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New technologies don't just recycle plastic into new plastic.

In Part 1 of my interview, Sunni Brown, business owner, creative director, speaker and co-author of one of Amazon’s Top 100 Business Books titled GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers , described graphic recording and the definition of Gamestorming. Below, Sunni discusses how to create innovative environments that produce amazing ideas

Designed to be as environmentally friendly as possible in its materials and its suction, Cambridge Consultant's Stem vacuum cleaner gets things clean using 43% less energy.

Some Michigan hospitals are making flu shots and other vaccines mandatory for employees. The flu shot or the pink slip? This year that will be the choice for some Michigan health care workers

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Samsung Reveals First AMOLED Tablet PC . Adding to its extensive, and lawsuit- mired Galaxy range Samsung just revealed the Galaxy Tab 7.7 at the IFA show

U.S. products almost certainly have a market across the pond.

The battle over "platforms" is as frenzied and vital as a presidential campaign. .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;"} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Illustration by I Love Dust It has become impossible to escape the smartphone wars

You used to be able to rent a single episode of some of your favorite TV shows via iTunes, and access them for a short period for your viewing pleasure.

The ski resort is betting it will get more bang for its buck from letting happy vacationers post the photos taken by its hillside photographers to Facebook--for free--than it will from selling them hardcopies. One of the hardest things to do for any company that wants to innovate is to willingly cannibalize a profitable line of business.

In this charming music video from Chipotle, Willie sings about going "back to the start" of American farming, before animals were pumped with antibiotics and kept in factories. A farmer, not content with his small family farm, starts to modernize. He turns his farm into a factory, pumping drugs into his pigs and pollutants into the water

When big companies--like Apple, Levi's, or the Gap--are caught treating their workers badly, they call Verite to help reform their organizations to prevent human rights abuses. Companies generally jump at the chance to point out any miniscule improvement in their environmental responsibility.

One of the first questions people ask about a new idea or venture is: Who is the competition? Who else is doing this? The worst rookie mistake in the world is to answer: No one

After a year of trying to get some skin in the daily online deals game, Yelp has decided to bench itself and refocus on its core services: online business reviews. It's probably a good call.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Launches Disaster Response Website .