Encouraging your employees' creativity can not only create an engaging work environment, but create new business. Seven experts share their tips on getting employees to share their ideas. The origin of the humble Post-It Note is perhaps the best-known story about a million-dollar innovation that sprang from an unexpected place within a company
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Steve Jobs is out, and Tim Cook is in. It's too early to tell what the future holds, but here's a look at upcoming Apple product launches. With Steve Jobs exiting as Apple CEO, one has to wonder: What does this mean for the tech giant’s near-term product launches?
Read More »How A Semi-Conductor Plant Rebooted After The Japanese Earthquake And Saved Car Manufacturers Everywhere
Almost every car company in the world relies on Renesas computer chips for its electronics. The only factory in the world where Renesas chips are made is in Naka, Japan. Devastated by the March earthquake, the factory had to get quickly back into chips.
Read More »Apple Roundup: Totally New Macs, Cheap iPhone, iPhone 5 Parts And Dates, LTE iPhones Tested, Retina iPads In-Bound
August is traditionally a slow news month for tech, but with its revised iPhone launch schedule Apple's still turning up plenty of rumors--along with fascinating hints at future Macs. Entirely New Product Line Japanese Mac site Macotakara is predicting Apple's got something surprising up its sleeve for the end of 2011: A completely new Mac product.
Read More »An Antarctica Floe Chart Worthy Of Your Icy Stares
Using new satellite data, scientists have plotted exactly how the ice moves around the South Pole, shining new light on exactly how much water is going to flood into the ocean as the ice melts. Antarctica is not just a solid block of ice. It's a living, moving area, where floes slide against each other
Read More »What Were They Thinking? The Cautionary Tale Of Kinoki’s Snake-Oil Ad Tactics
How could anyone forget these (although you probably wish you could...)? In the late 2000s, Kinoki bombarded us with relentless television ads and Internet pitches for adhesive foot pads it claimed would remove harmful toxins from your body overnight.
Read More »Ace Hotel’s Communal Workspace Shows A Winning Hand
Creatives gravitate to a showy New York hotel lobby to work hard and look good doing so.
Read More »Road Work Can Spread Invasive Species
Invasive species get a bad rap--but we humans are usually to blame for their spread. Take Japanese Stiltgrass, an invasive that arrived from Asia nearly 100 years ago as a packing material for porcelain. When it creeps into forests, it forms dense carpets that can choke out native tree seedlings
Read More »Bluefinger: The Race To Freeze Or Breed Bluefin Tuna Before Extinction
Bluefin--the most prized of all tunas--are quickly going extinct. The tsunami may have set back plans to keep toro refrigerated for future sushi lovers, but fish farmers are close to a breakthrough.
Read More »This Week In Bots: Learning Bots, Baking Bots, Gesture-Reading Bots
Robots are ever closer to being clever enough, autonomous enough, and useful enough to actually become part of daily life. Here are the latest robo-developments
Read More »The Robotic Nurse That Can Pick You Up
Lifting a person is a lot of work. But not if you're a friendly Japanese robot designed to help care for the elderly.
Read More »250 Cameras, A Day Of Soldering, Zero CGI: Party’s Mind-Bending, Strobe-Animated Music Video
The creative collective made a video for the Japanese band Androp using 250 Canon still cameras. Their flashes were controlled via a potent DIY cocktail of arduino, openFrameworks, and Flash. Individually, the founders of Tokyo- and New York-based Party have created some of the most interesting music-driven videos of the last few years
Read More »Japan Utilities Push to Extend Life of Nuclear Plants
By Kaori Kaneko and Osamu Tsukimori TOKYO (Reuters) - Two Japanese utilities moved on Friday to extend the life of reactors at a pair of central coastal nuclear plants, fuelling already fierce debate over energy policy in the wake of the Fukushima radiation crisis. [More]
Read More »Rise Of The Machines: How Rube Goldberg Inspired A Decade Of Creative Copycats
Look! Another RGM. What is it about Goldberg’s contraptions that’s made them such an enduring commercial form and reliable source of web traffic? In support of its new Android tablets, Sony just launched a series of web films based on a Rube Goldberg Machine
Read More »Rise Of The Machines: How Rube Goldberg Inspired A Decade Of Creative Copycats
Look! Another RGM. What is it about Goldberg’s contraptions that’s made them such an enduring commercial form and reliable source of web traffic
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