Text messaging timeline
16 Feb 2012 12:50pm GMT Timeline How 160 characters changed the way we communicate 19 years ago … by Mark O’Neill It’s hard to believe but it has been just over 19 years since the first text message was sent from a computer to a mobile phone, and 18 years since the first phones were produced that allowed people to [...]
No Straight Lines: participatory reading
12 Feb 2012 10:21pm GMT We now have an open access participatory reading platform for No Straight Lines So here is an open invitation to swing by and have a look at No Straight Lines: It looks at how we can build better more sustainable societies, organisations and vibrant economies through innovative practice. It argues we need to design and create for the needs of humanity not industrial systems. You can read the entire book (open access) by clicking on READ THE BROWSER BOOK link on the No Straight Lines webpage.
How to design, fabricate and manufacture in a non-linear world
11 Feb 2012 12:10pm GMT A story about how we design and manufacture in a non-linear world, using agile software development, modular design, and rapid prototyping, the WikiSpeed car development team, developing a 100 MGP car for the Automotive X-Prize, has achieved an extraordinary compression of development time.
Three Ways to Bring Crowdsourcing into Mainstream Manufacturing
10 Feb 2012 3:25pm GMT Marc Halpern, Vice President of Gartner Manufacturing Industry Advisory Service, recently suggested that crowdsourcing could fix manufacturing by leaning on crowds for some aspects of product design and development. Beyond improving the exchange of ideas, crowdsourcing can also be useful for keeping companies “in touch with the tenor of the market,” says Halpern. Software Advice [...]
Olive - First cinema quality film shot on smartphone
29 Jan 2012 8:13pm GMT Interview with Co-Director Hooman Khalili, Executive Producer, Chris Kelly and Randi Zuckerberg who has a cameo performance in the film Olive taken with a Nokia N8 smartphone. @FANDORific talked to Hooman about the Oscars & Gena Rowlands. Olive is the very first full length feature film shot 100% on a cell phone. A 35 mm lens [...]