Posted By Jop Timmers In these times of pandemics Vodafone launched DreamLab, a very clever little app that helps to beat diseases. Together with major medical research institutes like the Imperial College London (Covid 19, cancer, genetics and foods), the AIRC (cancer) and the Garvan Institute (genetics) complex projects were defined that need an immense power of computing. This […]

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Posted By Mark Maples Designing and selling products for consumers at the bottom of the pyramid has many challenges. Besides the severe affordability constraints, innovations need to be appropriate for the target markets. Basing solutions and technologies around household items can be one method for addressing these barriers. Using household items addresses some of the most difficult financial barriers […]

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Posted By Jop Timmers How can you get most designs for the lowest costs? Do crowdsourcing! Go to www.designcrowd.com or to 99designs.com or maybe even better start a design competition and invite as many designers as possible. Surely this will get you truckloads of ideas and designs, right? Welll, will it? This video of TopicSimple explains the downsides and risks of […]

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Posted By Jop Timmers It’s been a while, I have been busy working on some great projects that I will soon publish on the website. But I never stopped looking for the latest on innovation and sustainability, and here are some of the most popular links I shared on Twitter: About innovation and product design We live in a magnicifent […]

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Posted By Jop Timmers Zenzr is a public lighting platform that manages the intensity of streetlights dynamically, significantly reducing energy consumption, CO2 emissions and light pollution when demand is low. And it can do a lot more… In the public area, lighting provides safety and comfort. Public lighting is everywhere and energy consumed by it is the single largest […]

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