Innovation
Open data or bust: the road to the digital public square
All of us would applaud moves toward greater openness and transparency in government, but is the bureaucracy ready to reveal all its cards by making hard-to-find data available in web and mobile device software applications?
New tool for innovators looking for grants
Design Victoria today launched Transform Your Design Business, an online guide that aims to equip designers with the know-how to successfully navigate the grants space and write strong grant applications.
Designer mum launches Crowdfunding model to rid the world of plastic bottles
Gretha Oost has adopted an unusual approach to raise capital. The Melbourne mum, designer and Pitch Club contestant has decided to trial a ‘crowdfunding’ approach to launch her award winning product 321 Water.
Words don’t do this mobile technology justice. Just watch.
Imagine that you are walking down the street with your mobile phone in hand and you’d like to know what is going on in your neck of the woods. You can now hold up your phone and, using your mobile phone’s camera, see “tags” overlaid onto whatever you’re looking at. For example, you might observe a “Two for one coffer offer – Joe’s Coffee.” Or “Art Gallery Opening Today.”
Skye Blackburn, 2009 Anthill 30under30 winner
Girls are not known for having a harmonious connection with bugs. However, for Skye Blackburn, insects have been an obsession since childhood. She even built a butterfly release and insect education business, Butterfly Skye, around this passion.
Read the most important books of the year in less than 30 seconds each
“Book Rapper was born out of the idea of earning money from doing the things that I love. I love reading books so I asked myself, how can I get paid to read books? I knew I didn’t just want to do reviews because I think what a book is about is almost like the booby prize. I want to know what the big ideas are but more importantly I want to know how to apply them.”
Business expenditure on R&D has jumped by 15 per cent
Business expenditure on research and development (BERD) has jumped by 15 per cent, reaching $14,380 million in 2007-08, according to statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Friday.
Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you
Golan Levin is an artist and an engineer. In this presentation from TED (the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference), he shares some of the conflicts that his two ‘callings’ have created and the wondrous innovations they have helped him create.
New website aims to make engineering sexy for students
The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering at the University of Sydney used the occasion of Engineering Week to launch www.engineeringicons.org.au. The site is designed to encourage more high school students to see engineering as an interesting and viable career path.
Remembrance of things past (a video to make you fear the future)
A dark animated short film set in the future where a major corporation has developed software that stores all the lost memories of humankind. We’re looking for something here… Something real.
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