Sentiment building. "We're now at the stage where we should be getting the next wave of disruptive surprises. But – guess what? – they're nowhere to be seen. Instead, we're getting an endless stream of incremental changes and me-tooism. If I see one more proposal for a photo-sharing or location-based web service, anything with "app" in it, or anything that invites me to "rate" something, I'll scream."

"A slow savings account would work exactly like a regular account -- I could pay money into it, and transfer money out. The difference would be: when I pay money in to a slow savings account, it appears in the available balance exactly one year later." I want one of these.

"Send in your child's drawing - one that they drew and coloured and Child's Own Studio will handcraft a unique stuffed toy, to be cherished for a lifetime." Nice idea.

Wondering why I didn't save this in 2008. Keep referring to it.

"Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests."

Rather nice.

"Proximity is a location-based alarm that allows you to set *where* you want to wake up, as opposed to *when*." Close, but would like to see something a little more general that could trigger a range of actions depending on location.

Much more beyond this quote... "When you actually need to travel, your personal devices will keep you on track. For example something the “JITwatch“, or that iPhone app that triggers an alarm when GPS indicates you’re within a particular distance from your destination."... but everything has been done already.

"The best way to come up with startup ideas is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish someone would make for you?"

"How about you make something that would take away that hassle, but still let us send postcards to the people we love - printed objects that would arrive through the letterbox and make those people smile? Hmm?" Please do this, Royal Mail. Or someone else?

At no. 1, "Max Tundra’s Limited Edition Kosher Chicken Soup". Ah, Ben.

"Is there potential for buildings to be less good at keeping us warm, or cool, or dry than they are now? You know, for environmental reasons."

"A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers..."

"They don't seem to be precious about ideas. They don't cherish them, regard them as valuable or hard to have. They have lots and lots of them and then prune, recombine and mutate. He talked about this as 'excess and selection'. You have an excess of ideas and then pick the ones that seem to fit the problem. (And you keep them all, because they might come in handy next time.)"

"A collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for. They are used to make a number of different methods accessible to all members of a design team, to explain how and when the methods are best used, and to demonstrate how they have been applied to real design projects."

Clever clever. Nice detail.

"Music's metadata could once be ignored. The way we valued music in the 1980s and the 1990s is part of a world that no longer exists: when music's economic value has to be reassessed, the way we reassess the music as a whole changes as well. The way we value music might be increasingly moving to metadata."

Brilliant. Wish I'd seen this.

"Who says big ideas are rare?"

"Interesting2007 was a conference that happened on the 15th June at the Conway Hall, London. This site isn't so much an archive of the event as a collation of the traces and remains it's left scattered over the internet."

"Have an efficient filing system for your rejected work, because a lot of briefs come up time and time again (this product is simple to use, this product is inexpensive, or in the case of Cadbury's - this product will make you happy)."

"Nothing can substitute for depth of analysis, and there's proven value in specialization – it's what education, career paths, scientific research, and technological innovation are built on – but generalism is a secret talent."

"Just forward your travel confirmation emails to: plans@tripit.com." Clever clever.

"Idea generation is an addiction... an engaging, brain-spinning indulgence that must be practiced in moderation."

"I find that certain mental states are good for certain tasks. No caffeine is good for doing my taxes, running and washing up. Walking with no music and being in the shower is good for insights into problems."

Crowdsourcing ideas, business, opinions & more...

"Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas?"

"Creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread. "