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Archive for January, 2008

city of the future

Posted by maz on January 26th, 2008

The year is 2108. Here in San Francisco, water is a precious resource and the population has doubled–or even tripled. How will the city accommodate these challenges? And what’s it going to look like? That was the task eight architecture firms tackled in the History Channel’s “City of the Future” competition (CNET video). Architects from [...]

innovation book of the year

Posted by maz on January 24th, 2008

The 800-CEO-READ Blog awarded the Business Book of the Year in the category “Innovation/Creativity”: Credit: amazon.com Group Genius, The Creative Power of Collaboration, by Keith Sawyer At amazon.com you’ve the chance to read at least the first pages of the excerpt online. “Collaboration drives creativity because innovation always emerges from a series of sparks – [...]

R2-D2 arouses childhood memories

Posted by maz on January 19th, 2008

A new DVD projector from Nikko was presented at the CES. It supports nearly all formats, has an integrated speaker system, an iPod docking station, numerous audio and video ins and outs, a card reader and a lot more such gimmicks. That’s all fine, but there is one thing that coaxes a smile out of [...]

“The Lego of gadgets”

Posted by maz on January 13th, 2008

That’s what Rafe Needleman from Webware called the new product of Bug Labs, that is presented at CES 2008. It’s an open source (concerning soft- AND hardware) plattform that starts with a minicomputer [...] onto which you can snap multiple modules, such as a digital camera, an LCD screen or a GPS-module. The device has [...]

Happy Birthday, cilinc!

Posted by maz on January 9th, 2008

One year ago the first post that was not only indulging in self-contemplation was published on cilinc.net. So it’s time to sing … [youtube yj6cbM-h8xg nolink]


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