What Would The World Look Like Without Apple [Infographic]
ShareApple has made its mark on the world and everyone is looking for their next great application or product. So let’s take a few minuets and look at the world if Apple didn’t exist. Read More
The Cycle Of Green Innovation
Share A new Center for American Progress (CAP) report by Sean Pool presents the “network lifecycle” approach to clean energy innovation. The paper shows how the innovation lifecycle of clean energy technology can be divided into five phases, each involving a different an evolving network of participants with its own challenges and policy needs. Freeing our economy from its dangerous addiction to fossil fuels and averting the calamitous risks... Read More
Amazing Water Bottle Sky “Light”
Share After a nice break this weekend full of mountain biking and hanging out with the family on Fathers Day I received and interesting video from Anika Lehde on some simple but quite amazing water bottle sky lights. The automatic on / off interior solar lamp was invented in Brasil by Mr Alfredo Moser, a mecanics worker in a humble environment. In 2002, during a long electrical shortage, at Uberaba, São Paulo, Brasil, Mr Alfredo Moser discovered... Read More
KinetiCompost; Fosters Quick and Stylish Sustainability
Share After reading an article on how a small Japanese village recycles everything under the kitchen sink to reach 2020 zero waste goals I started to look around unique ways people can start reducing their waist in cleaner way. Smells, aesthetic appeal, and time it takes to create your own compost bin can be deterring for many people including myself. However I cam across this KinetiCompost at Quirky a company that helps take creative ideas to market. The... Read More
Uncertainty Avoidance to Avoidance Accommodation
ShareOn of the first frameworks developed for understanding innovation and technology and its relation to the economy has been the linear model of innovation. The model proposes that innovation starts with basic research, then adds applied research and development, ending with production and diffusions: Basic research Applied research Development Production and Diffusion The model has been very influential. Academic organizations, economist,... Read More
The Crunchies "Best Technoloy Innovation/Achievement"
Share I haven’t been much of a fan of anything Microsoft has put out in the past couple of years but interestingly enough Microsoft’s Live Mesh which won best technology innovation/achievement at the Crunchies. Live Mesh went up against Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, Google Chrome, Swype and Yahoo BOSS. “With Live Mesh, you can synchronize files with all of your devices, so you always have the latest versions handy. Access your files... Read More
