Blog posts about: innovation

I got to get me one of these! Check out the crema… and what a great bit of innovation to drive down the cost of a typical espresso machine (£200+) to £70… Dear Santa… For the record, it is not necessary to modify the Presso in any way to achieve great tasting, rich shots of espresso replete [...]

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I was interested to read of a new innovative deployment for Vail Resorts, a client of my previous agency iCrossing. A few months before its five ski resorts open for the season, the Colorado-based Vail Resorts has unveiled a preview of something called Epic Mix, a set of Web and mobile apps based on skiers’ [...]

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’tis a momentous day. Although it’s not either the space port itself or the start of the first commercial flights, the New Mexico runway that Branson’s Virgin Galactic tourist space flights will launch from. In an interesting interview on CNN below he states that although the price of a flight is expensive at £137,000 per [...]

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That’s the name of a brilliant slideshow created by Google’s Creative Labs. You’ll find a lot of interesting HTML5 apps, iPhone apps, visualization tools, 3D projections, art projects, creative YouTube videos, crowdsourcing services and many other interesting things. Packing together 106 works from the “creative internet” into one Google slideshow. It’s a visual grab bag of [...]

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This blog post was originally a guest post over at the Cubeworks blog – blog.cubeworks.co.uk Nothing like starting with a bang! Here are 3 bleeding edge buzzwords of the modern age that have their own heady mix of excitement, confusion, science fiction & reality. I’m a Generation X’er and therefore grew up with the evolution [...]

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Great post over on Mashable which disappointingly doesn’t state any Brian Aldiss inventions… when I see him next I’ll ask!! 1. The iPad: 1968 We all giggled earlier this year when Apple announced the iPad. Some of us made jokes about certainfeminine products. But it looks like Arthur C. Clarke went down the the same naming [...]

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I first read about transmedia in Wired, and since it seems I’ve been talking more and more about with people (anyone who can get their noodle round it) I thought I’d quote the parts from the article (all of which can be read here). Esther Robinson got off the R train in Astoria, Queens, and [...]

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As featured in August’s Wired Magazine here are some cracking photos of Lego in global use as an alternate building material for re-patching walls. I love it. Look Hove here I come! http://www.dispatchwork.info

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HTML 5 is still under development as the next major upgrade to the language that supports the web. Amongst other things the new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins. With an impressive credit list the new Arcade Fire video is a cracking early example of what [...]

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I’m reading a 10 page article over on the fantastic Strategy + Business website of the global consulting company Booz & Co. and thought I’d share my thoughts and some snippets. The article is in reaction to a global survey conducted across the worlds advertising and marketing agencies and speak authoritatively about the challenges the industry [...]

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