Ben Cooper

Group Innovation Director M&C Saatchi Sydney. Co-Creator O Six Hundred Kayak. Proud father. Loving husband. British.

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We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion

Published June 2, 2006

The interface of WeFeelFine.org has some subtle references to the Sony Ad with the balls, but thankfully is nothing to do with it. In fact maybe I shouldn’t of even said that… but it

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I/O Brush: Photographic paintbrush that paints with movement and colour

Published March 14, 2006

I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has

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Specialized prototype prank…

Published January 24, 2006

Gutted. On a search for “cool bikes”, sad search query I know – I unveiled this article on the Venom Line Being Developed by Specialized. For a minute, I thought I’d discovered the future

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Bobcasting, a world first?

Published January 19, 2006

My good friend Dave, of Digital Eskimo, has enabled Senator Bob Brown of the Greens to podcast via a mobile phone. The Eskimo’s did this sometime ago and I really wonder why its taken

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VoIP Watch: Skypecasting

Published December 16, 2005

That means someone in London could in effect Skypecast English Premiere League Football to an ex-pat in the USA. Vice versa someone here in the USA could Skypecast NBA basketball, which has rights deals

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Social software – Tokyo style

Published December 13, 2005

Yugo Nakamura latest project has been created for Tokyo FM, its called Honda Sweet Mission – Global Research Show. The site enables blogging, podcasting, tagging and other social software tools – to connect Tokyo

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Synesthetic Cookbook

Published December 13, 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

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Top 10 weirdest USB devices

Published December 12, 2005

Thanks to Hendo for another fine link, what wonders these little devices are. Check out the top 10 weirdest USB devices ever

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How does Ideo do it?

Published December 8, 2005

“The secret, it turns out, reduces to one of those touchy-feely terms that make MBAs squirm: “empathy.” In the Ideo universe, great design doesn’t begin with a far-out concept or a way-cool drawing. It

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IDEO :: The Ten Faces of Innovation

Published December 8, 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

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