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Volunteers Needed for Open Innovation Eclipse Project

Feb-24-17 By IdeaConnection
Scientists have their fingers crossed that open innovation will give them the most complete record ever of a solar eclipse.

The Eclipse Megamovie Project is looking to create a 90-minute megamovie of the natural phenomena by combining footage from more than 1,000 cameras in the path of the eclipse.

Open Innovation Space Quest

Feb-17-17 By IdeaConnection
You are probably never going to set foot in space, but that doesn't mean you cannot explore worlds beyond our own. And you can do so with NASA's latest open innovation project - Backyard Worlds: Planet 9.

This fascinating endeavor is calling on citizens around the world to help scientists search the outer fringes of our Solar System to identify brown dwarfs, low-mass stars and perhaps even the hypothesized ninth planet.

Lufthansa’s Inflight Open Innovation Platform

Feb-10-17 By IdeaConnection
The German airline has come up with a neat way of doing open innovation and that is with its FlyingLab, which involves passengers testing new products and services while they are flying.

During New York Fashion Week, which takes place this week, some of the flights en route to the Big Apple from Frankfurt have hosted fashion shows and talks and let passengers test out innovative wearable technologies.

Combating Looting from Space

Feb-03-17 By IdeaConnection
On any given day thousands of looted archeological artifacts are offered for sale on the black market, ancient treasures stolen from historical sites. To try to cut off supply, archeologists exert pressure on governments to do more to help in the battle against smugglers.

Now they have come up with a fresh approach - open innovation and the crowd.