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Synesthetic Cookbook

Posted in books, innovation, whatever on Dec 13th, 2005

Can’t figure out what to have for dinner? Hugo Liu, a graduate student at M.I.T.’s Media Lab, has developed a “smart” cookbook that can recommend a dish on the basis of some of the tastes and emotions commonly associated with it.
Synesthetic Recipes, a searchable computer database of 60,000 recipes, can’t actually read your mind, [...]

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IDEO :: The Ten Faces of Innovation

Posted in books, design, innovation, whatever on Dec 8th, 2005

Tom Kelley is the General Manager of design & innovation agency Ideo. His book The Ten Faces of Innovation looks interesting (i haven’t read it).
Over the years, Tom has observed a number of roles that people can play in an organization to foster innovation and new ideas while offering an effective counter to naysayers. [...]

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