Ideas of the week 2-Dec-2011

This week’s post for the Ideas of the week featuring ideas that might change our world.

 

 

1. You can now have green feet, or shoes rather.
Biodegradable

Oat Shoes, a brand new Amsterdam-based initiative that’s combining shoe design and biodegradable materials. Once you’re done wearing the shoes (after a very long time, of course) you can bury them in the garden, in the compost heap or even plant something in them. More

 

 

2. Videoinfographic: The world of social media
Social Media

This video info-graphic shows all the latest facts & figures about various social media sites. More

 

 

 

3. Let this website pick your poison
Design + Web

Drinkify is a web app that purports to find the best drink to go along with the band or musician you’re listening to. Just enter the band name and let the app do the work; some names will yield strange ‘drinks’. More

 

 

 

4. For beer brand, A  website made up of chocolate
Design + Web

For the launch of Sagres Preta Chocolate  a stout beer with a chocolate flavor by Portugal’s number one beer brand Sagres-digital agency Grand Union created the first website made of chocolate. More

 

 

 

5. Philographics: Explaining philosophy through basic shapes.
Philosophy + Design

Designer Genis Carreras explores with remarkable visual eloquence in his Philographics project – a series of posters each capturing a single philosophical ideology through simple geometric shapes.More

 

 

 

6.  Recycling a bottle, flashmob style
Recycle

This interesting flash mob takes place in a food court emphasizing on recycling waste. More

 

 

 

 

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Meanwhile the idea of the week at our Garage Sale

Virtual Guide : Installation & Maintenance

A tool to help the on-field trainer collect the right training instructions for the day. More

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week’s post compiled by Karan Guglani

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Ideas of the week 7th-Oct-2011

 

future technology

We all have ideas worth sharing, and this is the place to do it. We are particularly interested in those ideas which might make a significant difference in the world in which we live. This blog post under the heading of Ideas of the week is a part of a series of weekly posts by us where we will share with you some of the ideas/links that we come across during the week and find interesting. We would love your feedback on our posts and we would love it even more if you share some links with us too!

 

1. A post by BostInnovation on how NFC technology could impact mobile payment in the near future

Mobile payments are becoming more and more commonplace in society with the increase in  smartphones and advanced mobile devices, More

 

 

2. The Indian Chulha made healthier and being promoted as a healthier cooking mechanism across the world. Read more about the initiative here.

The Low Smoke Stove is a low-tech solution to enable healthy indoor cooking. This stove has been developed to fight the ill-effects of indoor air-pollution, More

 

 

3. Content Marketing- An infographic depicting the process of content marketing

Content marketing is the art of communicating with your customers and prospects without selling. It is non-interruption marketing. Instead of pitching your products or services, More

4. Intel’s Skool Software brings free material for healthcare workers

The Intel Skool Health Education Platform provides anytime, anywhere media content delivery and assessment platform. The idea is to help healthcare workers in developing nations treat women and children better,  More

 

5. Paypal – An interesting video to showing how the way we shop can drastically change

The future is about creating real consumer choice, flexibility and control over how people shop and pay. The future of money is already happening with PayPal. More

 

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This week’s post compiled by:Karan Guglani