Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize on February 28, 2008, and made a wish: for help creating, launching and propagating a Charter for Compassion.  Since that day, thousands of people have contributed to the process and yesterday, the Charter was unveiled to the world.
The Charter for Compassion is a cooperative effort to restore not only [...]

In an age where we have Google and Microsoft mapping technology available that allows us to see such voyeuristic details as the front door of a building or a bird’s eye view of a celebrity’s backyard, it’s sometimes refreshing to look at a road map with a different lens, one that only reveals the country’s [...]

A retailer’s primary role may be that of curator and tastemaker, but that doesn’t mean that the crowds can’t pitch in to help. Modcloth is a Pittsburgh-based online retailer that sells affordable, independent designer women’s fashion. With a recently launched initiative called Be the Buyer, ModCloth encourages its customers to help choose which items to [...]

San Francisco-based designer, Mitchell Heinrich has created a new form of street art using scent.
Since early human cave wall painting, graffiti has remained largely unchanged as a medium.  The style, tools and purpose have evolved over the centuries, but still nobody has successfully broken free of its visual nature. From this line of [...]

London-based Hu2 Design (http://www.hu2.com/index.php ) is an innovative company that creates and sells quirky die-cut wall stickers that are great for making temporary changes to a space since they’re made of low-tack adhesive vinyl that allow for simple installation and residue-free removal from any flat surface.  The stock designs are available in a wide [...]

There’s a growing dining trend in several North American cities that has been gaining a lot of momentum.  Instead of trying to just bring new customers to their restaurants, innovative thinking restaurateurs are also bringing their restaurants to new customers.

Catering trucks and street food don’t have the best reputations–most have been known as “roach coaches”, [...]

What if we knew exactly where our trash was going and how much energy it took to make it disappear?  Would it make us think twice about buying bottled water or “disposable” razors?

The supply chain for products we use is something that has undergone rigorous analysis and innovations that have resulted in improved efficiencies, but [...]

Here’s the latest version of the “Shift Happens” video.  Fascinating facts and statistics regarding the surge of emerging technologies and social media innovations.  Enjoy the mind candy.
The following quotation from 60 years ago seems more relevant today than ever before.
“Before I left England for China in 1936 a friend told me that there exists a [...]

In this provocative presentation from July’s Global TED (Technology, Entertainment Design) Conference in Oxford, England, Dan Pink overviews some of the key ideas that he details in his upcoming book, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, which is due to be released before the end of the year. He’s previously written “A [...]

As a promotional tie-in corresponding with the launch of their 2009 series of “Dunny” action figures, toy and apparel designers Kid Robot have organized a mobile phone-based scavenger hunt in Manhattan centered around scanning Quick Response (QR) codes.
After downloading an application for an iPhone or Blackberry that enables the user to scan the QR codes, [...]