Those two blocks can power the average high-consumption American home — one block can power the average European home. At least that’s the claim being made by K.R. Sridhar, founder of Bloom Energy, on 60 Minutes last night. The original technology comes from an oxygen generator meant for a scrapped NASA Mars program that’s been [...]

Interactive content on touch devices is becoming a reality since a while now. Right now is when we start seeing proper executions on smart ideas that will hopefully enhance our daily activities (or so is what they think). Here you can find a compilation of interesting solutions. Al Gore’s Our Choice In this interactive app, [...]

by Ryan McCaffrey a study of kinetics made from rhombic units cut from pine and white tape. Holds its shape in certain orientations, amazing! Jitterbug from Ryan McCaffrey on Vimeo. www.ryan-mccaffrey.com

As the concept of urban mobility gains momentum, bike manufacturers are harnessing the world’s best industrial designers to re-invent locomotion on two wheels. Monocle’s Sarah Balmond reports on design innovation in Copenhagen and Hong Kong. www.monocle.com/

Who needs smartphone apps when you’ve got a lot of ingenuity and some paper? London is dizzyingly complex, so maps are a must even for locals. Usually, they’re clunky mini books. But the Map Squared solves that problem ingeniously. Each sector of the map can be unfolded, for a zoomed-in detail: The folding technique is [...]

BY Gadi Amit Promoted as the “in” word in design circles in recent years, ‘innovation’ has become a mantra devoid of meaning. Glorified by the likes of Bruce Nussbaum of BusinessWeek and David Kelly of IDEO, “innovation” blurs the boundaries between the worlds of engineering and design. It devalues the real strength of industrial design [...]

Written by Matthew Link ‘Nothing restricts our ability to innovate more than what we already know, and what we therefore believe not to be possible’ (Geoff Mulgan, founder of think tank Demos) What is innovation? Innovation is all about doing things differently, exploiting new ideas and taking risks. It enables businesses to bring new and [...]

All of sudden this little bicycle-friendly detail showed up on the urban landscape in Copenhagen one day. I’m quite sure that very few people have noticed it, except for the people who roll up next to it. Which is the point, really. I’m talking about the railings that the man is holding onto and resting [...]

Design and marketing are way more important than engineering for consumer Internet companies, argues angel investor Dave McClure By Dave McClure Symphonies of Code Design and marketing aren’t just as important as engineering: They are way more important. Here are the two main reasons why: 1. Addictive User Experience (Design) and Scalable Distribution Methods (Marketing) [...]

Good business outcomes treat design as a holistic process that pulls in savvy marketing and research, as well as smart ideas, says IDEO’s Diego Rodriguez By Diego Rodriguez Good design does not always equal good business. But good business outcomes—especially when the goal is to create new sources of value in the world—are most often [...]