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Entrepreneurs can change the world

At its best, entrepreneurship captures the essence of childhood imagination and adult endeavour. This slick video, written and produced by Sonja Jacob and designed...

Green Box: Pizza box turns into plates and storage unit

Saving the planet one pizza at a time... sort of. Green Box is manufactured from 100 percent recycled material and can be easily broken down...

Australia's Master Innovators speak their minds

Last week, we posted the first in a series of video excerpts from a panel discussion at the 2009 Anthill Smart 100 Awards, held in April at Digital Harbour in Melbourne's docklands. We received lots of positive feedback about Liesl Capper's insights on innovation and commercialisation in Australia, but it turns out you are an impatient bunch. So here we're posting the introductory insights of all five members of our master innovator panel - Ryan Trainor, Campbell Rose, Janine Kirk, Liesl Capper and Tim Pethick. We'll post part two – a more free form discussion – next week.

Australia’s Master Innovators speak their minds

Last week, we posted the first in a series of video excerpts from a panel discussion at the 2009 Anthill Smart 100 Awards, held in April at Digital Harbour in Melbourne's docklands. We received lots of positive feedback about Liesl Capper's insights on innovation and commercialisation in Australia, but it turns out you are an impatient bunch. So here we're posting the introductory insights of all five members of our master innovator panel - Ryan Trainor, Campbell Rose, Janine Kirk, Liesl Capper and Tim Pethick. We'll post part two – a more free form discussion – next week.

Through the gloom, progress: 200 years that changed the world

This interesting Gapminder visualisation illustrates how far the various nations of the world have come (in terms of prosperity and life expectancy) over the past 200 years. Presented by Swedish professor Hans Rosling (top left inset), it traces the rise of the West (Australia and New Zealand have fared particularly well) and the emergence of China, India and the developing world.

Fetish and bondage wear business thrives against the odds in Pakistan

From the 'indomitable spirit of entrepreneurship' file comes this curious video report by the New York Times about two lower-class Pakistani brothers who defy threats from conservative local Islamists and manufacture fetish and bondage wear for Western customers, earning more than US$1 million a year.

Liesl Capper on What (and Who) Drives Innovation in Australia

A highlight of the 2009 Smart 100 Awards was a panel discussion focused on What and Who Drives Innovation in Australia. In this video excerpt, Liesl Capper, founder of MyCyberTwin.com, shares her thoughts on the current market, investors and customers.

Smart 100 Awards Cocktails 2009 (The Video)

In April 2009, the winners of Anthill's inaugural Smart 100 assembled at Digital Harbour in Docklands, Victoria. Nominate for 2010. Smart 100 Awards Cocktails 2009...

The 8 things that lead to success

After seven years and 500 interviews, analyst Richard St. John isolated the eight things that lead to success. In this video, he shares them in three minutes.

Basejumpers use wingsuits to fly – just amazing

These basejumpers grew board of just jumping off cliffs, falling for a bit then popping a shoot. So they built sugar-glider wing suits and began to fly. That wasn't quite doing it for them, so they went to Norway and began flying close - really close - to cliffs and rocks... even roads.

Assisted-walking with Honda’s new ‘Robolegs’

The global economic crisis might have ravaged the once mighty Japanese auto industry, but it's good to see that Honda continues to flex its...

Assisted-walking with Honda's new 'Robolegs'

The global economic crisis might have ravaged the once mighty Japanese auto industry, but it's good to see that Honda continues to flex its...

Learning from failure

I've been watching a lot of great video lectures on entrepreneurship lately. Gorging myself, really. After all, this was a resource that was difficult...

Talent = 10,000 Hours + Luck

In a world obsessed with talent, could it be that there is actually no such thing - luck and lots of hard work?

Tired of Twitter? Time to Flutter.

Twitter is all the rage at the moment, so it was only a matter of time until someone created the next evolutionary spoof. Presenting... Flutter.

Apple dispenses with Macbook keyboard

A recent ONN story broke news that Apple was replacing keyboards on its popular Macbook range a big iPod-like scroll wheel. (video embedded below).

Academic Earth: The best information is now free

Want to improve your knowledge or skills, but can't afford the time or exorbitant cost of tuition to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton or Berkeley? Now you can watch some of the best educational lectures in the world from the comfort of your armchair thanks to Academic Earth.

Witty animation about the end of the earth

This video put a smile on my face. It's a witty motion-capture animation outlining... how to destroy the world with nanotechnology.

Clay Shirky speaks his mind at CeBIT (Germany)

Authentic Anthillian Mark Kofahl spent plenty of time in the Webciety area of CeBIT in Hanover, Germany earlier this month. He's leading the charge...

The history of the internet visualised

A couple of weeks ago we posted a great video visualisation explaining the complex origins of the current credit crisis. It was so well received, we thought we'd post another interesting visualisation video. This one explains the history of the internet.
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New Zealand’s Xero eyes US IPO, further disruption as subscribers increase...

Xero recently held its annual meeting in Wellington, during which the company revealed some interesting details about its future. As has been widely suspected, the...

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