Topic: Austria

Global and Local Market Trends

When people talk about the latest market trends with regards to multimedia, they often speak in terms of global or macro usage. READ»

The Cliff Hanger and Three Other Radical Hotel Ideas

From a resort hanging from the side of a cliff, to one that rolls on rails, the Radical Innovation in Hospitality Awards aim to change your idea of what a hotel is all about.READ»

The World's Scariest Architecture

For pure architectural drama, the recently built Top of Tyrol observation deck in Austria is difficult to beat. Some 10,400 feet high, the deck cantilevers 30 feet over the edge of a mountain, providing a 360-degree view of 109 ...READ»

The Self-Prescribing Media Doctor #6

Free speech may have the word "free" in it, but its upto me to figure out what "free" really means.  Free to me means both having the freedom to change ones own thoughts and while it's instructive to listen to the freedom message ...READ»

Skiing Green

In the ski resort business, everything depends on white snow. But with the impending global climate change, ski resorts are going green, cleaning the air and offering better views of mountain landscapes.READ»

Six Moving, Blinking, Jaw-Dropping Building Facades [video]

Building facades covered in rippling waves or funky light shows are rapidly moving our cityscapes into the Blade Runner era--but without as much advertising (yet). This is a selection of the undulating buildings we've spied ...READ»

A Structural Approach to Chaos

Most business people are all too familiar with the not-so-humble spreadsheet - which actually turns 25 years old this year. Perhaps we should be using other, more suitable tools for budgeting, financial predictions, and sales ...READ»

Art and Commerce Meet on Buildings' Interactive Media Facades

The main strips of Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and Times Square are on the cutting-edge of illuminated media façades--emblazoned with hyper-animated, neon advertising. But there's a parallel movement to harness the technology for ...READ»

Working Hard? Hardly Working

The current issue of National Geographic Magazine features an interesting one-page piece entitled "A Work-Weary World." The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development tracked the annual hours worked around the world in ...READ»

Zaha Hadid's Faucet Turns Us On

Can’t afford a Zaha Hadid Aqua Table from Established and Sons? Then how about something similarly swoopy and a little more modestly priced? Just in time for spring kitchen remodeling projects, the Pritzker Award-winning architect ...READ»

My Favorite Bookmarks - Tiffany Shlain

Picks from the executive producer of the Webby Awards.READ»

WEB-EXCLUSIVE: The Secret History of Interpol

How the 79-year-old international police organization survived a false start, Nazis occupation, a meager budget, and a terrorist attack and became a round-the-clock crime-fighter.READ»

Graz Music Students to Get a Stunning New Hall That Was Built For, Well, You Guessed It, Music

Steve Martin once quipped that talking about music is like dancing about architecture. But it makes a certain sense that architecture can express music pretty well. That's what Ben Van Berkel, of UNStudio, was going for in his ...READ»

Preview: Architecture of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai

The grand tradition of World Expos may seem a little quaint to Americans--evoking 1950s era images of flying cars and robot butlers. But the Expos still live, and the upcoming Expo 2010 in Shanghai, promises to be worthwhile since ...READ»

Warner, 7digital Spread the Music

In a sign that the major labels are finally beginning to embrace digital music worldwide, U.K.-based digital music provider 7digital announced a pan-European licensing agreement with Warner Music to sell their MP3s, nearly completing ...READ»

Retail Therapy

Take a trip to the small town of Rheinberg in Germany. It's home to a 4,000-square-meter supermarket created by Metro, the world's fifth largest retailer. If you believe the hype, you are looking at the future of supermarket ...READ»

Here's Some Good Airplane Reading

The next time you need something to read on the plane, don't buy a magazine - unless, of course, it's Fast Company. Instead, pick up the new book by work-and-technology guru June Langhoff.READ»

Intercell’s Needle-Free Vaccines

Vaccines may soon be a lot less painful. A needle-free vaccination method is being developed by Intercell USA with help from design giant Ideo.READ»

• BMW Gina: Shape-Shifting Car

100 Most Creative People in Business: #25 - Dietrich Mateschitz

Last year, Dietrich Mateschitz's Austria-based company sold 4 billion cans (more than its next three energy-drink competitors combined), reportedly spent more than $300 million on marketing, and pushed the category beyond $30 billion. ...READ»

The Future of Money

Like predictions about the paperless office, forecasts about a cashless society have been around for a while. For example, AC Nielsen research says that only 10% of transactions in the US will be cash by the year 2020. Logically this ...READ»

Grassroots Leadership - Royal Dutch/Shell

Steve Miller of Royal Dutch/Shell offers a powerful model of what leadership means -- a recognition that commitment and creativity come from all parts and all levels of an organization.READ»

How to Be Your Own Futurist

Advice from Watts Wacker on how to stay ahead of the curve.READ»

It's Official: Android Market Now Open For Paid Apps

Now that the Android Market has officially openend up to accept paid apps from both U.S. and U.K. developers, the race is on to see which developer can finally knock The Weather Channel out of its #1 spot. Since its launch on October ...READ»

Bite-Sized Innovations

Albert Einstein said that "if at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." In this vein, here's a list of some of my favourite ideas and innovations from the past 18 months, together with a few comments and ...READ»

Get Laziness on Your Side

How to sway people's decisions with the gentlest of nudges.READ»

• Judge the Nudge