Monday, March 08, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: Design, Leaders, Jawbone, Headset, Audio Innovation, Wall Street Journal, apps
This is the coolest piece of innovation I’ve seen so far this year… the Jawbone device
Friday, February 12, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: renewable energy,
links,
energy,
science,
car,
economist,
engineering,
eco,
euronews
This is the year for green energy. All the main players have put there money where their mouths have been for years. We will see more and more serious, competitive, ambitious lifestyle products focused on green values. Electric cars have been a persisting favourite of this column, and finally our television screens are selling us real, cool, cheaper electric cars we can be smug to be seen in.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: digital, video, knowledge, literacy, i-Pad, innovation, management, start-up
The Wall Street Journal hits the mark with and article on finding the next iPod, and why it so difficult to exploit hit products.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: digital, video, knowledge, literacy, i-Pad, innovation, management
Article of the week, by a hare’s breadth, is Ben McIntyre’s Fox or Hedgehog piece for The Times. Generously, for those who may have given up on reading in a digital age, Ben’s recorded a short video blog, so you can get the gist without all that grammar and words n’stuff.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Healthcare,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
links,
recession,
patent,
patents,
NHS,
teamwork,
solar power
Ingenious solar-powered designs, successful products from recessions past, radical innovation in the NHS, innovation events around the UK, and more – the Grant Thornton Innovation team aims to bring you the most popular business stories and useful links each month. Here’s what we’ve been reading…
Monday, January 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
global,
economist,
eco,
Sensitive Object,
augmented reality,
Wallpaper,
3-D,
Innovation Island Conference,
multiplatform
Aretha Franklin wanted us all to “reach out” and we thought it was a bit personal, but today, reaching out, touching, creates a new connection likely to integrate your finger tip with a remote control system based uniquely on acoustics.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: Innovation,
Facebook,
Bill Gates,
Mark Zuckerberg,
Ross Perot,
Steven Levitt,
Social media,
social networking,
Economist Innovation Award,
billionaire,
Superfreakonomics,
award,
Microsoft,
Google
Mark Zuckerberg has a huge problem – what’s he going to do next? This year’s Economist Innovation Award winner, the 24-year old billionaire creator and Facebook CEO, may have peaked too early. Until Facebook develops an application to tell the future, the profile of another Ivy League drop-out, entrepreneur and programmer provides some insight. Zuckerberg may be the next William Gates III – energetic, opportunistic, commercially savvy.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: links,
Twitter,
robots,
TED,
climate change,
photography
This month, the Grant Thornton team has been reading about robots with smiling faces, documenting climate change using time-lapse photography and ‘tweeting’ for a taxi home…
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
links,
Cirque du Soleil,
Innovation,
music
From the reef-like nature of innovation and new ideas, to innovation lessons from the Cirque du Soleil, here’s what the Grant Thornton Innovation team has been reading about this week…
Monday, September 14, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
FT,
Twitter,
fashion,
Dell,
IFA,
Ralph Lauren,
pay-per-click,
Samsung,
Netbook,
Sascha Pallenberg,
consumer technology,
3-D home cinema,
Berlin,
The Times,
Scott Schuman,
The Sartorialist,
Gap, Blogging
Berlin’s brand ‘n’ blog gateway opened to a flood of technology innovation last week. The annual IFA, one of the world’s largest tech exhibitions, served as the launch pad for streams of new consumer devices, not least of which is the 3-D home cinema experience. At the hotdog stands, the buzz was all about Samsung’s giant exhibition space, the heart of which was a thirty metre tall entertainment dome. It was all very sci-fi, and I’m still not sure if there was a point to it, other than to elicit hundreds of thousands of “Wow” sounds from visitors, and to create a buzz, around the hotdog stands.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: government,
iawards,
James Caan,
innovation awards,
BIS
Is your organisation British and inventive? Does its innovative products, practices and projects deserve wider recognition? Then the iawards might present an interesting opportunity. They’re the first innovation awards to be backed by the British government, in conjunction with entrepreneur and BBC2 Dragon James Caan. You can nominate your own UK-registered company but you’ll have to be quick as the deadline is 16 September 2009. So, how to enter?
Friday, September 04, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Healthcare,
Technology
| Tags: Nano-science, Robots, science, innovation, medical, technology, healthcare
Evolution and progress, they’re not always on the same page. This week, cute little simian features announced the arrival of the mammal with two mums. This is not smart science. Some years from now, teenage Cheetah will be confronting three biological parents. Married Cheetah will bring two mother-in-laws to the wedding. Researchers are considering this genetic modification for humans – they think it’s a good idea, but have they really thought it through? Spare a thought for the Yiddish kid from Brooklyn whose two mothers are disappointed he’s not a doctor or a pilot; life should not be this cruel or unusual.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
chart,
Twitter,
investors,
conversation,
inventors,
real-time,
StreamGraph,
graph,
Neoformix,
invention
Innovators, investors and inventors – and, no doubt, lots of other types beginning with ‘I’ – need to keep their ear to the ground. How can you do that in a fun way? With this new Twitter infographic, you can tune into real-time conversation just by typing in a keyword.
Monday, August 17, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
infographic,
global,
statistics,
chart,
World Patent Report,
patents
Who is leading the world in innovation right now? Using the latest data from the ‘World Patent Report: A Statistical Review’ (2008), Grant Thornton has charted the new world powers in innovation. The infographic shows which countries have filed the most patents for each dollar of research budget – and which ones have had the most patents granted. The results may surprise you…
Thursday, August 13, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
renewable energy,
energy,
science,
car,
engineering,
eco,
car industry,
fuel,
General Motors,
heathrow,
airport,
hydrogen
“Wanted: silent taxi driver - no jip, no ranting, no dodgy fare charges; must run on hydrogen.” Coming to a terminal near you, this sci-fi reality of urban transport is no false dawn.
For a generation, General Motors and Volkswagen have been focused on manufacturing autonomous vehicles for everyday public use. An initiative which began as a defence sector project to provide self-guided battle craft, has become a marketable public transport solution. If the auto-cabs we see on our streets within five years have a voice, they will smoothly declare: “This isn’t just innovation, this is marvellously spectacular innovation.”
Monday, July 27, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
research,
global,
intellectual property,
university,
science,
europe,
engineering,
robots,
defence
http://www.wordle.net/
21st Century Western defence systems are based on Sun Tzu’s assertion: “The art of using troops is this…when ten to the enemy’s one, surround him.”
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
financial,
government,
technology,
research,
energy,
university,
science,
innovators,
car
One per cent of the energy we burn driving a car is used to move the driver. In one hundred years of automotive innovation, mankind has fought financial and military battles over oil reserves; only to announce that 99% of our effort was to shift a hunk of metal. Maybe we should have kept the horses.
Monday, June 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
energy,
science,
india,
innovators,
economist
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of food giant Nestlé, told the Economist’s ‘The World in 2009’: “under present conditions… we will run out of water long before we run out of fuel”.
Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
digital
Alex Johns, MD of iblink left his job with Siemens 3 years to start up iblink which filled the niche created by technologists who knew a lot about technology and less about marketing and marketeers who knew a lot about marketing but little about technology. Today iblink is an award winning digital marketing business with a number of blue chips clients such as Titan, Superdrug, Bluewater, P&G and Unilever.
Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
microtrend,
twitter,
virul marketing,
google
Google admits it has something to learn from Twitter….
We commissioned The Economist Intelligence Unit to survey UK executives on how assumptions on business models have changed, and how companies are planning to adapt over the next 18 months.
