A VC's Advice On How To Pitch VCs

"Raj Kapoor gives entreprenuers advice on how to pitch VCs." Washington Post

The 9th Annual Year in Ideas

"The Times Magazine looks back on the past year from our favored perch." - NYT

At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = instant battery

"Dip an ordinary piece of paper into ink infused with carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires, and it turns into a battery or supercapacitor. Crumple the piece of paper, and it still works. Stanford researcher Yi Cui sees many uses for this new way of storing electricity." - Stanford University

Boxee Unveils Set-Top Box

"Essentially, it's an Apple TV without all of Apple's debilitating limitations and DRM." - Fast Company

Rethinking Green: Save the evironment: Don't take transit Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2314104#ixzz0Z6NrP0P1 The Nation

"For the bulk of the day, and on quieter routes, the average city bus usually undoes whatever efficiencies are gained during the few hours a day, on the few routes, where transit is at its peak."

AliasDesign - Interview:Peter Kossev

"Peter Kossev shares his insight and practical knowledge for working with Alias, including his first experience with the program and how it improves conceptual design, sharing, and workflow." - Autodesk

Books: 100 Habits for Successful Freelance Designers

"Insider Secrets for Working Smart and Staying Creative. It may sound like one of those "we'll-tell you-how-to-save -your-life" books but it really has a bunch of precious suggestions for us, brave freelance designers." - spotd.it

The Experience Imperative: A Manifesto for Industrial Designers, by Ken Fry

"Even though I've been practicing interaction design for most of my career, it is my industrial design experience that has enabled me to straddle the worlds of both hardware and software. Over the years I've seen interaction design thrive while the industrial design profession has gone into decline. I think we need to challenge the practice of industrial design. We need to adopt new behaviors to make the discipline healthy again." - Core77

Reflections: The Designers Accord Global Summit on Sustainability & Education

"The Designers Accord Global Summit on Sustainability & Education held October 23rd & 24th in San Francisco, marked an important step forward for the sustainable design movement." - Core77

Five Questions With … David Fitzgibbons

"David Fitzgibbons is an executive recruiter for the toy industry." - Inventors

DIY Windowsfarm kit

"Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray started a Windowfarming craze in New York City, encouraging people to grow their own food year-round in apartment windows. These vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield window gardens can be built, DIY-style, from recycled local materials. The project continues at Eyebeam, where Windowfarmers can contribute to ongoing research and development." - Core 77

Making sense of Design Thinking: Three definitions, two problems and one big question.

"It won’t surprise anyone who read this blog that I am not an admirer of the Design Thinking phenomenon. I will call myself a skeptic observer. However I am not directly oppose to it. If you wonder how come, you should consider the confused and blurred presentation of Design Thinking throughout the design world - I don’t know if I’m ‘against’ or ‘for’ something so ill defined. So while trying to refine the point for myself, I am defining it in three ways, noting two major problems and asking a question." - Fast Company

Brilliant Strata pot helps raise a tree indoors before returning to the environment

"Designer Kazuyo Shimada spent three years traveling the world and surfing before eventually settling back in Japan and founding Dessence, an architecture and design firm." - Core 77

Tutorial: Creating landing surfaces on curved surfaces. (pictured above)

"In this tutorial Chris Hisey shows you a simple, fast and effective way to create landing surfaces with the greatest amount of freedom to make them look like they belong as part of your original design." - Autodesk

Boeing 787 interior by BMW DesignworksUSA

"Design studio DesignworksUSA has developed an interior design for long range aircraft which is based on an original three-dimensional concept. The project was commissioned by Boeing for its 777, 787 and 747-800 models." - car body design

Move Like a Cheetah with this Incredible Human Powered Vehicle

"Is it a tricycle? Is it a weird bike? It's neither. Called Pardo, as an abbreviation of the word guepardo (which is cheetah in Spanish), this human powered vehicle seeks to imitate the movement and feeling of the animal. See how it works and more pics in the extended." - Treehugger

Alias - how to do Modelling Strategy and Patch Layout

"When I run training courses, one of the questions I’m constantly asked is how to do Modelling Strategy and Patch Layout. Sometimes you know every tool in Alias, but you still don’t know how to start on a complex model." - Autodesk

Economic Recovery Inspires Innovation and Frustration

"As innovation revives, companies struggle to make it boost profitable growth. GE, Tata Motors, Marvel, and Virgin Galactic offer diverse models" - BusinessWeek

SHAG: “Autumn’s Come Undone”- 11.19.09

"His new exhibition “Autumn’s Come Undone” represents a turning point for Agle, adopting darker themes and a deeper palette to explore life’s excesses." - Notcot

Tim Burton at MoMA

"Last night marked the opening of the Tim Burton exhibit at MoMA in New York CIty. The exhibit is a staggering look at the depth of Burton’s work that starts from pages torn out of childhood notebooks (a “list of jokes I’ve heard” includes “fart jokes” and “elephant jokes”), runs through his student years at California Institute of the Arts and rounds out with his expansive film career." - otto

On Call: Does cell phone design still matter?

"Though handset design has long been the focus of cell phone development, hardware manufacturers appear to be shifting their attention." - CNET

Recognize Canada's missing millions

"How is it possible for more than 4.5 million Canadian citizens to go missing? Did they just drop off the map? Did anybody organize a search party?" - The Star

The Upside of Turbulence: How Innovation Saved Nokia

"Don Sull teaches “International and Strategic Management” at the London Business School. His new book is The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunities in an Uncertain World." - BNET Insight

Designers, Take a Look at Evidence-Based Design for Health Care

"Evidence-based design (EBD) is a methodology for the design of health care environments, such as hospitals and clinics, in which decisions about the built environment are based on “credible research to achieve the best possible outcomes."" - Fast Company

He Prizes Questions More Than Answers

"This interview with Tim Brown, the chief executive and president of IDEO, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant." - NYT

German company GRACE produced the world's first e-motorbike

"German company GRACE produced the world's first e-motorbike. It might look like a futuristic version of a regular bike, but it is actually the world’s first e-motorbike that you are allowed to ride on the street. The bike is handmade in Germany, using euro-fighter plane parts and formula one parts and will be coming out this month. The frame is basically indestructible and all controls are included in the handlebars, such as lights, battery management, alarm system and everything else one could need. The grace can be ordered now for prices starting from 5877 EUR + VAT." - MUST