We’ve got a panel discussion! The Future of the Human/Machine Interface Tuesday, October 19th, 7-9 pm Hive at 55, 55 Broad Street, 13F, NY NY 10004 RSVP here. Panelists: Irwin Chen, Jill Nussbaum, Dan Paluska, Ian Spalter For many decades, we thought our future would … Read More →
Category Archives: Innovation and Ideas
Interviews with Smart People: Carla Thompson of Sharp Skirts
We’re kicking off a new feature here on the blog: Interviews with Smart People. We think it’s important to hear from all sorts of digital builders, thinkers, and dreamers – not just the same thought leaders who get asked to comment on everything. Interviews with Smart … Read More →
Innovation Gaps: Healthcare and the No-Fly List
Earlier this week, Sanofi-Aventis announced the impending arrival of the IBGStar, a nifty little device that plugs in to an iPhone and will allow diabetics to upload information from their blood glucose tests (a pinprick blood test that many diabetics must perform daily) to an … Read More →
LEDs are the New Sequins: Fashion, Crafting, and Wearable Technology
I’ve recently become fascinated by the evolving world of wearable technology (sometimes called soft circuits or just wearables). Clothing and accessories that incorporate electronics and advanced technologies are something that belonged to SciFi movies and TV programs I was obsessed with as a kid, so … Read More →
Agile Comedy, Momofuku Ko, and Making Amazing Things Happen
A recent New Yorker piece on the actor Steve Carell (subscription required) is actually a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the process of creating funny movies has shifted from sequential and scripted to highly improvisational and highly iterative. The old way — writing a movie, casting it, … Read More →
Digital Culture Now
We are digital people. We think in interfaces, systems, organized complexity, code, interaction, behavior. We dream, write, design, build, and solve – and we do it all with unprecedented efficiency and speed, using exciting tools that organize information in new ways. We inhabit a new … Read More →
Interviews with Smart People: Mozilla’s Brian Crowder
Developers are the unsung heroes of any Web project, but they’re really the heart and soul of Mozilla, the ambitious open source software project behind the ever-extensible Firefox browser. The Mozilla goal is both lofty and entirely sincere: to bring together thousands of dedicated volunteers … Read More →