Unexpected Products
Revolution in Our Relationship with Technology
Our relationship with technology is going through a revolution. A week and a half ago my Mother came back from a 5 week trip to Egypt where she was researching for her PhD. Last weekend we used Google Earth to look at the places she had been. The fun thing was we didn’t go off [...]
What Business can Learn from Avatar
Over the last couple of days the Avatar movie has broken a Billion dollars in sales just 3 weeks after its release. I saw Avatar a couple of nights ago and was blown away. While I see a few people criticising aspects of the movie, it is difficult to deny the power of the totally immersive entertainment experience [...]
Business – the Decade for Making a Difference
I’ve been reflecting on something Seth Godin wrote in his New Year’s day post welcome to the frustration decade: …And, to top it off, savings are thin and resource availability isn’t what it used to be. A lot of people ate their emergency rations during the last decade. Look for this frustration to be acted [...]
iPod Touch MityMic Samples with Background Noise
I have been asked a couple of times how well the TouchMic.com MityMic microphone records when there is background noise. This post provides a couple of samples of MityMic recordings in environments with background noise. For further details on the MityMic microphone refer to my previous post iPod Touch MityMic Review and Audio Samples. MityMic [...]
One for One – TOMS Shoes
You’ve got to love TOMS Shoes‘ business model: “with every pair of shoes you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need – One for One“. Since starting in 2006, TOMS Shoes has given away more than 300,000 pairs of shoes to needy children in the United States, Argentina, [...]
How to Transfer Audio Files from Voxie Pro to your PC
I use Voxie Pro on my iPod Touch to record audio files using my TouchMic.com MityMic microphone. I then edit these files and convert them into MP3 format using Audacity on our PC. A question I have been asked a couple of times is how to transfer audio files from Voxie on the iPod Touch [...]
I Yike the Yike Bike
I have been fascinated by the New Zealand designed and developed Yike Bike, which has been profiled on New Zealand TV3 recently, and has also been launched at the Germany Eurobike Show this last week. The Yike Bike is an electric bike, that can be collapsed and carried away in a carry bag. With a [...]
Create a Professional Commerical Website on WordPress for Less than US$150
Setting up a professional looking commercial website – that must be time consuming and expensive – right? Wrong! a friend Shaun McGavin and I recently set up a professional commercial website for Shaun’s photography business. We set it up over 3 or 4 evenings, around 3 hours per evening. It cost less than US$150 to set [...]
Weepals Toilet Aim Stickers
With two young kids, my wife is a loyal reader of parent and child type magazines. Recently she came across an advert in one of these magazines for Weepals. Weepals is a sticker of a red car that you put in the toilet for little boys to aim at. Once hit the sticker reveals the [...]
Interface Looking after Tomorrow’s Child
We have a choice to make during our brief brief visit to this beautiful green and blue living planet – to hurt it or to help it. Ray Anderson, Founder of Interface, 2009 I watched the below presentation from Ray Anderson on www.ted.com a couple of days ago and it was an unexpected inspiration. From [...]