Bjork has released her new album, Biophilia – which was partly recorded on an iPad – as a series of apps, becoming the world’s first “app album.” She described it as a multimedia collection “encompassing music, apps, internet, installations, and live shows.”
IDEO’s Tim Brown at a recent TED talk. Interviews with Tim appear in Business Playground, the book.
A new study published in the Journal of Psychological Science helps explain why many people try to pooh-pooh novel ideas. They find it scary. Research by the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of the experiments that involved 200 subjects, showed that while people say they want creativity, in reality they reject it partly because creative [...]
A very innovative use of the iPad to create light shows. It’s a great demo of ad agency Dentsu London’s mission: “Making Future Magic.” More details on the project and some other inspiring ideas here.
We talk in our book about innovative umbrella designs, well here’s a new one we like. Check it out here.
Without a culture of creativity in a business and without resorting to just copying other people’s ideas (hello China), innovation becomes impossible. And innovation is what drives growth in the good times, and survival in challenging ones. The President of Ohio-based bathroom fixtures company Moen, David Lingafelter, is convinced that innovation driven by creativity is [...]
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 [...]
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.
A cool steampunk desktop computer design from here.
An IBM study of of one-on-one CEO interviews, with over 1,500 corporate heads and public sector leaders across 60 nations and 33 industries asked them what drives them in managing their companies in today’s world.
A camera that records everything you see. A cool little camera that fits behind your ear from Looxcie.
This an online video for driving direction device Tom Tom’s new selection of voices, including the Dark Lord himself.
These ads captures why kids love LEGO through simple visuals and no words. Perfect.
