Who said popsicles (or ice lollies if you’re English) were just for kids? See more here.

Plenty of people’s Twitter feeds appear to be connected directly to their egos, but one scientist’s is actually wired to his brain. In April, University of Wisconsin doctoral student Adam Wilson — working with adviser Justin Williams, above — tweeted 23 characters just by thinking. He focused his attention on one flashing letter after another [...]

David Owens of Vanderbilt University‘s Owen Graduate School of Management outlines what his research has shown him are the the most common hurdles for innovation that a company might encounter: – Failures of innovation are failures of ideas, and to meet this challenge companies need to train people to use the tools and processes that [...]

Domino’s Pizza in the UK have created augmented reality (AR) billboards that let passerby order pizza through their smart phones. According to Creativity Online: “Consumers can scan the posters, placed over 6,000 sites and communicating a special ’555′ deal, with their smartphone, download a mobile ordering app and become a Facebook fan, all while standing [...]

Philippe Starck is a French product designer who has designed everything from toothbrushes to hotel interiors and is now creative director of interior design company Yoo. His simple, iconic and often startling designs entered the mass market when in 2002 he created a number of beautifully designed, but inexpensive, products for Target stores. Starck writes [...]

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Probably the best speech on creativity I’ve seen

According to Stephen Johnson, innovation expert and author of “Where do Good Ideas Comes From?”

MIT researchers are developing a microchip that could help blind people regain partial eyesight. Though it won’t completely restore normal vision, it will enable a blind person to recognize faces and navigate a room without assistance. The chip, which is encased in titanium to prevent water damage, will be implanted onto a patient’s eyeball. The [...]

IDEO’s Tim Brown at a recent TED talk. Interviews with Tim appear in Business Playground, the book.

This is a great idea. A website where people can submit their own, and help develop others’ ideas. Ones like this crafty cord concealer. Quirky.com launches a new product every few days and then sells the products on its site.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Here’s one. The OneDown mousetrap swings upright from horizontal due to a rodent’s own weight to clearly indicate that it has been trapped. There is no risk of snapping the fingers and creating any mess or smell as the trap doesn’t [...]

Hunch is an interesting new business idea It helps people make decisions by asking you 10 questions and using the collective knowledge of the community to give advice. this is how they describe it on the website….. Look. Decision-making is difficult, and decisions have to be made constantly. What should I be for Halloween? Do [...]

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Closed stores look ugly for passerby and detract from the streets they are, making them look less attractive and vibrant. That’s why the idea of dressing them up with attractive fake shop fronts, with colorful window displays is such a good one. Fake shop fronts are starting to appear in the South East of England, [...]