Innovation, Inventions and Crowdsourcing
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Sometimes it’s easy to get caught within the bounds of where an accepted solution “should” come from. We need to look a the tools that we are given, and get creative not just with the solution, but with the tools themselves.
The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen. The story goes like this: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Creativity, Mesuring a Building, Niels Bohr
Sometimes someone comes up with something that makes everyone else think “Why didn’t I think of that ?”
Have you ever outpaced cars and been honked at? Had a car almost wipe you out while making a turn? Do you ever ride your bike so fast that you wish that everyone else could know how close to the speed of light you were? Or sometimes are you riding your bike, cars honking impatiently behind you, wishing that they knew you were actually going more than 10 mph? Or maybe you just want to show off to your buddies that you left in your dust!
Enter… the speed vest! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bike safety, cycling, sped vest, speedometer
Sometimes the ideas that initially sound the most absurd are the most brilliant ones. Suppose for a moment that someone told you that they were going design a camera for blind people. Well, a design team at Samsung has done just that.
My first thought was “Why?” … My second thought was “ok, but…How?” Read the rest of this entry »