Infinite Innovation

alexob: The 2 in 1 sustainable hanger bag!The H+ bag - what a...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:52:51 -0400

alexob:

The 2 in 1 sustainable hanger bag!
The H+ bag - what a great piece of innovation. Absolutely in love with it.

From bag to hanger in just three steps!

edgeperspectives: The future needs fixing Helping people hack...

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:57:13 -0400

edgeperspectives:

The future needs fixing

Helping people hack the stuff they already have - the Sugru story (h/t to Helen Walters)

A bit obsessed with Sugru this week.

bijan: fred-wilson: i think @dens is rocking a galaxy s3 in...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:47:51 -0400

bijan:

fred-wilson:

i think @dens is rocking a galaxy s3 in this video. great video, great ad, great product, great company

Awesome

“Ignore the haters” says Dennis Crowley.

ideatrotter: Silicon Valley’s Innovation Secret Booz &...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:52:44 -0400

ideatrotter:

Silicon Valley’s Innovation Secret

Booz & Company and the Bay Area Council Economic Institute set out to identify the “secret sauce” that makes the San Francisco Bay Area a global innovation leader. According to research, the region’s success stems not just from its institutions or the research budgets of its companies. It comes from a deeply ingrained innovation culture that permeates the business and research community and distinguishes the Bay Area from its competitors.

What IS the Bay Area’s secret sauce?

fastcompany: Three months before Laika’s 3-D stop-motion...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:34:30 -0400

fastcompany:

Three months before Laika’s 3-D stop-motion feature ParaNorman was set to start production, the company’s breakthrough workflow technology—making puppet faces via 3-D color printing—was spitting out disasters.

“They looked awful,” says Brian McLean, Laika’s director of rapid prototyping (RP, or 3-D printing). “The skin tones were terrible and inconsistent. What you saw on the computer screen was completely different than what printed out. There were some ‘Oh shit!’ moments when we realized we’d jumped head first into shooting this movie using this process, and we now had to figure out a way to make it work.”

By sheer force of will, scientific process, and ulcer medication, McLean’s team solved the system quirks.

Behind ParaNorman’s Breakthrough 3-D-Printing-Driven Animation Process

Ulcer medication is a key part to any innovation process.

marsmusings: Ever wonder how innovation “really” works? #Funny

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:51:21 -0400

marsmusings:

Ever wonder how innovation “really” works?

#Funny

bournemouthsocialmedia: here at hyperbrand were geeky, so you...

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:30:18 -0400

bournemouthsocialmedia:

here at hyperbrand were geeky, so you dont have to be! Which does mean that when we come accross things that excite us we will share them with you, but only in the hope that it will make your day a little pinch better. The moment I saw this last night I new that this would be on the blog first thing this morning. Google have been slow recently with innovation, apart from rumors of a google glasses product and some very innovative viral videos they havent really been advertising how they pushing the corners of the web as we know it.

Or at least until this project was released - the chrome experiment they has nailed it, working in conjunction with the london science museum they have developed five interactive projects, where internauts interact with a series of physical projects that are set up in the science museum. This is definitely worth a play if you have yet to take a look and it looks like here at hyperbrand we are going to start brushing up on our HTML5.

Welcome to the future!

ramblings-of-a: From: Adfreak Awesome way to keep your edgy and...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:55:36 -0400

ramblings-of-a:

From: Adfreak

Awesome way to keep your edgy and attract all the right kinds of attention. Innovative advertisement!

Very cool ad!

Small businesses are innovating at unprecedented levels.

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:01:29 -0400

Small businesses are innovating at unprecedented levels.

itsnanab: Crazy cool interactive billboard, created for TNT’s...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:54:05 -0400

itsnanab:

Crazy cool interactive billboard, created for TNT’s show PERCEPTION

Innovative advertising and innovative technology come together to do the impossible… stop New Yorkers in their tracks and make them pay attention.

yellofish: inspire identity

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:42:45 -0400

yellofish:

inspire identity

goodideapublichealth: A Liter of Light This cheap innovation...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:00:18 -0400

goodideapublichealth:

A Liter of Light

This cheap innovation brings light into the homes of many people who can not afford electrical light. All that’s needed is an used plastic bottle, a liter of water and a little bit of bleach.

MyShelter Foundation aims to bring the Solar Bottle Light to 1 million Philippine homes by 2012 and welcomes donations and volunteers.

Such an inspiring story of how a simple solution has made a major impact on the lives of these residents.

springwise: Indoor positioning without wifi or GPS via magnetic...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:57:12 -0400

springwise:

Indoor positioning without wifi or GPS via magnetic fields for location-based apps

Location-based apps for indoor purposes typically rely on wifi or similar technologies to determine the user’s position. Finnish IndoorAtlas, however, has come up with an alternative. Tapping into the magnetic fields that are naturally present on Earth, IndoorAtlas has launched a platform developers can use to create highly accurate location-based mobile apps without wifi or GPS. READ MORE…

A compass for the 21st century.

Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real - Technology Review

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:23:47 -0400

Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real - Technology Review:

smarterplanet:

Kiji McCafferty

In the summer of 2009, Yelp quietly added a feature to its iPhone app that blurred the line between the real and the virtual. If you held your handset up and looked at the world through its screen, you’d see little floating tags containing the names, user ratings, and other details of businesses around you.

The feature, called Monocle, was an experiment with augmented reality—one of many that appeared around this time, as companies tossed around various ways to mesh digital content with the real world, hoping to catch consumers’ eyes (see “TR10: Augmented Reality” and “New Reality”).

Several years later, augmented reality is still mostly used by early tech adopters, but it’s starting to graze the mainstream, helped by the massive popularity of smartphones and tablets, and their constantly improving processors and sensors, along with the growth of high-speed wireless data networks. Apps featuring augmented reality are available for everything from gaming to driving to furniture arrangement. Slowly but surely, augmented reality is becoming less of a novelty and more of a utility.

Is AR finally becoming a reality for the mainstream?

marktech: Nike+ House of Innovation Nike’s House of...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:56:00 -0400

marktech:

Nike+ House of Innovation

Nike’s House of Innovation looks like a house of fun!

nasdaq: digitalspark: Creativity and innovation, while not the...

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:08:21 -0400

nasdaq:

digitalspark:

Creativity and innovation, while not the same thing, both are iterative activities.

They both benefit from answering these six questions.

Always good to remind ourselves of the essentials, especially at the beginning of a new week!

If you want to innovate, but aren’t sure where to start here’s a great set of questions to get you going.

crisdias: A road printer? (by vankubv) Need a road repaired?...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:52:02 -0400

crisdias:

A road printer? (by vankubv)

Need a road repaired? It’s easy, just print one out!

disrupt-it: 30 second MBA: How do you stimulate innovation? 3...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:38:06 -0400

disrupt-it:

30 second MBA: How do you stimulate innovation?

3 things to keep in mind when trying to stimulate innovation

wildgoosechasing: Audi City “Digital Showroom” Brands are...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:58:45 -0400

wildgoosechasing:

Audi City “Digital Showroom”

Brands are consistently on the look out for newer and more intuitive ways to elevate the customer experience at their store, through the integration of sophisticated technology.

Just take a look at the Audi City Store. It consists of multiple interactive digital walls, controlled by pressure sensor floor plates and large tablet-style devices allowing customers to create a car from the group up and see the car in true scale on the huge digital walls in front of them.

This also brings to mind the new Nike concept store I featured a couple of months ago and how they sought to integrate digital and physical elements (just realized Tumblr had somehow deleted this post). The tactile objects prototype developed by DigitasLab and Ayotle is also worth revisiting.

Audi is another innovative brand integrating the physical and virtual worlds.

smarterplanet: Ikea’s Augmented-Reality Catalog Might Be the...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:00:55 -0400

smarterplanet:

Ikea’s Augmented-Reality Catalog Might Be the Company’s Best-Made Product Yet | Gizmodo

We’ve already shared our favorite items from Ikea’s 2013 product catalog, but what we didn’t know was that as of July 31st, the catalog itself will be an interactive product of the latest augmented-reality technology.

iOS and Android users who download the Ikea catalog app, will be able to unlock video features, interactive experiences with products on the page, photo galleries and additional decorating inspiration.

Developed by the creative agency McCann, the AR app is a project that the Swedish build-it-yourself furniture empire has been working on for quite a while, since 2011 when they first expressed interset in bridging the print/digital divide. Linus Karlsson, Global Chief Creative Officer of McCann, explained to Wired that replacing the paper catalog with an entirely digital product wouldn’t make sense, “If you had a magazine that had 211 million copies in circulation, you just would’t end it. That would be crazy.”

With this added digital layer, shopping Ikea’s collection will become a little bit easier—an “X-ray” feature allows you to peer inside cabinets, for example, making a trip to the brick-and-mortar store potentially unnecessary. (Not enough of Ikea’s collection is available for purchase online to cut out a trip to the store entirely.)

Does anyone else consider the arrival of the Ikea catalog to be just as exciting as Christmas morning?