Choosing the right open innovation process
Companies and organisations looking to engage with digital innovation have a number of tools available to them in order to reach outside their...
Winner announced for the Dare to Solve: Roadworks contest
We are pleased to announce the winner of our Dare to Solve: Roadworks Contest in partnership with Staffordshire County Council, Amey and Elgin,...
Explaining Open Innovation
What is Open Innovation? Open innovation is simply put the act of looking outside internal research and development departments. It is used to...
An intro to user experience
General Assembly have been running a week of free lunchtime classes to celebrate the launch of their new Aldgate East campus, I dropped in to the...
Digital Innovation on a local level
Creating an open innovation powered digital ecosystem for a geographic region. The need for a digital ecosystem The rise of open data and...
A review of London Tech Week
It was a fabulous week for me, with loads of interesting contributions across the industry. We had an excellent array of legal firms vying for...
Hate sitting in traffic jams caused by roadworks? I Dare you To Solve it, with your digital innovation! Dare to Solve: Roadworks - £10,000 contest...
Growth vs Dominion
I was fortunate enough to hear the American Ambassador to the UK, Matthew Barzun speak the day after the Orlando shooting – coincidentally at a...
10 Wearable tech predictions for 2016
The Apple Watch will be success In 2015 it became hard to leave the house without being buried under a wave of claims and counterclaims about the...
Swipe right for organ donation (in a good way) on Tinder
With Christmas just around the corner it’s nice of Tinder to show that it’s not just about questionable hook ups: the company is partnering with the...
Mashmallow Instagram is big business
How much could a bunch of Instagram pics printed on marshmallows be worth? Well, how about £10m? For such is the value of “multi-sensory...
Google sucks (your blood)
Google, not content with slurping all your personal details, now wants to suck your blood. Well, kind of. And in a nice way: the company has filed a...
Will it be a very Apple Watch Christmas?
It’s hard to overstate the importance of the Apple Watch to the world of wearable tech. It may not have been the first smartwatch on the market -...
GreenWood – for theme park thrills without environmental spills
Want to enjoy some serious roller-coaster action without worrying about your environmental footprint? Then North Wales has just the place for you:...
Why should children have all the fun? Joy For All Pets are robot cats for the elderly
Robotic pets are nothing particularly new. But until now they’ve generally been rather crude, unimpressive things, designed for children and the...
Peterborough’s award shows UK is well placed in Smart City push
What do London, Glasgow and Peterborough have in common? Not so much, you might think: London and Glasgow are massive urban powerhouses, vastly...
A button to order pizza is the lazy man’s dream
Pressing a button to order pizza to your home might sounds like a dream. But now it is a happy reality, thanks to Domino’s - at least if you live in...
Weather changing wearables can banish that rainy feeling
Britain’s changeable weather has long been a cause for concern among fashionistas, who are forced to weigh up whether they can get away with their...
Sore head? Upset tum? Time to call Uber
One of the most difficult things about being ill is trying to get to the doctor. You know you should, of course, but your head hurts, you’re...
Get hit in Virtual Reality thanks to impacto
Getting punched is no fun. But if, for some strange reason, you want to experience more of it, then your luck is in: the Human-Computer Interaction...
LED skin implants really light up your look
If you’re starting to think that tattoos are a bit tame now that everyone has got one, maybe we can interest you in the latest trend: implanting LED...