Simple designs that could save millions of lives
Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal.
About Amy Smith:
Mechanical engineer Amy Smith’s approach to problem-solving in developing nations is refreshingly common-sense: Invent cheap, low-tech devices that [...]
Simplicity patterns
The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.
About John Maeda:
John Maeda is a programmer and an artist — and is committed to blurring the lines between the two disciplines. As a student at MIT, [...]
Innovation at Google
Innovation for its own sake is useless. Period. And no one knows this better than the company who redefined the rules of information search. In this interesting 50 minute presentation, Google CIO Douglas Merrill tells us about innovation at Google. He highlights the importance of speed, the user experience, machine translation, defining innovation, relevance and [...]
Our Cell Phones, Ourselves
Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. Along the way, he’s made some unexpected discoveries: about the novel ways illiterate people interface with their cellphones, or the role the cellphone can sometimes play in commerce, or [...]
Future Mobile Technology
Younghee Jung leads a multidisciplinary research team at Nokia called “Insight and Innovation” (download PowerPoint slides from Nokia Connection 2007 conference). Jung talks about what to expect next from your mobile phone, the newest ideas in the pipeline, and the questions that Nokia is asking women.
She spends the first half of the video describing how [...]
