The Innovation Diaries

Would your approach to fixing a problem work better if you were thinking smaller and not bigger?
When people talk about ideation you often hear well worn phrases being bandied about – with ‘a blue skies approach’ and ‘thinking outside of the box’ coming up all to regularly. But what if your approach wasn’t to think […]

“Eternal Poppety-Pop” is a keyring sized game that allows users to pop plastic bubbles, which are replenished immediately and endlessly. Since its release at the end of last year, two million of the toys have been sold in a country in which bubble wrap popping is regarded not merely as a diversion from boredom but […]

The Washington Post has picked out a few obsolete technologies that have passed away in our lifetime - amongst them, “Getting Lost”(thanks to GPS gadgets), “Truly ‘Blind’ Dates” (good old Google and Facebook image searching) and the iconic Mixtape. But hold on, what’s this? The humble C90 has been given a facelift for those star-crossed […]

I stumbled across a couple of novel marriages of grafitti and technology over at WebUrbanist. They’ve collected together what happens when geek meets street, and artists use new methods to enable them to worker harder/better/faster/stronger.
Graffiti and Hip Hop are quite strongly connected (it is one of Hip Hop’s 4 elements) and disruptive innovation in […]

Tyler Brûlé’s “hipper than thou” culture bible Monocle recently featured an interview with Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, where they discussed innovation and how the company has adapted over the last 10 years. It’s a great piece of stimulus on how a company can become successful again by focusing on their key values - and […]

Now, everyone knows that the only reason people ever smoked was to attract members of the opposite sex. And with the smoking ban has now well and truly with us, there’s not only a hole left in people’s hearts, but in their pockets as well.
London-based on Tank Form working from (where else) Malborough St […]