Eco-Friendly Products Lead 2014
A new smartphone app is allowing inventors and entrepreneurs to meet and network with key influencers in their own geographic locations. The “influencer of the month series” is a free iOS app from HereOnBiz, and features a geo-location service that helps bring together like-minded professionals. Influencers simply select a city in which they want to…
Imagine stumbling into your kitchen in the morning and activating your coffee machine – with a yawn! For me, anytime innovation marries coffee experiences, I pay attention. I recently saw an article about coffee roaster Douwe Egberts trying out the yawn-activated technology on unsuspecting, tired airline passengers at an airport vending machine. The machine dispensed…
This June I’ll be in Phoenix to moderate this year’s Conference on Social Product Development & Co-Creation. I’m partnering once again with PDMA, and this year co-creation pioneer, Local Motors, is helping us raise the bar for this exciting, ground-breaking event. Social Product Development is making a major impact on the way companies are innovating now…
I put this in a category of innovation that has more to do with benevolence than my usual posts about technology or cutting-edge industry news. Because sometimes innovative ideas are simple and kind. And if they are repeatable, that’s a great thing! Kudos to Mark+, the company that created Troco Coletivo — which translates as…
We all want to get employees excited about innovation, especially when changes are something they themselves helped create. They want to talk about it, and they should! And we should help, so that excitement builds across the organization and spills over to your customers and to the world. So what’s the best way to help…
How does one “go green” with only 420 square feet of living space? The founder of Treehugger.com and VP of Interactive Media at Discovery’s Planet Green is getting media attention this week for engaging hundreds of thousands of people in a contest that resulted in some truly innovative architectural solutions. Graham Hill launched the contest…