The idea to use “open processes” for different developments seems to pursue us in recent years. Besides open source soft- and hardware as well as open innovation and open science another process seems to be applicable for this basic idea of participation: product branding. But opening the firm’s branding process (or at least a part [...]
Climate protection is being discussed intensively at the moment. Often the debate is focused on the transport sector, which produces a notable portion of the overall polution. Therefore one of the crucial points is to develop and especially use non-polluting engines. In this area bags of ideas and patents exist, but mostly the problem is [...]
One of the biggest problems concerning the development of robots is their movement. There are many alternatives with wheels but the target always was to do a kind of reverse engineering of a human being. Therefore the robot should be able to walk to adress our science fiction desire optimally. Now Anybots designed a dynamically [...]
Most people know open source software but what about open source hardware? This week Bruce Perens announced the TAPR Open Hardware License (currently waiting for feedback). A really interesting approach but it’ll much harder to realise a network-based project with a product you can’t digitize. I don’t think that this initiative will lead to a [...]
Yesterday Mini USA kicked off a new advertising project: The participants of this pilot project in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami will see personalized messages on electronic billboards (or “Motherboards” as called in the campaign) triggered by RFID (Mini calls it “really fun interactive devices”) devices on board of their cars. Credit: Jim [...]
