Google looks to tackle the big problems with the launch of the mysterious ‘Solve for X’ project

The website, a “forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork”, is designed to harness the power of crowd sourcing to create new technological solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems via online collaboration...

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7th February 2012

“Solve for X is a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems,” reads the Solve for X website.

“Radical in the sense that the solutions could help billions of people. Radical in the sense that the audaciousness of the proposals makes them sound like science fiction. And radical in the sense that there is some real technology breakthrough on the horizon to give us all hope that these ideas could really be brought to life.”

An invite-only conference was held yesterday discussing topics including topics such as low-energy, low-cost water desalinization and stretchable silicon biosensors.

Details around the project are still sketchy but it’s believed that the project may be linked to the speculative Google X, the company's top-secret lab dedicated to ambitious ideas, such as driver-less cars, web-connected appliances and even space elevators.

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