Archive for the ‘innovation’ Category
American Splendor
Thursday, July 15th, 2010Want to help with the oil spill? There’s an app for that.
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
The Mobile Gulf Observatory (MoGO) app turns you and your iPhone into a ‘citizen scientist’ helping track the environmental impact of the BP oil spill, and enable wildlife experts to find and rescue stranded birds, sea turtles and dolphins.
Download the free app from iTunes
via WBUR
Eye Art
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
We saw the work of graffiti artist and activist Tony Quan aka Tempt One at PopTech. Presented by one of the creators of EyeWriter from the team at FAT (Free Art and Technology). Tony has ALS and is paralyzed except for his eyes. Check out his work and the very cool, open source, gorilla approach to technology, art, expression and accessibility at FAT.
145-foot-tall inflatable meeting hall
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
This is crazy-cool. In the works is this huge inflatable meeting hall which would rise from the courtyard of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. The space would host films and performances while providing a meeting space for those concerned with cultural issues.
We feel.
Friday, December 4th, 2009
We have a huge soft spot for We Feel Fine. It has been collecting and aggregating emotions since 2005 which equals about 12 million feelings. The results are hilarious, heartrending and poignant. It’s as if a big tender net is cast into the air and we get to see what it catches. The We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion is a best of compilation by the site’s creators Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.
Patients like me.
Monday, November 16th, 2009We just caught our friend Jamie Heywood on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning. He was talking about Patients Like Me the online community he and his brothers created for people with ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, AIDS or depression, to name a few. It is a “platform for collecting and sharing real world, outcome-based patient data.” Patients share and track their experiences and symptoms. The site aggregates the information. The more people share, the more information will be generated. Useful for patients, doctors and researchers alike. Listen
Poptech 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009
It will likely take months for us to fully process last week’s PopTech 2009: America Reimagined conference. Fed by the notion of America itself as a great big idea, this year’s lot of speakers and participants commenced to hammering away at America’s, and the world’s massive challenges. Pictured here, just a small slice of a single day at the conference are, Alec Ross / senior adviser on innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Logan Richardson / Saxophonist, George Church / geneticist and initiator of the Human Genome and Personal Genome Projects and Marije Vogelzang / designer of eating.
PopTech ‘09
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Hey look, we designed this year’s conference identity for the PopTech conference. This’ll be our fourth year attending and it is still hard to describe how mind-expanding the experience is. We always leave invigorated, challenged, connected and with our heads swirling. We are continually amazed how it informs our work and ever grateful to the staff at PopTech who are amazing, generous, fierce and so much fun to work with.
This year’s theme is America Reimagined and among the many speakers are Katy Payne, an authority on the language of elephants, Nicholas Feltron, designer and personal informatician, and food activist Michael Pollan.
There may still be some tickets – you really should go!
John Maeda.
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Check out the article by my brother, the very talented David Scharfenberg wrote about John Maeda, president of RISD, for the Providence Phoenix. The photo is from the RISD blog. We met Mr. Maeda at PopTech. He is one of those listeners that make you hope to hell what you’re saying is smart. Because he is really listening.
