Innovation

Globally, the discussion around innovation has been one of great interest especially in the wake of troubling economic times in the recent past. The discussion is strong in relation to Africa’s situation as well. Innovation sometimes can be a bit hard to describe in exact terms but one thing is for ...

Think about the great innovators for a moment. They're different. Whatever field they're in, they don't just look at the world, they see it.Great innovators are constantly trying to fix things, even if they have to break them first. They're the kid who tears apart his remote control car ...

Like most people who grew up in America, I really had no idea what to expect when I first travelled to South Africa (besides gazelles and lions).My first trip was to Johannesburg two years ago to open a new office, and I have been back several times since, most ...

I was recently asked, “how do you find innovators?” It’s an odd question really, one that I hadn’t thought about before, but one that is valuable to think through. You have to dig deeper and think why innovations happen at all, and what the power structures are that make them ...

The story about these headphones reminds me a lot of the urban legend about the space pen, but you know how you sometimes put the “L” bud in your right ear and the “R” in your left? Researchers at the Igarashi Design Interfaces Project in Tokyo, Japan have solved that.Instead of getting some ...

Being a gadget site we’re not looking at core hardware innovations that shake the world, we’re looking at the awesome innovations that knocked our socks off – or will soon. 2011 was largely a year of incremental improvements – but often the impact of radical innovations don’t become apparent for ...

Fail to innovate and you will simply be left behind. As I previously noted, this is especially the case for the African continent. Africa has, for the longest time, been relegated to the back of the classroom, the backward, war-torn, black sheep of the world. But today it is emerging, ...

The question of how to get 3D technology into every living room and a tablet computer into every hand is set to dominate Asia's largest IT fair which opens in Taiwan next week. Around 1 800 exhibitors from across the world will descend on Taipei for the Computex fair, which ...

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- collectively known as the BRICs countries -- represent the next great wave for both mobile telecommunications and marketing. Home to over 40% of the world’s population, the rise of the BRICs' emerging middle class will profoundly affect both industries.Emerging markets in ...

It is often claimed that Cape Town’s Table Mountain contains a greater number of plant species than the entire British Isles. So what is it, exactly, that causes certain environments to flourish with biodiversity and rapid evolutionary specialisation, while others lag behind?Steven Johnson’s latest book, Where Good Ideas Come From, ...