The Tricorder, an invention from Star Trek The TV series Star Trek invented a device, the Tricorder, which was rather unnoticed until Qualcomm decided to create an Open Innovation challenge around it. One version of the Tricorder was helping human beings to make their own reliable health diagnoses in less…
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Orange crowdsourcing Platform: Imagine with Orange
Orange crowdsourcing Platform Orange innovation teams are harnessing the power of crowdsourcing by tapping into the collective wisdom of the people at the very forefront of the digital revolution: consumers. As part of the “Imagine with Orange” initiative, your ideas take on a global dimension, giving you the chance to…
IdeXlab welcomes 4 major industrial groups amongst its customers
IdeXlab keeps growing ideXlab Customers – Safran, Thales, Airbus Defense and Space and Schneider Electric are already familiar with the concepts of Open Innovation. They have however recognised the novelty of the ideXlab’s solution and subscribed to it to deepen their Open Innovation practice. Thanks to ideXlab’s online services one can discover…
The World Ranking of Innovation: What to Think About it?
An Innovation Ranking It is quite popular to see rankings of all sorts in newspapers or TV shows. We are always intringued and want to know who is first, where we are, how others are ranked… human after all, right ? INSEAD, Cornell University and the WIPO have published a…
Innovations of Football Stadiums during the World Cup (2014)
Innovations of Football Stadiums The New Technologies For those of you who we were not interested in the #WC2014 or were travelling to the moon, may be you have not noticed the Innovations of football stadiums this year. They were a few, detailed in a nice article by the Washington…
Open Innovation from the 18th century
Ancient forms of Open Innovation A refreshing article was posted on July 1st on the World Industrial Reporter website in relation with an earlier article by Innovation Excellence. It mentions Open Innovations from… the 19th century ! And it is true that the Marine Chronometer was invented by John Harrison in…
Is car safety too expensive ?
Is car safety too expensive ? General Motors has announced the recall of more than 2 million vehicles for safety reasons. This brings the total number of cars recalled by the manufacturer to more than 13 million in the United States in the past year, more than the total production…
Would Tetris be useful for more than to kill time ?
An Unsuspected Usefulness Tetris was launched by a Russian scientist in 1984. 30 years later, 70 million games were sold, Tetris has been downloaded to 130 million mobile phones and over one billion people have tried it (3 million per day on facebook some says) ! Yet it is so…
Internet from Space
Google wants to deploy hundreds of satellites There is much talk about internet from space, or say by satellite, since Google announced plans to deploy hundreds of satellites worth 1b$ to provide fast internet access to uncovered areas. Many research focuses on the internet from space already: what telecommunication protocols,…