The Innovation Diaries

People don’t set out to make bad products. It’s a truism, but that doesn’t make it any less impactful. Over at Wired they have an inteview with Ted Castranova, a social scientist at Indiana University, on the pitfalls he encountered whilst trying to create a video game based on the works of Shakespeare (although as […]

What do with an outmoded technology? Turn it into entertainment. A plethora of services using photo booths have sprung up here and in the US. In the UK, Boothnation offers customised booths for use at events (via DailyCandy), and what you see above was spotted by Jezebel at a recent wedding show.

The March 4th death of Dungeon and Dragons co-inventor Gary Gygax divided the world into two groups: those who barely noticed, and those who found themselves awash in sentimentality.
I, personally, was teleported to late night Dorito-and-Coke-fueled battles in friend’s basements, rolling oddly shaped dice while hunching over the cryptic tomes upon which we burned […]