Hey, That's a Great Ideafundamentals | Hey, That's a Great Idea http://heythatsagreatidea.com Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:26:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Design Business Review http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/04/design-business-review/ http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/04/design-business-review/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:18:48 +0000 the idea collector http://heythatsagreatidea.com/?p=408 If you’re a designer you need be checking out the Design Business Review.

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]]> http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/04/design-business-review/feed/ 2 Marc Newson Documentary http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/03/marc-newson-documentary/ http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/03/marc-newson-documentary/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:35:24 +0000 the idea collector http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/03/marc-newson-documentary/ This BBC documentary on industrial designer Marc Newson offers great insight into his creative and production processes. It is available in 5 parts on youTube:

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]]> http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/03/marc-newson-documentary/feed/ 0 Extended Interview with Gary Hustwit – Dwell Blog – dwell.com http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/02/extended-interview-with-gary-hustwit-dwell-blog-dwellcom/ http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/02/extended-interview-with-gary-hustwit-dwell-blog-dwellcom/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:57:08 +0000 the idea collector http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/02/extended-interview-with-gary-hustwit-dwell-blog-dwellcom/

More on the forthcoming Objectified documentary; this time an interview with the director, Gary Hustwit:

Extended Interview with Gary Hustwit – Dwell Blog – dwell.com

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]]> http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/02/extended-interview-with-gary-hustwit-dwell-blog-dwellcom/feed/ 0 Bill Gates at TED 2009 http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/02/bill-gates-at-ted-2009/ http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/02/bill-gates-at-ted-2009/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:21:05 +0000 the idea collector http://heythatsagreatidea.com/?p=388 Bill Gates talks about two of his latest philanthropic efforts at the annual TED conference going on this week; conquering malaria and making teachers great.

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]]> http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/02/bill-gates-at-ted-2009/feed/ 0 Objectified Movie Screenings Announced http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/02/objectified-movie-screenings-announced/ http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/02/objectified-movie-screenings-announced/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:23:56 +0000 the idea collector http://heythatsagreatidea.com/?p=368 Tickets are available online:

Objectified Screenings.

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]]> http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/02/objectified-movie-screenings-announced/feed/ 0 Nature Podcast – More on Flexible Electronics http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/nature-podcast-more-on-flexible-electronics/ http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/nature-podcast-more-on-flexible-electronics/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:06:33 +0000 the idea collector http://heythatsagreatidea.com/?p=360 More discussion on the organic transistors enabling the flexible electronics I wrote about yesterday on the Nature Podcast this week:

Download this episode of the Podcast
Nature Podcast on iTunes

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]]> http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/nature-podcast-more-on-flexible-electronics/feed/ 0 Flexible Thin-film Electronics http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/flexible-thin-film-electronics/ http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/flexible-thin-film-electronics/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:12:10 +0000 the idea collector http://heythatsagreatidea.com/?p=358 The New York Times is running a story about a new flexible electronics technology.

Graphene is a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms (the building block, in fact, of the graphite used in pencils) and has properties that make electronics engineers swoon.

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In addition to being nearly transparent and having excellent electrical characteristics, the films are unaffected by bending or stretching.

This will make product design engineers swoon as well. Flexible electronics could mean the end of the single-plane constraint on PCBs that we have been designing around.

The NYT story is here:  With an Ultrathin Film, a Big Step Forward for Flexible Electronics

Originally published in Nature.

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]]> http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/flexible-thin-film-electronics/feed/ 0 IDEO/BUG Concepts Posted http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/ideobug-concepts-posted/ http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/ideobug-concepts-posted/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:50:15 +0000 the idea collector http://heythatsagreatidea.com/?p=350 Yesterday IDEO posted some very well presented in-process concepts for BUG UI design opportunities. They started by presenting some Mid-Project Concept Sketches. Download the PDF. Seriously, it’s inspiring.

They followed up with a post on each proposed concept:

  1. Concept 1 – e-Ink over Tactile Switches
  2. Concept 2 – Color LCD w/ Capacitive Touch
  3. Concept 3 – Monochrome Matrix LCD with Segmented Multicolor Backlight
  4. Concept 4 – Customizable Illuminated Buttons w/ Side Status Panel
  5. Concept 5 – NTE (Near-To-Eye) Micro-Display with Trackball

Very interesting concepts and very well presented. So well, in fact, that IDEO acknowledged the polished appearance and posted a few photos of the work-in-progress. Extra points for prototyping ePaper graphics on a Kindle.

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]]> http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/ideobug-concepts-posted/feed/ 0 Gary Hustwit talks with Doug Pray http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/gary-hustwit-talks-with-doug-pray/ http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/gary-hustwit-talks-with-doug-pray/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:41:25 +0000 the idea collector http://heythatsagreatidea.com/?p=329 I just found this interview between Gary Hustwit, director of the new Objectified movie, and Doug Pray, director of the new Art & Copy movie.

Art & Copy is all about advertising. Objectified, as I’ve previously written, is all about product design. Hustwit and Pray find some interesting common ground in discussing what they each learned during the making of their films.

The mp3 is available on the SXSX Film page.

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]]> http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/gary-hustwit-talks-with-doug-pray/feed/ 0 Objectified Premiere: SXSW Film Fest ’09 http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/objectified-premiere-sxsw-film-fest-09/ http://heythatsagreatidea.com/2009/01/objectified-premiere-sxsw-film-fest-09/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:45:36 +0000 the idea collector http://heythatsagreatidea.com/?p=327 The “Objectified” movie I wrote about earlier this month is officially scheduled to debut at the SXSW Film Fest in March with preview screenings in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and London which will be announced later.

The official announcement is here:  Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit.

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