Who is todays greatest innovation visionary?
In the 60s and 70s, the title ‘Oracle of the electric age’ was given to one man
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What role does ‘synthesis’ play in the design process?
It’s the missing link, halfway between discovering an original idea and using it to make something new: this video tries to explain how it works
What is this thing called Transmedia?
And what really happened at 8pm on the 17th of November 1978?
Haunted by the price of commercial success: using up the planet’s resources
Who you gonna call? These guys aren’t Ghostbusters, but they do believe they’ve discovered how to banish the spectre of industrial wastefulness
Birds do it: but can we fly without destroying the planet?
This fascinating Stanford University video explores what can be done to make aviation more sustainable
How relevant are ‘parenting issues’ to today’s innovation investment?
Checking out these news stories may help you decide
A tale of two planes
Different dreams, startlingly brought to reality, but still mostly futuristic dreams for most of us
Getting old, dying and other endangered ideas
A long-awaited documentary examines human mortality. The controversy is more about separating science from pseudo-science than about longevity
iij secrets on display?
Ok, we confess: we wish we could say that TED videos were made by us
What on earth is an Anthropreneur?
Need to attack poverty, environmental and language issues simultaneously? Then maybe you need one of these: as far as inspiring videos go, I haven’t seen anything much better than this
Underwhelmed by interfaces? Want to see what’s coming next?
Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report Interface’ guru tells us all what he’s been working on
Cameron on innovation and power
Watch the new UK premier explaining his ideas about innovation, before he got the job
New health data ideas suddenly go viral in government
Have political types trying to look cool unleashed a medical monster?
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
What do you get when you cross augmented reality with cosmetics?
Martyn Poliakoff: green chemist, big hair, YouTube god?
Even his much more famous brother is probably not as famous online
Rescuing crash victims just got a whole lot easier
New tools for tearing wreckage apart to get trapped occupants out of mangled vehicles
A wealth of innovation opportunities among the poorest on the planet
And you thought shopping was exhausting: necessity forces these ‘dollar or two a day’ people into an unimaginably intricate daily web of cash and credit
Sustainability and innovation: an oil company’s view
They tell us how they see the future in this video
Left Microsoft for Google: What’s startup catalyst Don Dodge doing now?
Here he is chairing a panel of top VCs on the ‘freemium’ business model [Video]
Is healthcare data just a game?
US government initiative spawns ‘Community Clash’
Dancing lessons from an elephant?
A giant corporation gives us a crash course on their novel approach to innovation [Video]
What can innovators learn about creativity from a fiction author?
Amy Tan writes about mother /daughter relationships and talks about the creative process in this video
Shapeshifting is no longer science fiction
Making things change to the shape you want : a video briefing on Shape Memory Materials
So you thought Venter’s ‘Creating life’ was the biggest Biotech story ever?
I’m not so sure he thinks so. In this video, you might just learn why
Did the recent “We’ve Just Created Life” coverage leave you feeling a bit ‘engineered’?
Sounds like you need to watch a Video of the Synthetic Biology Debate at the Edinburgh Science Festival
Why not update yourself on seven major robotics projects at once?
Here’s a video with a commentary by the man at the centre of the research
Balanced assessment of China’s Green Transport efforts?
It starts off pretty positive, even supportive, but it doesn’t back away from asking some hardball questions [Video]
Easy being green? Not if you make mobile handsets
It’s all the consumer’s fault (green mobile phone consciousness is only just warming up)
So how does a leading VC defend optimism in a crisis?
Innovators may need all the help they can get fighting off the bears and DFJ boss Steve Jurvetson delivers some interesting ammunition [Video]