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Drawing as Thinking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drawing as Thinking

David Sibbet passes along a link to a video by Milton Glaser on drawing as another form of thinking.

Embracing an Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Embracing an Innovation

A timely piece in Knowledge@Wharton on choosing innovations. Something we and all enterprises struggled with under the topic of knowledge management and portfolio...

fMRI used in Sentencing
From The Eponymous Pickle

fMRI used in Sentencing

Having just personally experienced my first fMRI, this caught my eye. Apparently the first time that this has been done in a courtroom. Not that the method is being...

An Extra Piece of Chicken
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Extra Piece of Chicken

I see that Marco Marsan has set up a new site and blog for Marco Polo, his strategic innovation company. So what is this about chicken? See his great story about...

IKEA and Facebook
From The Eponymous Pickle

IKEA and Facebook

IKEA uses facebook tagging to promote creative new store opening.-

L'Oreal Case Study on Mobility
From The Eponymous Pickle

L'Oreal Case Study on Mobility

I see that Consumer Goods Technology will be presenting a webinar tomorrow: The Booming Value of Mobility - In the Enterprise and Beyond. L'Oreal will be among...

Printing all the Science News that Fits
From The Eponymous Pickle

Printing all the Science News that Fits

I have been a fan of NYT science writing for years. Enjoyed it and thought it was well written and mostly objective. Yet now, on particularly important topic, they...

Smart as a Cat?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart as a Cat?

Just a while back I linked to a press release about how IBM had claimed to have created a brain simulation that had as many neurons and synapses as a cat. WithHere...

Smartbooks vs Notebooks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartbooks vs Notebooks

Why carry yet another unitasking device? What ultimately is the difference? Good piece on this. I would personally like it all on a smartphone device, though the...

Evolution of Pepsi vs Coke Logos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evolution of Pepsi vs Coke Logos

Brought to my attention recently the relative evolution of Pepsi vs Coke Logos. It was later pointed out to be that this is somewhat selectively inaccurate, yet...

Lining Up
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lining Up

A just discovered blog that covers aspects of queueing theory, both the idealized mathematical aspects and the psychological issues to discover how people relate...

Augmented Reality, Head-To-Head
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality, Head-To-Head

In the blog Augmented Planet a head-to-head comparison of a number of augmented reality browsers for the purpose of finding a restaurant and finding sites in London...

Things that Mobile Phones will Obsolete
From The Eponymous Pickle

Things that Mobile Phones will Obsolete

In Recombu: Ten Things that Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete. I am sure we can expect others. The laptop? -

Innovation Science Parks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Science Parks

Good piece in BusinessWeek on the building of innovation parks in cities. Contrary to the idea of having virtual companies powered by interconnectivity, which have...

Steve King SNCR Fellow of the Year
From The Eponymous Pickle

Steve King SNCR Fellow of the Year

I see that compatriot Steve King has been named SNCR Fellow of the Year. He is a great guy, runs an excellent consultancy and blog on innovation and the issues....

Reading Barcodes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reading Barcodes

Short Wired article on reading barcodes without a device, in other words with just your eyes. Cute parlor trick, but of course barcodes usually contain the code...

Intel Says Brain Will Control Computers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Says Brain Will Control Computers

Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020Brain waves will replace keyboard and mouse, dial phones and change TV channels ...'-

Sparklines in Excel
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sparklines in Excel

Sparklines (above) are a simple means of including quantitative visuals in lines of text, conceived of by Edward Tufte. Three has been recently much ado about Microsoft...

LED Tattoos
From The Eponymous Pickle

LED Tattoos

In Wired Gadget Labs: Illustrated Man. We examined the use of LEDs on clothing for advertising, which can be readily done, but this takes it to the next level...

Process Model for Data Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

Process Model for Data Mining

This CRISP-DM model was looked at within the enterprise. Re-examined. It attempts to be very detailed and universal. Worth a look though it does not seem to have...
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