The Innovation Diaries

Last week we journeyed out to limehouse town hall in hackney to witness the latest Dorkbot event.
Dorktbot London is the UK chapter of a global collective dedicated to people ‘doing strange things with electricity’. Now, this might sound pretty niche (and it is), but we fervently believe that the hackers are the future - look […]

I spent yesterday afternoon at Under The Influence in Borough Market, run by Iris, who I think are the real hot agency of the moment. They had hired 5 pubs and packed them with interesting people and interesting speakers talking about all sorts of subjects to do with the future. Loads of beer, good chat […]

Who says that progress needs to cost the earth? Park the thought of saving the planet for a moment and reflect on saving yourself the investment needed AFTER you have invested in a new innovation.
In an online New York Times article Eduardo Porter reported on the lure of the lights of Las Vegas. Mind […]

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.

We are very excited as this week we gained 12 new ?What If!ers, and we’ve started knocking down walls and baking cakes ready for their arrival! They come in the form of digital strategists and analysts from the agency Fathom Partners. The acquisition has happened and now the real partnership will begin as we join […]

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 […]

As you may or may not know, TopDog is a real-time learning program for CEO types, where leaders learn from leaders by visiting some of the world’s most innovative companies. Last week new Top Dog Director, Michael O’Keeffe, and I flew out to San Francisco to explore Silicon Valley for the next generation of […]

The Trouble With Steve
“Jobs himself judges the world in binary terms. Products, in his view, are “insanely great” or “shit.” One is facing death from cancer or “cured.” Subordinates are geniuses or “bozos,” indispensable or no longer relevant. People in his orbit regularly flip, at a second’s notice, from one category to another, in what […]

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 […]

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 […]