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A gorgeous cinematic introduction to Turin, Italy
Even for those who don’t understand Italian, this is quite a spectacular introduction to Turin (or “Torino”), Italy, and its surrounding region. The videos are shot in gorgeous high definition quality by the Turin movie director Luciano De Simone and…
SAP user experience testing
Kitchen Budapest, Magyar Telekom’s innovation lab
Magyar Telekom‘s new media lab Kitchen Budapest (KiBu), opened in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental…
Standford’s Design and Medical Schools team up on Respira for asthma sufferers
Jeannie Choe reports on Core77 how Stanford University’s Design School and School of Medicine teamed up to create Respira, an extremely affordable device for better asthma care. “In order for asthma inhalers to perform effectively, the discharged medicine must be…
Charmr, a laudable Adaptive Path R&D project
United Airlines magazine on ethnography in business
Rapid manufacturing’s role in the factory of the future
New MFA in experience design in Sweden
Not being there
Nokia design director on emerging markets
Antti Kujala, a design director at Nokia’s headquarters in Espoo, Finland, spearheaded Nokia’s strategy and design development. He spoke to Nandini Lakshman of Business Week in New Delhi about the nuances of designing for emerging markets and about future mobile…
Second thoughts on Second Life
Fing: the next generation internet foundation from France
For some time now I have been following the French innovation blog Internet Actu, not realising that it was part of a bigger initiative called “Fing“. Fing stands for “Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération”, or the the next generation internet foundation,…
How feature creep ruined the moleskine city notebook
‘Game School’ aims to engage and educate
Social networks affecting health
What’s good for a business can be hard on friends
Mobile providers claim to support social networks, but then actually hinder them in practice, as shown in this example from the US market (reported in The New York Times). In the US, T-Mobile is the exception with MyFaves allowing to…