A Zero Energy House May 22, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Recharge Your Business May 22, 2013 | Angelique Milojevic
Why a bit of ‘Niggle’ is Important… May 22, 2013 | The Bull
PRO Files: The Critical Creative Society... May 20, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
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
Spanish design firm Elii has created the JF-Kit House, based on “an image of a possible future where citizens produce part of their domestic energy requirements with their own physical activities.”
Each room in the concept…
Argentina Ghost Town Re-Emerges
May 15, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
An Argentinian town that was underwater for a quarter of a century has re-emerged as an eerie ghost town that according to the New York Daily looks like a bizarre, post-apocalyptic landscape that captures a traumatic moment in time.
The Epecuen…
Management Evolution
May 15, 2013 | Marina Paronetto
Organizations are comfortable with the term ‘Manager’, but very rarely, maybe never I hear ‘Facilitator’. Managers usually implement projects, strategies, sometimes a vision. They are required to minimise waste, allocate resources…
Creative Start-ups find Home in Abandoned gas Station
May 13, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
A retro style gas station in Los Feliz, Los Angeles is on the fast track to becoming a community orientated, multi-purpose space. It will be radically transformed into a ‘marketplace where start-up companies and individuals can…
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…
