Infinite Innovation
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A Brief History of John Baldessari, as read by Tom Waits
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We hardly see this kind of innovations any more
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Mentors: A Young Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon
You need a good idea. Startup cash can make a real difference. Business experience...
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Marketing Myopia
Many companies define themselves almost completely through the product or services they offer. This is a common approach that can...
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The Top 5 Eco-Friendly Innovations in the Auto Industry
Green is the new black, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the automobile industry....
“What is social innovation?”
Great response from Mission Measurement’s Jason Saul.
Give Jason Saul 30 seconds, he’ll give you social innovation.
Innovation from the finest at MIT.
MIT solves one of the world’s foremost problems, getting ketchup out of the bottle.
This morning during his talk at ExpoManagement in Madrid, Bernardo Hernandez, Director of Product at Google, showed the audience this incredible video of the first self-driving car user.
…the Polite Umbrella, which folds up when you squeeze past people on the sidewalk.
http://joannagoddard.blogspot.ca/2009/07/polite-umbrella.html
GENIUS! Everyone in every major city across the world needs one of these.
How Pixar found the perfect sweet spot by mixing the best creative and technical talent.
Creators of both the stories and much of the technology for computer animation for movies such as Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars, and Brave, Pixar has a culture that drives innovation. Evolving from a Technical Director to Chief Technology Officer, Steve May’s 14-years at Pixar have helped make the company the success it is today. In this video he explains how the company created a culture where art and technology inspire one another to achieve excellence. See more innovation videos like this at WOBI.
If you like the idea of getting free energy from the sun, but don’t want to deal with the complications of installing a solar array on your roof, Umbrosa has created a lovely backyard sun shade that does double-duty—turning those rays into electricity. As umbrellas go the Eclipse’s design is striking, but it isn’t really an umbrella at all… (via Stylish Sun Shade Is the Easiest Way To Harness Solar Power For Your Home | Impact Lab)
Throw out your backyard umbrella and get one of these immediately!
Why Social Learning Benefits Your Business - Mashable covers why social learning and collaborative workplaces foster innovation and creativity and how to implement them in your organization:
Tony Bingham, president and CEO of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), defines social learning as “learning that happens outside a formal structure or classroom and is really the way people have always learned from each other. Social learning centers on information sharing, collaboration and co-creation.”
Are you or is your company making use of social learning?
Here’s an interesting early arrival in the coming boom of 3D printing.The Dubai-based company Precise Concepts is offering a service called This Is Me, which sells 3D scanned and 3D printed copies of yourself.A 6-inch, full color statue costs about $300 – $400 USD, which they scan and print off-site. The statues are made of a plastic resin with full-color print, relatively realistic phototexturing.(via Noah Raford » 3D Printing in the Mall: A Sign of Things to Come)
What’s cooler than getting a bobble head in your image, a 6-inch full color 3D printed statue of course.
(via emergentfutures)
