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Bell’s new internet service limits usage to 7 hours a month.

Posted by: Ryan White, at 7:58 pm on July 13, 2010

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...

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Karma is a B*tch

Posted by: ltse, at 1:07 pm on June 3, 2010

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...

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Bygone Nostalgic Design VS. the Emerging World.  Part 2

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 8:03 pm on May 20, 2010

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...

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Bygone Nostalgic Design VS. the Emerging World.  Part 1

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 10:01 am on May 18, 2010

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...

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Classifying Crowdsourcing Platforms

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 9:15 am on April 27, 2010

Modeling the role of crowdsourcing in an organization’s innovation process.

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,...

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From Touch To Feel- Part 2

Posted by: Mathew Lincez, at 12:44 pm on April 23, 2010

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...

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From Logs to Logarithms

Posted by: Jesse Diephuis, at 1:22 pm on April 20, 2010

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...

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Hopes and Fears from eMetrics Toronto

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 6:17 am on April 7, 2010

The digital measurement industry is in flux. From April 7th – April 10th, I’ll be attending and speaking at the eMetrics Marketing Optimization conference in Toronto, hopefully finding clarity through interacting with the world’s best and brightest digital measurement practitioners.

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...

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Embracing the Petabyte Age, Part III: The Mechanization of Man

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 8:48 am on March 29, 2010

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....

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Magazine you can wear and play

Posted by: ltse, at 8:31 am on March 29, 2010

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...

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