One company has made swimming safer and more fun. Ask any parent about trying to teach their kids to swim and they’ll most likely tell you a story of their child being too afraid to get in the water. Whether it’s a river, the ocean, or even just the shallow end of a pool, the [...]

Nokia has unveiled the first pedal-powered phone battery charger. According to the Financial Times cyclists will be able to plug their handsets into a charger mounted on their handlebars and connected to a dynamo that harnesses electricity from the wheels. It would take two-and-a- half hours for a cyclist riding at 15km an hour to [...]

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

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 Hockney started using his iPhone to create paintings in 2008 and in 2010 started using the iPad too. An exhibition of the art he’s created, called ‘Fresh Flowers’ is now on display in a gallery in Toronto.

A beautifully designed car by Norman E. Timbs. according to Supercars.net mechanical engineer Timbs created this dramatic streamliner in the 1940s which in many ways was the ultimate American hot rod. He designed and fabricated much of the project himself which included a custom aluminum body and steel chassis.  At first the Streamliner was only [...]

Howard Gossage, an icon of 1960′s advertising, talking about “mammanoids” and “tediophobes.” mammonoids and tediophobes

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 [...]

This is a nice piece on seeing different perspectives that appeared in the Atlantic and was written by Laura Seargeant Richardson, a principal designer at frog design, a global innovation firm. Javier Hans is on a mission to change how the world’s youth think about creativity and innovation. At nine, he founded Inventors Without Borders. At 15, [...]

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

You can now download a free chapter from our book The Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide.

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 [...]

You will have seen the announcement earlier this year that pop sensation Lady Gaga has become the creative director for instant camera company Polaroid. The cynical amongst us might view this as a publicity stunt that won’t translate into anything more than a few column inches. After all, now that all pictures are pretty much [...]

When they’ve outstayed their welcome, just stick them on a ship. Created by Poteet Architects in Texas.

This an online video for driving direction device Tom Tom’s new selection of voices, including the Dark Lord himself.