Infinite Innovation

Scanning the web for innovation stories that spark inspiring ideas. Curated by the people behind the World Innovation Forum. The World Innovation Forum New York 2013 will be held on June 12 & 13 at the New York City Center. For details visit: wifny.com
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“Ignore the haters” says Dennis Crowley. 

When you are mapping out technology horizons and making forecasts, you focus on opportunities at the intersection of fields. If you want to innovate, look for the edges. The fast way to find an innovation is to make a connection across disciplines that everybody else has missed.

Stefik and Stefik 2004, 167-68 (via johnryanjournal)

Innovation does not come from a vacuum, apparently it comes from the edges. 

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.

opulenttremendousstupendous:

The guy you see here got kicked out of university and started a business in Spain at 17 with limited resources. 

Innovation, creativity, failure, hard work and waiting for your moment — all this and more is found in this exclusive video featuring Pau García-Milá.

He’s a dynamic, adorable speaker.  Click for English titles on the player if needed.  It’s worth it.

Go Geeks Go!

Today someone here at WOBI ran into an ice cream fundraiser being held to help beat cancer that was put on by the robotics team from Union City High School in Union City, NJ. 

The picture above is taken from one of their qualifying matches that you can watch here on YouTube. And yes, those are pom poms.

We talked to the team coach and he said the fundraiser was the idea of his students.

Their robotics team has a Facebook page that, in our opinion, deserves many more “likes”.  So if you believe in innovation and young people doing good while pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — why not go ahead and click

springwise:

Site matches event organizers with land owners willing to rent

We’ve seen platforms that help those with parking spots or gardens loan out their assets to those looking to rent, and now we’ve come across a new startup that’s doing something similar on a bigger scale. UK-based Field Lover recently launched a field-owner/event-organizer matchmaking site. READ MORE…

Very handy if you’re trying to plan your own Woodstock and don’t have time to knock on barn doors?

Tech Billionaires Plan Audacious Mission to Mine Asteroids

There’s gold in them there hills. You know, those ones floating around in space. Asteroids contain many tons of precious metals, making them irresistible to scientists, aerospace engineers, futurists, fiction writers … and tech billionaires.

A group of wealthy, adventurous entrepreneurs will announce on Apr. 24 a new venture called Planetary Resources, Inc., which plans to send swarms of robots to space to scout asteroids for precious metals and set up mines to bring resources back to Earth, in the process adding trillions of dollars to the global GDP, helping ensure humanity’s prosperity and paving the way for the human settlement of space.

Full story here.

Content Curators Are The New Superheros Of The Web

By Steven Rosenbaum  CEO, Magnify

Rosenbaum offers great, thoughtful guest blog post on Fast Company about the value of curation  — click through the photo to read. Another question would be why is curation so hot right now?  Beyond the ever-increasing masses of data, it could also be down to the failure of search.  As much as they change the algorithms to keep out spammers and provide relevant links, it seems like search, without humans, is getting worse.  Do you agree?

Original photo by Susie Felber for wobi.com

How To Create And Share Awe [Need To Know]

Filmmaker and futurist Jason Silva has been described as “part Timothy Leary, part Ray Kurzweil, and part Neo from The Matrix.”

New iPad game and how it relates to Jane McGonigal:

paleojournalism:

Domino’s Pizza pulled a “The Last Starfighter.”

They’ve created a free iPad game that lets you assemble an imaginary pizza with touch and gestures. It’s apparently a challenging game with exacting standards for how well the player should be crafting a pizza. If you do well enough, the game…