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Forty years to the day after astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin made their giant leap for mankind, that first moon landing stands as a monument to human innovation. Of course, hoax theories still abound: one claims Stanley Kubrick filmed Apollo 11 and 12 while working on 2001: A Space Odyssey, while another insists 382 kilograms of moon rocks collected by Apollo missions were actually gathered from Antarctica. But other claims are more empirical.
The 25,000 beauty professionals at this mega makeup meet will have to slap on a brave face. Though the cosmetics sector stayed pert in previous recessions — lipstick sales rose 11% just after 9/11 — this slump is having an ugly effect on the $45 billion industry. According to NPD Group, a market-research firm, makeup-sector sales slid 7% in the first three months of 2009; eye shadow sagged by 9% and lip liner drooped 15%
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Cosmoprof in Vegas
The founder of Frog Design–whose works helped transform both Sony and Apple into high-design brands–talks with Gizmodo about his work, and his new book. For sheer influence, Hartmut Esslinger is hard to top: Not only did he found Frog Design , he also helped transform not one, but two consumer electronics brands into design powerhouses.
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Catching Up With Hartmut Esslinger, Design Genius
In a values-driven company, it’s relatively easy to engage employees: they sign up and show up for our annual global service days, use their Path of Service benefit (paid time off to volunteer) and are actively involved in community-based impact and awareness programs. We don’t have to mandate civic engagement or force them to act on issues they care about–whether by nature or self-selection or, some might suggest, drinking too much of our Kool-Aid–employees here just “get it.” In recent years our board of directors has challenged us, in the way boards do, on the actual value of being a values-driven company.
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Engaging Your Employees with Emotional Benefits
How would Facebook be different today if its social operating system was built into Apple’s OS X? The two companies spent a lot of time collaborating early on. But, as Facebook’s senior platform manager and former Apple employee Dave Morin tells it, there was resistance within Apple to “the idea that social is even something a computer can do.” Morin’s tale, recorded at Fast Company’s Most Creative People conference in June, offers excellent insight into how Facebook figured out how to make its plan successful even as other companies failed to see its potential
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What Would a Facebook Collaboration With Apple Look Like? It Almost Happened…
Apple isn’t the only company with some creative plans for smartphone UIs: Nokia just revealed how it thinks we might control our phones in the future. There’ll be a lot of waving them in the air. Though Nokia was horribly late to join the touchscreen phone game, along with all its gesture-based UI goodness, it looks like its design team really has some novel ideas about enhancing the way we’ll interact with its phones without having to use buttons.
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Nokia Wants You To Control Your Phone Without Buttons
Using specially designed motion-capture technology, an ad agency created unusual free tie-in for Toyota’s new car. Toyota wanted a clever promo giveaway related to its new, ultra compact car, the iQ. Happiness-Brussels , an ad agency, responded with an ingenious solution: Why not a font, drawn using the car’s own tires
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Stunt Driving Meets Typography, in a Font Using Skid Marks
Yesterday at the Worldwide Partners Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner regaled attendees with a tale of the “greatest single phone call in the history that I’ve ever taken in business.” Not to be tripped up by a grammatical error or two, Turner went on to tell the crowd that Apple’s legal team dialed him up a couple weeks ago demanding Microsoft pull its successful “Laptop Hunters” ad campaign from the air (Apple had lowered its prices and the ads, they claimed, were now misleading).
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The "Greatest Single Phone Call in the History" That We’ve Never Heard
YouTube has become our national trove of free video, a place where a company can find a free platform for video marketing junk and individuals can watch dogs sleepwalk. But as we’ve discussed before , the Web’s video giant costs Google an unsustainable amount of money each year, regardless of the paltry revenue the site has earned from advertising. So the conversation continues: how does Google make YouTube profitable without killing the service we know and love?
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The Big, Awkward Problem of YouTube Fees
NASA’s getting into the swing of celebrating 40 years since Armstrong and Aldrin strolled on the Moon, and the latest party piece is some restored TV footage of those famous moments. It’s all very nice, but we must do better next time. NASA’s been busy on the project for a little while, working with Lowry Digital–experts in digital image processing–to tackle the video tapes of the incredibly historic first moonwalk on July 20, 1969
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Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video Looks Good–Could Be Better
The gadget manages to tell time in a novel way, while serving as a moving piece of wall art. When designers tackle the problem of designing a new clock, the results, beautiful as they might be, don’t typically reinvent the actual way we tell time–the designer usually cleans up the clock face, for example, but the result isn’t too much different from what’s come before. Not so, with the Continue Time clock, designed by Sander Mulder .
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Sander Mulder’s Clock Tranforms Time Into Kinetic Art
A reverb (or reverberation) is typically used to describe sound–or more specifically the instance where a sound continues despite the original source of the sound being removed. If you apply the same idea to social media, a reverb describes the unique fact that every action in social media is not just done, but is also broadcast across a particular individual’s social graph online. The newsfeed on Facebook is an example of this, as it not only announces life changes and hourly moods, but also whether someone is going to an event or not and what groups or causes someone supports
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Reverb: The Real Secret to Marketing With Social Media
The army has slowly taken advantage of advances in renewable energy with algae-derived jet fuel, trash-powered electricity generators, and now solar-powered aerial drones. The Air Force has spent $450,000 on a project researching the viability of dye-sensitized solar cells as a power source for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The cells, which use bacterial pigment to convert solar energy into electricity, are made out of a flexible film and thin glass coating.
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Future Air Force Drones to Be Powered by Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Palm just waved its magic wand and abracadabra’d the Mojo Software Development Kit into public reality. It’s the software that developers have been waiting for, and it could turn the Pre into something much more interesting. Palm kept the SDK close to its chest, and chose to work with only a restricted number of carefully-selected developers to get a couple handfuls of apps ready for the Palm Pre’s much-anticipated launch.
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Smartphone App Wars: Palm’s Mojo Application SDK Stumbles Into Battle
The thought of having blind drivers on the road seems like a disaster waiting to happen, but the Blind Driver Challenge team at Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory aims to safely put the blind in control of steering wheels. The team’s retrofitted buggy, which has been tested by blind volunteers on a closed course at Virginia Tech, uses a voice command interface, laser range finders, and other sensory technology to guide drivers in the right direction.
Lance Armstrong is powering his way back onto the international stage, but this time it’s not simply for sport. While Armstrong pursues yet another Tour de France title somewhere in Burgundy, the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s “Stages” art exhibition and sale debuts in Paris today, celebrating the human potential to overcome adversity. To promote the show, Armstrong will pedal across the countryside on rigs designed by artists like Damien Hirst and Shepard Fairey, who will also provide original Armstrong-inspired works to show in Paris alongside nearly 20 other renowned artists
Given the considerable expense and work of ‘transforming’ a medical practice into a medical home, providing this option makes sense not only to the DMCB, but also m … Pap smears for healthy women over age 65 years – answer Chest x-rays to screen for lung cancer – answer P…
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Chronic Disease Management and Building Medical Homes Without Having to Transform Primary Care Practice in the Senate HELP Committee Reform Bill
Like it or not, for most major shoe manufacturers, China is the place to be. Pretty much whatever you need to make shoes–from factories with trained and available labor, to the largest concentration of leather tanneries on earth, to component suppliers of the mundane and the exotic–you can find in Guangzhou Province. As a “one-stop shop,” China offers efficiency both in time and resources–scarce commodities from any CEO’s point of view
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Building the Right Model for Business in China
In a small garage in Cedar Park, Texas outside of Austin, there is the start of a new company that reflects an emerging trend in small business. Russell Andersen is using the post-industrial refuse of America’s computer-aided manufacturing revolution to create a new type of microenterprise–one that is built around aging high-tech tools and very niche markets enabled by Internet-based social networks and GAAP accounting. He is using a fully-depreciated, 20-plus-year-old CNC (computer-numeric-controlled) milling machine he sourced from Craigslist for less than one-tenth of its cost new, and he’s running it with equally antiquated computer hardware and software
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The New American Post-Industrial Microenterprise
The tech-savviness of the Iranian people served them well during the protests against corruption in the recent election, and now it’s making them turn against cellphone giant Nokia–a government colluder in their eyes. According to information obtained by The Guardian newspaper, the sales of Nokia handsets in the country have fallen by up to 50%. And it’s all because Nokia, in partnership with Siemens as Nokia Siemens Networks, sold the Iranian government a cellphone network monitoring system when it worked to expand the country’s cellphone system last year
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Iranians Revolting Against Nokia for Alleged Spying Complicity