Earth’s Universe

Posted on August 27th, 2007 in Next Gen Tech, Innovation by Puneet Sarda

Jonathan Harris has done some pretty innovative stuff. He was the person behind Yahoo Timecapsule, he did the “We feel fine” project in collaboration with Lovelines and how he’s done Universe. I was watching his video on TED when I found about his Universe project.

It’s a beautiful idea to present all the things happening around in the world as a huge universe of information and then give the user control over how they want to explore it. And the best part being that the representation is not the usual web interface we are all used to but a good inspiration of how the universe looks to us from earth. Check out his talk below and make sure you visit the universe website.


Solar Powered Billboard

Posted on July 13th, 2007 in Design, Innovation by Puneet Sarda

Came across this post on Trendhunter about a solar powered billboard. Quoting from their site

South Africa’s NEDBank won a Cannes Lions 2007 Grand Prix Award in outdoor advertising for what is believed to be the world’s first solar-powered billboard. The topper? This revolutionary billboard uses the power it generates to power the kitchen of a local school - helping prepare food for 1100 kids.

Now that’s a bank that truly gives “power to the people” - and that’s a billboard that not just is the world’s first solar-powered billboard, but a solar empowerment tool!

Brilliant as the African sun!

Check out the video below



I found a true example of an innovative solutions. We have 1000’s and 1000’s of billboards all around us and all they do is stand on the ground day and night. Yet it has taken so many years to come up with this idea to put solar panels on them to generate electricity even though the solution (now that you think about it) was right in our face all the time. 2 Thumb’s up to NEDBank for doing such a humane act