowd, the online lab InnoCentive is an opensource innovation marketplace where engineers, scientists, geeks and problem solvers of the world hangout for some innovative fun, passion, real life puzzle, and some cash. Yeah, I suppose you could call this the Las Vegas of the Geeks, except it is your ideas that are at stake here.

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