The birth of ART…for Opportunities: An Interview with the Founder... May 17, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
A House Powered by Exercise May 15, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Argentina Ghost Town Re-Emerges May 15, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Management Evolution May 15, 2013 | Marina Paronetto
Creative Start-ups find Home in Abandoned gas Station... May 13, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
App Transforms iPhone into Hearing Aid
May 13, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
UK-based BioAid is an iPhone app that provides hearing impaired with a means to amplify the sounds within their environment. It transforms the iOS into a wearable hearing aid with the use of headphones. The way in which it works is quite simple.…
You get What you Tolerate…
May 13, 2013 | The Bull
One of the hardest things to do in business is to let people go. It’s never an enjoyable task and most of us will have a few sleepless nights building up to it. We’ll also internally debate whether it’s “easier” just to persevere with…
Art Meets Science: Masks Created from Strangers DNA
May 9, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Information artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has created a rather bizarre series of sculptures for her project Stranger Visions. The sculptures are based on pieces of information; DNA that has been extracted from objects located in public…
Ad uses Photographic Trick to Make it Visible only to Children
May 8, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Spanish organisation Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk has created a bus stop advert that displays two different messages to adults and children simultaneously. Two messages are shown using lenticular photography technology that…
For the Family, Friends and Supporters
May 8, 2013 | Rebekah Campbell
Every so often, an aspiring entrepreneur reaches out to ask for advice. Last week I met with a young man called Mark who contacted me on LinkedIn. He was passing through New York and heard I was here. Mark had a great startup idea and a well-formulated…
FailCon Comes to Sydney this May for Vivid Sydney
May 7, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
It’s time to stop being afraid of failure and start embracing it! Brought you by 6.2 | An Innovation Lab and held in conjunction with Vivid Sydney, FailCon Sydney is a conference celebrating failure, shared through stories by fascinating…
What do you Dislike in Business?
May 6, 2013 | The Bull
I was once asked what I disliked in business. There are a few things but my pet hate is when customers don’t pay their bills on time. It’s even worse when clear payment expectations are agreed up-front, the goods or service are delivered…
Tech Company bans Email
May 3, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Nara’s vision is to humanise the internet and they way we search for information. The company seeks to make the internet more personalised through search recommendations and by eliminating the distracting noise that can interfere…
Empirical Innovation
May 1, 2013 | Rui Rodrigues 2
People say that if you want to achieve things no one else has achieved you should do things no one else does. True, but you can always get some inspiration from specific contexts that have already generated some innovative thinking and who knows…
PivotDesk: Helping Start-ups who Need Space
May 1, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
PivotDesk is a new online platform seeking to eliminate one of the biggest barriers start-ups face, finding suitable office space. The website is able to streamline the process for budding entrepreneurs and supports online transactions…
Citizens Collaborate for Smart Water Management
April 29, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
IBM is leveraging the crowd In South Africa to keep track of water infrastructure and sources with their latest tool WaterWatchers. Launched on World Water Day in the City of Tshwane, the aim of the project is to help capture, share and analyse…
It Pays to be Dogged
April 29, 2013 | The Bull
A while ago I was involved in getting a business out of voluntary administration. Eventually we only had one minor matter to deal with to allow us to complete the deal – we had to obtain a routine, written consent from a small counter-party.…
Splitsecnd, Your Emergency Contact
April 24, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Splitsecnd is a GPS-enabled key that instantly connects the driver of a vehicle to emergency personnel when an accident occurs. It significantly reduces the time it takes for life-saving care to reach victims. It is simply plugged into the…
What Would Entice you to Move to a Shrinking City
April 24, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Niagara Falls Community Development Department is bringing a new generation of engaged youth into the town. The department is currently accepting applications for ‘urban pioneers’, luring them with the promise…
Good, Fast and Cheap – pick any two…
April 22, 2013 | The Bull 4
A few weeks ago I was in a $2 Shop listening to a customer berating the sales assistant because the $3 toy they had bought 10 days ago no longer worked. It would have been amusing had it not been for how strident the customer had been with their…
Platform to Diagnose Medical Conditions
April 19, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
CrowdMed uses the collective intelligence of hundreds of ‘medical detectives’ to assist in solving the world’s most difficult and unusual medical cases with the implementation of their online platform. The company…
How Oakley Tested their Wearable Platform
April 19, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Earlier this year Oakley introduced new product Airwave to their range that propelled goggle design and technology to the next level. With a built-in heads up display in the form of a fourteen inch feed that integrates GPS and bluetooth, …
Forensic Artists Proves Women don’t know Their own Beauty
April 17, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Dove’s public relations and marketing campaign Real Beauty launched in 2004. Ogilvy Toronto has breathed new life into the campaign enlisting the support and talent of a forensic artist. Artist Gil Zamora was employed to draw sketches…
Why Collaboration is Hard (and critical)
April 17, 2013 | Josie Gibson
“No one can whistle a symphony.” HE Luccock
Nearly five decades ago, Gordon Moore noted a phenomenon that’s survived the passage of time.
The capacity of the integrated circuit had doubled nearly every year since …
The Meteoric Rise of Creative Professional Networking site, The Loop
April 17, 2013 | White Spaces
LINKEDIN, FOR THE COOL KIDS
Late last week The Loop, Australia’s leading professional networking platform for the creative sector, relaunched ahead of expanding operations to the UK.
Sydney start-up The Loop is the brainchild of MTV…
