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Turning Old Phone Booths Into Digital Information Hubs
Just because you don’t need them to make phone calls anymore doesn’t mean that phone booths are totally useless--especially if you add a screen and some Wi-Fi.
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How a Tony-Nominated Broadway Director Got His Film Debut Pitch Perfect
Jason Moore directed the Tony Award-winning "Avenue Q," and after years of practicing with TV shows, he’s made his way to the big screen with "Pitch Perfect"—a comedy that required all his skills.
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Poised For A Comeback? Danish Architects Reinvent The Geodesic Dome
Two young Copenhagen designers amend Bucky’s original designs for his iconic tessellated structures.
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An IED-Eating Robot Finds A New Line Of Work
As a remote-controlled firefighter, the Thermite pumps 500 gallons of water per minute while keeping humans out of harm’s way.
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A Concept Airline Eases The Pain Of Traveling With Toddlers
Could a family-friendly airline make sense in today’s no-frills air-travel industry? A California design studio thinks so.
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Infographic: How Much Money Will Solar Panels Save You?
Cambridge’s new solar tool shows residents and businesses how much sunshine their rooftop gets--and how harnessing it will affect their bottom line.
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Can Your Door Be Too Open? No.
If you're going to succeed, your team has to be ready to "run through a brick wall for you," says Kelly Project Solutions founder Robert Kelly. And that can only happen if you establish relationships....
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Finally, A More Exciting Design For Wind Power
Enough of the fields of turbines! The Windstrument offers a different vision of what wind power can be in urban areas.
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Psychological Fatigue Is The Silent Productivity Killer--But Extreme Teamwork...
Imagine this scenario: your four-year-old daughter wakes up vomiting at 2:00 a.m. She's flushed and sweating. You pull out a thermometer: 103 degrees. Off to the emergency room you dash, where the...
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The Pinterest Pivot
Before Pinterest became social media’s fastest growing website, and landed on the cover of Fast Company, CEO Ben Silbermann set out to transform every cell phone into a clothing retail outlet with an...
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This Week In Bots: Digging For Moon Water, Droids Going Mobile, And Swarming...
Bot Vid: NASA's Exoskeleton Exoskeleton innovation is happening around the world for a couple of reasons--the first being military-related use. But a far gentler and more humane exoskeleton project has...
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Party Pics And Sage Words From Our 2012 Innovation By Design Awards
Last night, we threw an epic party celebrating all things design of 2012. Here’s a late-entry ticket.
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How To Build An Electric Bike That People Will Actually Want To Ride
The story of how Adam Vollmer left Ideo to make an electric bike Americans could love.
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Cornell Releases First Images of New York's Future Tech Campus
This 2.1-million-square-foot development aims to make New York’s modest Silicon Alley a competitor with its West Coast big brother.
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The Data-Viz Story Behind Joy Division's Legendary Album Cover
In 1979, designer Peter Saville created an iconic album cover from an unlikely source: the first pulsar reading.
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Bravo's "LOLwork" Is A Glimpse At The Internet's Resident Cat-Meme Creators
If you weren't totally satisfied (or horrified) by the promos for the Randi Zuckerberg-produced "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley," here comes an equally strange and slightly hairier show about the creators...
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Microsoft Reveals Surprisingly Expensive Surface Pricing
As October 26 approaches, more details about the Microsoft Surface are trickling out of Redmond, along with an early review of the firm's long-awaited Windows 8 OS from Walter Mossberg. The latest...
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In 1973, Managers Could Work 23 Minutes Without Distraction. And Today?
A study of business managers reports the following findings: · Managers scarcely have time to start on a new task or to sit down before they are interrupted. · Only 12 times in the study did the...
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3 Reasons "Balance" Has Become A Dirty Word At Work
Recently, a skeptical senior leader asked me to explain the business case for why organizations need to take a more coordinated, strategic approach to work flexibility. I began to list all of the...
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