January 2010
8 posts
How to hack reality →
"Sugru" is kind of a plasticine made to hack real life products. Are you buying new stuff all the time just because of small product design issues? You wish to connect pointless stuff together in order to form useful gadgets? You want to personalize a products look and feel? Just hack reality. It also seems to be a great tool for prototyping.
What does "Innovation" mean to you? →
Everyone wants to be innovative. So "Innovation" is one of those words everyone is using all the time. But does everyone mean the same by saying "I want innovation"? A couple of years ago I had a situation where someone asked me for a brief description about the innovation that comes with my concept. I told him but he kept asking "So where is the innovation now?". I guess...
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When you fall in love with your product
masscustomization:
I asked her what she thinks the future of mass customization is, and she warned not to be too much in love with the idea of mass customization itself, but rather to think about what the customer wants. She gives the example of their line of CNN headline shirts - the idea of CNN headlines on t-shirts wouldn’t be possible without mass customization, yet its taking it a step...
Why we should unlearn the school approach →
From my experience school was kind of a bureaucratic monster created as a gate keeper for the ways everyone wanted to go. At the end I've learned that school is for the certificate and not for mastering reality. Reality is much more diverse than every multiple choice test can ever be. In addition, there's so much passivity in school. I've had hard times learning how to get active again...
The difference between concepts and ideas
Just stumbled upon an interesting idea posted by maren kate. The diamond at this idea is - at least for me - based on the connection between offline events and online media content. I guess every marketing department would die to have real time location based data about where their ads are going. In fact, most marketing experts already have data about where their customers live and work. Maybe the...
Black tea with tomatoes?
via foodpairing.be
I know that some people drink black tea with milk, but with tomatoes? That’s one option recommended by foodpairing.be, a new approach to get information about possible food combinations. I personally like the idea although it’s not well implemented yet.
Especially food is - in my mind - a very underestimated sector. There are many sites providing recipes and...
The bottle trick
via fastcompany.com I’m sometimes a bit ashamed about the irrational power of human beings. The bottled water problem is not new and, yes, I also transport my drinks from the supermarket to my home in bottles. I think it’s time for a behavior change and the time for this is good. I know at least a few people who mix all their drinks out of juice concentrate. The advantage: No heavy...
Europeans and economic experiments →
Well, Europeans are not into experiments, that's for sure. I guess on the scale of things there are about twice as much risk takers in the United States. But what should we expect. There's no tradition of risking anything in Europe. It's more like a tradition of safety, which is not bad at all but sometimes has so many disadvantages.