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By: Tom Lanham | 11/11/11 3:34 PM Dave Stewart calls it “an eye-opener into the world of possibilities where new technologies marry the printed page.” And basically, it’s a new iPad app that he and branding expert Mark Simmons are offering called “Creativity,” based on their 2010 book “The Business Playground: Where Creativity And Commerce Collide.” [...]

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Bad sound quality is destroying the music business. The quality of sound delivered through typical ear bud headphones devalues the music according to Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, who as a solution have created a line of high end headphones called Beats. In this article in the Financial Times, Iovine describes how he is trying [...]

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From a series entitled “27 Vintage Ads That Would Be Banned Today.” Oh how things have changed.

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Linden Tibbets has created ifttt.com (“if this then that”) to let regular web users connect sites and apps like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and Vimeo into rudimentary–but highly useful–personal mini-tools. Think of it as duct tape for webapps.

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from the New York Times 9th annual year in ideas For dairy farmers, whether to name their cows may seem like a matter of taste. But it might not be. It could be a business decision. A study of several hundred British dairies published in the journal Anthrozoös in March compared responses to a survey [...]

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A great way to advertise Copenhagen zoo.

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Mind maps are a good way of visualizing solutions to challenging problems.

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It’s just cool…. click here.

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Director Michel Gondry always has wonderful ideas for his films. This is mesmerizing.

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Half chair, half Vespa. And that’s all there is to it.

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From the New York Times 9th annual year in ideas The Great Depression inspired American fashion this year, from men’s wear by John Bartlett that looked like a stylized version of Lewis Hine’s New York to frocks by Ralph Lauren that wouldn’t feel out of place in a Dorothea Lange photograph. Meanwhile, off the runways, [...]

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A couple of years ago, Seth Frader-Thompson was driving a Prius. Priuses have little screens on the dashboard that tell you what gas mileage you’re getting, in real time, as you drive. It crossed Frader-Thompson’s mind that houses should have something similar. So he built the EnergyHub Dashboard, a little device, with a screen, that [...]

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Maybe. CEOs, teachers, and leaders claim they want creative ideas to solve problems. But creative ideas are rejected all the time. A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people have a hidden bias against creativity. We claim to like creativity, [...]

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Take a tripod, add some simple wheels and now you can create Hollywood-style moving shots with your little old non-professional camera. Featured in Fast Company with a demo video here.