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Billboards reduce pollution
Here is a great idea that we’ve talked about before. More and more innovation companies around the world are working to curb the amount of air pollution – smog – that expose people to harmful toxins that can lead to lung disease. A massive billboard has been created by Lima, Peru–based engineering college UTEC. Last year,…
Top ten consumer trends for 2011
I am an avid follower of consumer trends, and I advise my clients to be as well. Here is a terrific video I found on YouTube from JWT. It has several interesting elements I found particularly comforting, like the fact that human downtime and relationships still matter even as we become more and more attached…
Seeing Mars with new eyes
If you’re a NASA fan, you probably already know what the topography of Mars looks like, thanks to fun tools like Google Mars. Before August of 2012’s historic Mars landing, I played around with it a bit. But nothing compares with the real thing: Panoramic photos of the red planet –the most beautiful photos of…
CreoPop 3D Pen uses cool nanotechnology
Here’s an exciting invention that uses nanotechnology and 3D printing – as a pen. It’s called CreoPop, and it’s not like most 3D pens I’ve seen. With CreoPop’s 3D printing pen in hand, you can create multi-dimensional pictures and structures freehand, in real time. CreoPop uses nanotechnology to provide an exciting range of inks including glittering…
Fresh air drives fresh thinking
Here are some national health statistics that should frighten you out of your chair: Our western sedentary lifestyle is responsible for an estimated $24 billion in direct medical spending. Physical inactivity is responsible for almost 200,000 or 1 in 10 deaths each year. Diabetes accounts for more than $98 billion in direct and indirect medical…
Billboard turns humidity into drinking water
In many places around the world, fresh and safe drinking water is hard to come by. But some engineering students in Peru have teamed up with an advertising agency to create a billboard that turns the nation’s humid climate into water that is so desperately needed. The University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) teamed up…

