Archives: December 2007

Dell Makes One Amazing Laptop.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 23

In a Ripley's Believe It Or Not tale, I have a story to tell about my Dell Latitude D400 laptop that survived an extraordinary flight. Two weeks ago, I was...

MIT Meets RISD: John Maeda Becomes President.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 21

In a brilliant move, John Maeda from the MIT Media Lab, is taking over as the new president of RISD, one of preeminent art and design schools in the world....

Top Ten Innovation Mistakes.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 20

We have a survey of surveys done by the big consulting firms on innovation showing that CEOs believe innovation is critical to their companies' performance but don't really know how...

Fastest Boat Powered By Human Fat. Is It Ecological?

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 19

This may be the fastest boat ever built--the Earthrace--and it's powered by fat. Peter Bethune, a New Zealander, will take it out on March 1--using some of his own fat...

Innovation In India--Part Two. Design Thinking Is The Answer.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 19

Shilajeet (Banny) Banerjee, who runs the Joint Program in Design at Stanford, gave a really insightful speech at the CII_NID conference. He talked about growth being a profound paradox...

Innovation In India--Part One.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 19

I believe India is in the early stages of an innovation and design explosion of enormous proportions--this is my conclusion after attending the CII-NID (Confederation of Indian Industry--National Institute of...

Apple's iPhone Will Fail In India. And Maybe Britain too.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 17

A number of Indians at the summit on design and innovation in Bangalore last week were carrying hacked iPhones around and they complained that Apple didn't get it when it...

My Speech At The Indian Design Summit.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 16

I just spent a remarkable week at an event that, in effect, launched the modern design movement in India. I'll be blogging about it over the next couple of days...

Are Magazines The Killer App For The iPhone?

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 07

No, seriously, zinio is one of the top ten applications for the iPhone according to Apple's iPhone site and zinio is the software that gives you an incredibly good electronic...

A Huge Innovation And Design Conference In India.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 07

I'm off to India next week to give a keynote speech to the CII-NID (Confederation of Indian Industries--National Institute of Design) Conference. China, of course, has been sharply increasing its...

Martha Stewart, Francis Ford Coppola and illy Coffee Market Together. What's That About?

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 05

I was eating at the Landmark restaurant in the TimeWarner building in New York and, as I was leaving, ran into Martha Stewart and Francis Ford Coppola sitting together with...

NASA's Nifty Site Has Great Social Media.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 04

People are always asking me for examples of websites that incorporate social media and I'm tired of pointing them to Nike+ so here is another site--NASA. Perfect for checking out...

Dell Goes Hot In Design.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 03

Dell is moving heavily into design to get away from its corporate commodity/low price business model and shift into a personal experience/higher price model. So I'm not totally surprised by...

One Laptop Per Child Has It's First Test. Result? It Has A Long Way To Go.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on December 03

BBC News has a story on the very first introduction of One Laptop Per Child laptops into a poor village and it's not pretty. OLPC put 300 laptops, along with...