Archive for December, 2007

This guy is my hero…

… Not because his car is particularly good looking, because it definitely got beat with the ugly stick a few times, but because he adapted an old (1992!) car to enable him to hypermile by changing the body style of the car– No engine mods necessary. This is what Amory Lovins has been campaigning [...]

Keep On Rocking in the Free World, [kid who buys my drums].

For the past several days, I’ve been trying to declutter my parents house of old stuff that’s been sitting around forever. Admittedly, a lot of the stuff is mine that they didn’t know they were allowed to throw out because I was away at college, working in KC or Bangalore, or at school in [...]

links for 2007-12-27

TIP: The Theories
(tags: learning education theory psychology theories)

links for 2007-12-26

Top 7 Design Trends : Industrial Market Trends
(tags: design trends business Culture theory media)

links for 2007-12-25

Next: Innovation Tools & Trends Social Networking – BusinessWeek
(tags: socialnetworks innovation)

A Rural Health Clinic in a Box
(tags: healthcare india rural)

Radar: Radar Blog – Radar Tag: You’re It!
real world games using web software for facilitation
(tags: fun games internet Mobile)

fring – Make free mobile calls, IM with Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk™, SIP & Twitter, AIM® [...]

A Russian Mowgli: Nature or Nurture?

When I showed my brother this, we both immediately (but separately) thought there were some pretty interesting learnings to be had from this kid’s gradual re-introduction into society. If only there were a way to do it without making it too Truman Show-ey or Big Brother-ish.

Simple yet ingenious packaging

When I was growing up, I used to travel back to India on occasion to see the large percentage of my family that still resides there. I distinctly remember going to my uncles house and having to walk a short distance outdoors to get to the shower. (Yeah, I guess that’s kinda like [...]

10 Types of Gorillas

Can I just say, that sometimes, I feel like I’m in Pee Wee’s playhouse when I’m reading some random blog entry, design observer, or the latest McK Quarterly and I see the word “innovation“. All the fun creatures and puppets in the playhouse start screaming and yelling around me and I become anxious and [...]

links for 2007-12-20

business technology trends – Eight business technology trends to watch – Information Technology – Applications – The McKinsey Quarterly
(tags: trend McKinsey innovation technology business media)

The BiasharaPhone: a hybrid mobile phone and POS terminal
(tags: Africa design development phone)

links for 2007-12-18

The Visual Display of Vampire Information : TreeHugger
(tags: visual display)

links for 2007-12-16

Exonerated, Freed, and What Happened Then – The New York Times
(tags: multimedia nytimes interactive flash journalism)

Open Flash Chart – Home
(tags: flash chart library opensource graph)

links for 2007-12-15

A textbook example | Free exchange | Economist.com
(tags: text learning books)

links for 2007-12-14

Technology Review: Smart Phone Suggests Things to Do
(tags: research mobile phone PARC)

Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design
(tags: usability eyetracking webdesign design)

links for 2007-12-13

Piramal Prize
(tags: healthcare prize innovation)

links for 2007-12-12

The Customer Connection: The Global ­­­Innovation 1000
(tags: innovation customer consulting)



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