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Posts by: Chris Kalaboukis
The Swap-O-Matic is a vending machine art project based in Brooklyn where users can exchange goods without exchanging money. Lina Fenequito of Good World Media is the main designer and creator behind The Swap-O-Matic, which currently is a one-up retro-styled machine that travels between various New York City stores.
Reason is reporting that Amazon, Facebook, Google and Twitter are considering a coordinated blackout of their services in protest of the SOPA legislation, which would curtail Internet freedoms. It is not clear how long the blackout would last.
Such a move would affect countless Internet users. Just think about it – even [...]
Honda Motor Co’s Asimo humanoid robot opens the top of a bottle to pour the drink into a cup during a news conference at the 42nd Tokyo Motor Show in Tokyo November 30, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN – Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)
via Tokyo Motor Show Photos | Tokyo Motor Show Pictures – [...]
If there was a high point for Space Age excitement about all things futuristic and shiny, it might well have been the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, at which we would be promised such great things as the Bubbleator Time Machine. Women dressed in skimpy outer space outfits posed in the Girls [...]
Following up on my post yesterday on the processing of internal ideas, like organic food, which has has as little processing as possible, organic ideas, coming directly from the inventors, with as little added flavoring as possible, usually make the best ideas. Now it is possible that the initial idea was missing a business [...]
While this particular example is about how an idea needs to get “processed” before it goes to an innovation council, the concept of iteration-itis has killed many a good startup as well. In fact, I can point directly at my last startup, where we had such a severe case of iteration-itis that we never truly launched anything to [...]
Disagree, but an interesting take. Ideas need to be protected for the inventor as much as copyright works should be protected for writers and musicians.
Patents have been popping up in the news quite a bit over the last few weeks. As the economy continues to stumble along, companies and investors are working even [...]
The truth is that the best way to deal with a recession is to innovate your way out of it. You could just cut back on everything but you will also cut back on the very things that can help you to survive and grow. You could just continue to spend as if there [...]
I was at a job interview a while back and the interviewer noticed that I had “futurist” on my social network profile and asked me the question above. So I responded with “there are different kinds of futurists?” The question took me aback because I figured that everyone pretty much knew what a futurist [...]
A very cool idea: interested to see how things work from an IP perspective:
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How do you turn an idea into something more than just a fleeting thought? A company called AHHHA is leveraging ‘social ideation’ to take ideas from passing notions to actual businesses.
“If Facebook is social networking and [...]
