I was really excited when I saw that Canada was getting some new DSL services that would give customers access to faster speeds and start making things like real time HD streaming video a reality. If you are not in Canada and haven’t heard, Bell has a new service that offers speeds up to 25Mbps download...
Consumers are smarter than ever- in fact, most consumers today would agree that when they go shopping, they want to know more about the companies they are buying from. From food to clothes to cars, the ever-expanding socially responsible shoppers want to know if the companies they are buying from...
To address better ways of integrating Transportation in Urban environments requires a very wide-angle perspective lens in order to view the whole scenario of life in an urban environment as well as those in and around the emerging world. It requires that we put ourselves on the same streets of the...
Traditionally, the notion of Beauty and Elegance is what makes classic examples of automotive design, which is designed to encourage observers to dream about an irreverent future. In the early days of the 1920’s and 1930’s these notions of dramatic proportions were predicated on people who lived...
Innovation used to be referred to be a virtuous and closed cycle. Spend money on research, develop a new big idea, create a new product, reap the benefits, and do it all over again. These days, the model of closed innovation has cracked. A workforce with less organizational loyalty, faster time to market,...
So what do we (and the brands we live by) gain by replacing our buttons with pixels and graphics? The answer is: possibilities. Touch opens a wider variety of interface and application options not constrained by old degrees of interaction physicality. It has improved on the accessibility and experience...
As designers/industrial designers/architects/visionary futurists we must be able to employ many tools, and with the passing of the hand-drawn ship curves we are now permanently entering the realm of an almost fully digital process. With so many new softwares becoming available, the creative...
From April 7th – April 10th, I’ll be attending and speaking at the eMetrics Marketing Optimization conference in Toronto. These are my thoughts, feelings, and (hopefully) epiphanies from interacting with the world’s best and brightest in the world of digital measurement. WEDNESDAY...
Don’t forget about us. A core component in the Singularity-conversation is the topic of the evolving humanization of computers. But how come we don’t speak much of the reciprocal mechanization of man? It’s a two-way street, but most of us don’t consider this in the big picture....
I stumbled upon this very innovative magazine that you can actually wear it. Like the regular subscribed magazine, each “issue”, designed by T-Post will focus on one news issue. In this past issue, you can play rock, paper, scissors with the t-shirt through a webcam. Not only it take publishing...
Modeling the role of crowdsourcing in an organization’s innovation process.