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viralMeme sends in a piece from OLPC News featuring a video interview with Pixel Qi’s Mary Lou Jepson. The interview goes over some of the improvements in the company’s extremely power-eficient screen technology that will show up in the next generations of the OLPC. The article links a video side-by-side comparison among Pixel Qi, Kindle, and Toshiba R600 displays in sunlight and in shade; Pixel Qi is arguably more readable… Continue reading
Who’s willing to bet that Jaguar’s innovative Limo-Green concept car will make it to production? Serious testing for the car, a series hybrid XJ equipped with a range extender engine, will begin next year yet but it’s already speculated to be slated for production.
Anthony Harper, head
While on the phone with T-Mobile, Jim Schwab got impatient. Then he got on Twitter, tapping out periodic updates for the world to read about how many minutes he had been on hold before being disconnected.
Soon after, the mobile phone giant sought him out to apologize about the inconvenience, brought to the company’s attention by Schwab’s twittering.
“It at least showed me they were listening,” said Schwab, vice president of sales… Continue reading
The myth and the truth behind great creativity and mental illness, and what research reveals about Virginia Woolf, Edvard Munch and others.
In the official Hollywood template, you pretty much can’t be a genius without also being nuts. Classic examples: Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh in “Lust for Life,” or more recently “The Hours,” with Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf who in real life probably suffered from manic depression.
Are highly… Continue reading
RICHMOND - Melissa Newby is a hunter who’s motivated by the thrill of the chase—even if the quarry is nothing more elusive than a box of Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheats.
Her weapons are coupons, rebate forms and her own money-saving savvy.
Newby, a stay-at-home mom, has a knack for unearthing bargains. When she and her family—husband Scott, son Dylan, 5, and daughter Shanna, 2—moved from Wisconsin to Midlothian about a year ago, she… Continue reading
Six fashion designers from different parts of the world were asked to create a series of couture car covers exclusively for Intersection Magazine.
This post showcases their final car cover designs. Enjoy!
The crowd sourcing of creative is erupting in popularity and with this eruption several questions are bubbling up as well. The one I keep getting asked is, “Could creativity ever become a commodity?”
Probably the most pertinent definition of commodity in Webster’s is, “a good or service whose wide availability typically leads to smaller profit margins and diminishes the importance of factors other than price.” Well, by that definition I
How are imagination and the global economy connected? Well, if you’re a Hollywood producer, you’d know that the highest grossing films of all time tend to fall in the fantasy/imagination/sci-fi genre. Think, Harry Potter, Spiderman, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. The studios behind these blockbuster franchises know that they’re virtually certain to get a good return on their investment both in the States and overseas.
But beyond the box… Continue reading
Brandeis International Business School (IBS) will be featured along with other leading business schools at the upcoming Fulbright MBA Fair to be held in Tel Aviv September 11-12, 2008. The fair will provide helpful information to prospective students on how to gain acceptance to leading MBA schools in the United States. Other institutions attending include Harvard Business School, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Stanford University Graduate School of… Continue reading
Thirty-two Babson College MBA students in Babson’s Product Design and Development (PDD) course will showcase their seven new product concepts at this year’s Babson Design Fair.
The MBA students formed seven teams in Assistant Professor Sebastian Fixson’s course to develop their product designs during the single-semester PDD course.
Neighboring Olin College of Engineering provided prototyping support and engineering advice. Rhode Island School of Design adjunct professor Matt Kressy was consulted on industrial… Continue reading
