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Showing posts with label innovations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label innovations. Show all posts

Thursday, September 1, 2011

7 Tech Innovations for the Future

Tom Uglow, a Director at Google's Creative Lab in London, told the NEXT conference in Denmark to look for the following 7 tech innovations for the future (as reported by TNW):


1) Eye-tracking to target ads: A device would track your eye movements on the screen as you used the Web, and serve up ads relevant to exactly what you were reading at that moment.
2) Ads as apps: HTML5-powered banners ads that are actually Web apps in themselves, performing functions that help a user in some way relevant to the advertiser.
3) Ad network loyalty programs: Ads will become even more personal and exclusive.
4) User-led ‘advertainment’: Online ads could become stories that would unfold at the users’ pace.
5) User-focused microdonations systems: Charitable donations for small amounts can become substantial if the barrier to donation is reduced by making it easy to do, increasing the number of people who donate.
6) Personal data streams about your body: Gadgets such as your mobile phone will provide you with automated information – your pulse, temperature, location, blood sugar, and the like, pushed to you as you need it.
7) Geolocation and time-based arts: The arts sector will begin using technology in new ways to enable mobile participation and new forms of drama. For example, theatres could use near field communication and GPS to enhance their performances and influence the way they’re presented to individual audience members.


I agree with all of them (some more than others), but I would just add for #7 that sports has significant potential with technology to be more interactive with the fan during the game.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

TED Talks | Tim Brown, IDEO CEO on Creativity, Play, Design Thinking and Thinking Big



From TED:

Tim Brown is the CEO of innovation and design firm IDEO, taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface. Having taken over from founder David E. Kelley, Tim Brown carries forward the firm's mission of fusing design, business and social studies to come up with deeply researched, deeply understood designs and ideas -- they call it "design thinking."

IDEO is the kind of firm that companies turn to when they want a top-down rethink of a business or product -- from fast food conglomerates to high-tech startups, hospitals to universities.

IDEO has designed and prototyped everything from a life-saving portable defibrillator to the defining details at the groundbreaking Prada shop in Manhattan to corporate processes. And check out the Global Chain Reaction for a sample of how seriously this firm takes play.



TED TALK (2009) By Tim Brown on Design Thinking and Thinking Big

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

World's Tallest Building Burj Khalifa Opens in Dubai with Fireworks, Water and Light Show



Burj Khalifa (aka "Burj Dubai"), world's tallest building ever opened on Monday to fireworks, water and light show. The 828m skyscraper was designed in Chicago by SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)

See above for the full opening ceremony and see below for a view from the top of the spire a few days earlier.

Let's hope the Burj will inspire future creative skyscraper design and skyline innovations around the world.