If you’re someone who enjoys healthy growth via indoor plants, you’re well aware of the messy chore to continually re-pot those plants. Here’s an interesting invention: A planter that grows as your houseplants do. This pot, GROWTH, is from Studio Ayaskan, and uses origami-based geometry which will transform to accommodate the growth of the plant…
If you haven’t heard and seen “Sophia” talk and interact with people before, you should give this a look. Sophia is Hanson Robotics’ latest robotic creation. The company says it created her based on actress Audrey Hepburn, with a little bit of company founder David Hanson’s wife. The world got its first look at Sophia…
There was a time when many companies made their employees feel guilty and even afraid of losing their jobs if they took vacation time. Thankfully, most have come to realize that taking time off and recharging is critical to people giving their best on the job. Fast Company is featuring several tech companies who are…
As an innovator, do you ever get stuck coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives? My friend Robert Tucker over at Innovation Resource has recently posted eight idea generators to help you realize new possibilities: For most of my professional life, I’ve studied the creative habits of highly successful innovators and the organizations they lead….
WD-40 has been a partner/client of ours for many years, and is very savvy when it comes to creating a culture of innovation. What a great story in HBR about their culture! Here is a snippet: WD-40 is an unlikely setting for such a learning-obsessed culture. It is hardly a glamorous brand, but it is…
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…
We’re now just six weeks away from our CLEAR™VIEW event, a highly interactive, three day leadership experience for top executives charged with driving business performance through organizational capability and transformational change. There is still plenty of time to sign up! The CLEAR™VIEW program is focused on building practical strategies to address challenges in agility, change,…
Online shopping is expected to reach half a Trillion dollars this decade. Everyone thought brick and mortar stores would be replaced by online shopping, and yet real retail shops bring in 10 times what online stores do. Here’s an interesting profile of two entrepreneurs who started thier venture from a New York apartment, hoping to…
A Silicon Valley pizzeria has launched the first-of-its-kind pizza robot. And it’s not just one robot, but a pizza-making army. Zume, a Silicon Valley startup, is competing with Domino’s and Pizza Hut. Zume has also also created special delivery trucks that will finish cooking pizzas along the delivery route. That part of the business still…
Remember those old plaster casts? I remember the discomfort of these casts for broken bones, but here’s an idea that I thought I’d share today: Bone-Aid casts, that I think might make the process of healing broken or fractured bones more comfortable. These were designed by students from Tunghai University in China. The casts aren’t…
