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Boarding a plane is a completely miserable, time-consuming experience. How often are you left waiting for that oversized man jam his oversized luggage into the undersized overhead compartment? Ridiculous! That's why every airline needs to try this new boarding method. It cuts the time in half.
Every Airline Should Board Airplane Passengers Like This (It Cuts Boarding Time in HALF)
The guys at The Social Practice put together a very nice deck that recaps the trends spotted at this year’s Cyber Lions in Cannes. From Social TV to the Power of Real Time, this is very good reference document. But watch out, please don’t regard it as a source of inspiration, but rather as a good list of stuff you should stay away from if you really want to be innovative over the next 12 months!
12 trends from Cannes 2011 | Adverblog
Brainstorming 2.0: Making Ideas That Really Happen :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
One of the most common questions we hear at 99% is: “How do I get more out of my brainstorming sessions?” While brainstorming sessions have become perhaps the most iconic act of creativity, we still struggle with how to give them real utility.
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo is best-known for the infamous Stanford Prison Study , one of modern psychology’s most unsettling experiments on human nature.
The Heroic Imagination Project | Brain Pickings
Looking to Realize Dreams in India, With New Business Models | Co.Design
Designers, especially humanitarian designers, usually try to meet people's needs. In India, they are going to try and realize people's dreams. What does that mean?
Joshua Davis Creates the Face of Watson, IBM's Jeopardy Supercomputer | Co.Design
If you watched "Jeopardy!"This Is The Video Game Reinvention Of Toys, Or So The People Behind Call of Duty Hope
The next big thing in action figures is "interaction figures." That's the pitch we heard today during a showcase event in New York City for a revival of the video game hero Spyro the Dragon as part of a band of toys that interact with video games. Spyro will be one of at least 30 toys — colorful, small statues, really — that each contain a microchip that stores the progress players make with those characters in a related video game. A new Spyro toy will be sold as a level one character, but playing Spyro in this fall's Wii game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure will start leveling him up, adding powers as he rises from rank 1 to 10. It helps to see this in action.
A career-limiting move can be something as overt as challenging the boss. Or, it can be as subtle as driving the wrong make of car, not belonging to the right country club or being a little too indiscrete on Facebook. In one organization I’ve worked with, conventional wisdom was that facial hair on men and slacks on women constituted career-limiting moves. Now, a study finds that being openly creative might well be a career-limiting move, too. A report about to be published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ( preview here ) by Jennifer Mueller , Jack Goncalo , and Dishan Kamdar found that open expression of creative ideas was negatively correlated with perceptions of leadership potential. It wasn’t that creativity was frowned upon per se —creative people scored just as well on measures of competence and likeability.
Are the People in Your Organization Too Smart to be Creative? - Chunka Mui - Devil's Advocate - Forbes
Curating the Best of the Web: Video - NYTimes.com
The Internet is awash in content — and a whole lot of it is junk, spam or inane status updates. How do you begin to navigate through the zillions of news articles, Web sites, tweets and other stuff online to find content that matters to you?31 JANUARY, 2011 by Maria Popova We’re big fans of creative technology rock star Aaron Koblin , whose Sheep Market , Bicycle Built for 2,000 and Johnny Cash projects we’ve featured previously. In this excellent interview , the fine folks of Emergence Collective track Aaron down at Sundance, where he’s working on Google’s Life in a Day crowdsourced film project, and ask him some compelling questions about computational aesthetics, the digital renaissance, and the future of creative technology:
Aaron Koblin on the Digital Renaissance | Brain Pickings
PSFK’s latest ’Future Of’ report presents key trends in the mobile tagging space, so as to inspire marketers and their creative agencies about their future use of technologies that includ
PSFK presents Future Of Mobile Tagging Report
As Pandora rumbles toward a possible IPO, its founder and Chief Strategy Officer Tim Westergren talks to Fast Company about the secret ingredient in its future formula (hint: it's not an algorithm).