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What Sir Tim Berners-Lee said to me

I don’t know what Sir Tim Berners-Lee said to everyone else but what he said to me at a talk at the IEE last night was..

Posted 21 September 2007 † Stuart § IT § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Submit to the NHS National Innovations Centre

If you have an invention/innovation which could benefit the NHS there’s a good website where you can submit your ideas to the NHS National Innovation Centre: “The NIC helps speed up healthcare technological innovations that give patients the greatest benefit. If you have an innovation you would like to develop, please tell us about it.” [...]

Posted 25 June 2007 † Stuart § Health § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Challenge Gringo!

I have a nice idea for a site which plugs into the cheeky, user-centric, ‘jackass’, travel-orientated culture. With a cool strong ethical side to it, and seriously sponsoring fun globally, with web 2.0 features such as ‘degrees of separation’ and rating individuals’ activity..

Posted 19 June 2007 † Stuart § Comedy § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Tips for success;-)

Employers look for people who dare go after a riskier but more potentially rewarding path, who will pull through more often than not. These are what Trump calls Big Thinkers..

Posted 09 August 2006 † Stuart § Brain teasers § Comedy § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

And now Microsoft

Well just as I’m busy working on a brief for my cousin James on the shift handover idea I see at the other end of the innovation specturm Microsoft has recently acquired Azyxxi. And as Bill Crounse, Healthcare Industry Director at MS posts in his ’Health blog on 10′ on 26 July: “The Azyxxi solution came about, as most good [...]

Posted 28 July 2006 † Stuart § Health § Main Page § Social software ‡ Comments (0) °

What the URL is that?/2

Read through the City University literature on shift handover applications, and then by luck came across a social software company which already produces blog software for shift handover! Nice coincidence. I know this is an unusual way to investigate product viability but I’ll just follow it a little further I guess:
“OPERATIONS LOG Operations [...]

Posted 05 June 2006 † Stuart § Coincidences § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

What the URL is that?

Oh yes, see my blog about applying social software to hospital shift handover devices (my one and only social software invention if you like) on the Headshift blog on ‘Usability in the wild’.
PS: Just loved the pun of the title, that’s all!

Posted 01 June 2006 † Stuart § Main Page § Social software ‡ Comments (0) °

Why 4 parents are better than 2

A few ideas from futurist Peter Cochrane. Don

Posted 03 April 2006 † Stuart § Brain teasers § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

1001 inventions = 1002 coincidences

Great English to Arabic word game on the 1001 Muslim inventions website which generates associated pics and links (Flickr/Amazon/Wikipedia/Google) which are randomly updated..

Posted 13 March 2006 † Stuart § Coincidences § Complexity § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

I love a good simple solution

I love a good simple solution which costs no money and works brilliantly. My latest invention pictured below is a plastic box courtesy of ASDA..

Posted 07 December 2005 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °