Over the past five years, user generated content has exploded, filling the Internet with reams of content and bringing along with it the concept of crowd-sourcing or depending on who you ask, co-creation. For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, it basically relies on the idea that two or five (or however big your [...]

Another lovely infographic from David McCandless at Information is Beautiful.

Inspired by a tragic accident, Katal Innovations has created an air displacement device that simulates powder landings, dramatically reducing the risk of injury for snowboarders and skiers. I am curious to see how the price of installing and maintaining these devices compares to the potential decrease in liability insurance for resorts.

This looks like fun. I believe it is the first DSi game to use both of the system’s cameras simulraneously (courtesy of Marc Pelland).

These are amazing. Coke needs to bring these back. With such a ubiquitous and recognizable brand, Coca-Cola can afford to play a little bit (via inspiredology). Shouldn’t pop (or soda for our American friends, Happy Independence Day, by the way) be fun? More pictures here.

As part of Net Change Week at MaRS, Patrick and I were offered the opportunity to work with a non-profit called Social Purchasing Portal on helping them address some of the challenges they were facing in a variety of areas.
The Social Purchasing Portal is a program whose primary goal is to create social value through the [...]

I love Post-It Notes (not as much as Patrick) and I love stop motion animation. This video is incredible (via Lucas Carlisle).
“This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my [...]

Idea Couture is currently having an internal mixtape competition. My intial plan was to take the top song from the Most Blogged artist from Hype Machine and then plug that into Grooveshark and let it autorecommend 15 songs, but then Adam suggested I open it up to Twitter, so I did.
I couldn’t find one online [...]

Well it’s not really a Flash mob, since it was coordinated by whatever agency is doing this type of work for A&E. If you are so inclined to look up the URL at the end, I’ll save you the trouble of typing it in. It is a promo for some new reality show called Hammer [...]

Is the latest film from Isenseven. The trailer is beautifully shot and has an overall good vibe.