Innovation & Design

Podcast: Innovation of the Week

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How InnoCentive Is Still Innovative

InnoCentive, the site where companies and nonprofits post problems and anyone can solve them for cash, is always remaking itself. Today, beyond science- and engineering-based challenges, its topics include fixing the U.S. health-care system and clean tech

 

Featured Blog

I'm starting a new feature here: a regular look at green products and services that pass through my radar. Pedalite's self-powered, illuminated pedals are an ingenious 21st century new spin on a very old bike technology.

Adam Aston, Green Business

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Material Innovation

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Agriplast

A German factory uses cellulose fibers from a nearby field as a basis for light, strong, injection-molded plastic products

 

IN YOUR FACE: THE ELECTRIC CAR LIVES

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Reader A.J. Viggen Writes:

"Electric cars are wrong for America. If the range is 155 miles and you have to go 156, your car stops. Can't hike to the gas station and carry back volts."

 

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Top Stories

Wal-Mart Gets a Facelift

Gone are the mega-retailer's blocky letters, hyphen, and star. Can Wal-Mart remake itself by remaking its logo?

The Future of Gambling

WMS Industries is leading the charge in transforming the slot machine business. And it's doing so by design

What Do Teens Want?

Using its online community, Habbo, Sulake surveyed some 58,000 teenagers to compile marketing data covering cosmetics to mobile-phone preferences

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Innovation Index

The S&P/BusinessWeek Global Innovation Index tracks the performance of 25 of the world's most innovative public companies.

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Inside Beijing's National Swimming Center

A multidisciplinary design team employed an innovative digital process to produce a surprising, highly integrated envelope-and-structure combination

 

Auto Design

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The Electric Car Lives

Backed by U.S. venture capital, Norwegian company Think is betting its Ox concept vehicle can prove the electric car's time has finally arrived

 

Brand Equity

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Obama's Secret Digital Weapon

Blue State helped create the Web machine that brought in the bucks and built the buzz. Now it's looking to sign up more corporate clients

 

Game Room

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How Pixar and Wall-E Got Game

Wall-E writer/director Andrew Stanton talks about the convergence of film, animation and gaming within Pixar