Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category

Apple’s new iPhone 4

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Design video below. Beautiful!

Ready for some “Facetime”? Apple iPhone 4

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

The new iPhone is coming, here is one of its benefits.

Big Bold and Beautiful from Philips

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Last year Philips took the Cannes Film Grand Prix for its “Carousel” short-movie below.

 

Now they’ve followed up this mini-film idea with a series of five mini-films…. “Parallel Lines” by Philips and Ridley Scott  Associates.

Here’s the official teaser:

 

And the trailer ….

 

And the films.  Bold stuff.

 

And the sixth film?

Yours!

“Schools Kill Creativity”

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Another gift from TED Talks and Ken Robinson.

“Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity”.

This is not only thought provoking but extremely funny.

Enjoy, I think you will.

What adults can learn from kids

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

This is one very smart kid, talking on TED talks.

If you want to know more about her, check out her own website:www.adorasvitak.com/

she’s also on Wiki.

 

You can find TED talks at www.TED.com “Ideas worth spreading”.

The YikeBike is Coming!

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Designed and built in new Zealand this cute this mover is a both an engineer’s and designer’s dream.

The world’s smallest and lightest electric bike at under 10kg.

Neat!

 

Can find out more at www.yikebike.com

The People of the Internet

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Are you one of the “people of the internet”?

The Beeb might not take paid advertising, but they do promote themselves.  Good on ‘em!

A Little BIG Thing

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

In a week’s time, Tom Peters, coauthor of “The Pursuit of Excellence” and urber-guru of Management Consulting is releasing a new book … The Little BIG Things.  In it is outlines 163 ways to pursue excellence.

Here’s one of them.

 

Tom is great about making the complex simple, and the simple vital.  Guess that is what a little BIG thing is.

Iain

ps: If you would like to know what the 163 little BIG things are before getting the book, contents are listed here: http://www.tompeters.com/docs/TOC_LBT_5P.pdf

The Next Internet Revolution – Mobile

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

A good read and summary film from Simon Silvester of WPP’s Y&R company.  The film is in two parts.  The book is highly readable and entertaining too.

 

Or read the book at:

http://pubs.yr.com/mobilemania .

Enjoy

Iain

SixthSense Technology … Ok, Just Watch It!

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Here are a couple of videos which together make a TED Talk – this one by Pranav Mistry of MIT on SixthSense Technology.

Am for a rare moment a bit lost for words.

Its Open Source and will be made available to developers in a  few months.

Staggering!