Friday Fun: What Motivates You?
If you haven’t seen this yet, take a look. This is a great example of how to inspire your people to be more innovative by helping them work in their “sweet spot.”
Enjoy!
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LEGO takes toy ideation to the crowd
LEGO® has found a way to bring consumers, manufacturers and anyone else with an innovative toy idea to try out crowdsourcing. LEGO CUUSOO (meaning “imagination” in Japanese) is a new international web-based open innovation and crowd sourcing platform. You simply create a LEGO project, share your idea and see what other people think. Once the…
New food film made from milk is edible!
What if plastic food wrappers became a thing of the past? I saw this on CNN recently, and it details the USDA’s invention of a new film made with milk proteins, enabling people to eat the wrappers. It’s also 500 times better at keeping oxygen away from the food. The American Chemical society says it’s…
Self-repairing fabric has innovative implications
I just saw this new Nano Cure Tech clothing line, and it’s pretty interesting. The Imperial Motion company is hoping to disrupt the textile industry with a jacket that actually repairs itself. The wearer simply rubs the fabric together for a few seconds, and the hole completely disappears. You can read more about it over…
Innovation helps the (color) blind to see!
If you are one of the 300 million people who are colorblind, these videos will inspire you! The video captures the reactions of several people able to see color for the first time, thanks to a new innovation: https://www.facebook.com/cnbc/videos/10154417860219369/ Up to 300 million people worldwide are affected by red-green color vision deficiency, also called color…
Trend: A golden opportunity for investors
Here’s a trend that I find interesting: The ability to purchase gold through ATM-like machines branded Gold To Go. We first saw these machines appear this spring in Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace Hotel and in Germany. I remember wondering about the kind of investors who would seek out these machines. As it turns out, the…
Saving the whales: With an app!
Researchers are hoping a new app called WhaleALERT will reduce the number of collisions between ships and whales. This new app can alert shipping operators if whales are nearby. Environmentalists are concerned that the noise of ships traveling through areas where whales reside can not only harm the mammals, but interfere with their ability to…
Friday Fun: What Motivates You?
If you haven’t seen this yet, take a look. This is a great example of how to inspire your people to be more innovative by helping them work in their “sweet spot.”
Enjoy!
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Biomimicry, spiders, and biodegradable shoes!
Imagine a running shoe that will biodegrade in 36 hours after you dispose of them. Just put them in your sink, and back to the earth they go! The shoe company Adidas is going to introduce these shoes sometime this year. The innovation is the result of the company’s partnership with Munich-based biotech company AMSilk, for…
An invention and an inspiring story of Sam Berns
I recently caught a Ted Talks presentation featuring 17-year-old Sam Berns, a young man with a terrible and rare disease. But he didn’t let his debilitating situation define his short life. Sam died a few months ago, but his incredible journey has inspired millions around the world. I share this on my blog because one…
LEGO takes toy ideation to the crowd
LEGO® has found a way to bring consumers, manufacturers and anyone else with an innovative toy idea to try out crowdsourcing. LEGO CUUSOO (meaning “imagination” in Japanese) is a new international web-based open innovation and crowd sourcing platform. You simply create a LEGO project, share your idea and see what other people think. Once the…
Eco-friendly leather: Made from mushrooms!
Leather is great, but it’s a resource–intensive product that many would rather avoid, for environmental and animal safety reasons. Here’s the story of how one company – MycoWorks – found a solution in nature. The company created a leather-like product grown rapidly from mycelium and agricultural byproducts in a carbon-negative process. In other words: Mushrooms!…
Who are the best open innovation speakers globally?
It is nice to make a list like this! NESTA is an innovation company from the U.K. that works with high tech startups.
Wheelchair prototype lets users stand
At the Veteran’s Hospital in Minneapolis, innovators are designing a wheelchair that allows paraplegics to stand up. This video shows how it works:
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