Tuesday, January 29, 2008


mooi lelijk is niet lelijk! $20.000 voor een hoesje voor je IPhone. zouden die diamanten niet prikken in je zak? www.casemat.com
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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tourniquet stops blood flow fast! with one handed use!
for more life saving designs see

needel dispensor

Hân Pham won an award for this super cheap disposable needle container with a one time click onto standard drinks can!
Good stuff!

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

muji_coffee2

the masters of simplicity, apparently the watertank is wraped arround the coffe filter, allowing him to be perfectly cylindical! being beautifull from all sides! seen on www.yankodesign.com

easy unplug!

clever stuff seen on yanko "Raise Me Up is an electric powerstrip designed to make it easy for one handed operation. Normally you would have to brace a powerstrip with one hand while pull the plug with the other. Raise Me Up uses a simple lever switch to connect and disconnect plugs."

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

10 Best Books On Innovation To Get You Through The Recession.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on January 06 (BUSINESS WEEK)

We are at a tipping point in the economy where recession is probable so CEOs and top managers need to quickly shift their strategies for 2008. The CEOs who will be tossed out by their boards in a year or two will be the ones who simply focus on cutting costs over the next twelve months, allowing competitors to smack their companies hard with new products and services as the economy begins to grow strongly again in 09. Smart managers will focus on innovation during the tough months ahead and come out swinging by the end of the year. This is what Apple tends to do so look to Apple—not for its products—but for its strategy.

So here are 10 books on innovation that can guide you. It’s not an

exclusive list and I'll probably add a couple when people post comments to remind me of what I've left off.

Here goes for the 10 top books on innovation for 08:

1- The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking by Roger L. Martin.

2- Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw.

3- Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing Out of Sync? Seth Godin.

4- The Design of Future Things by Don Norman.

5-Innovation Nation by John Kao.

6- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.

7-The Future of Management by Gary Hammel.

8- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.

9- The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda.

10- Everyday Engineering: What Engineers See, by Andrew Burroughs.

Three new books coming out in 08 you need to read. Two are by Clay Christensen-- Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns; and Diagnosing the Disease, on the disruptive innovations taking place in both the education and healthcare industry. The other is by Roger Martin--Design Thinking, The Next Competitive Advantage.

Finally, if you are a manager contemplating laying people in the months ahead, or face layoffs yourself, please take a look at Robert Suttons' The No Ass.... Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't.

 

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decapitating street ads, for more of this gorish graffiti see link. (seen on 77)

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radiator mug, cools quicker probably, or intended not to burn your hands or to warm them up quicker on cold days with hot choclate ?

looks nice though:)

seen on 77. Available at Charles and Marie at $25.00 each.