Innovation Blog

Well it seems that it wasn't all in your head. Researchers at the University of North Carolina have found that a hug from your significant other can reduce blood pressure and cut the risk of heart attacks. This is especially true for women. So the effect of human interaction is much stronger than anyone ever thought. So how you enhance those contacts to improve people's life experience?

You know how it goes. You are dining out with your special someone and you have an amazing bottle of wine. No paper, no pencil but you want to remember the winery and vintage for the future. What to do? Well wip out your flexible scanner and scan the label of course. Don't have a flexible scanner? Never seen one? Well it turns out that researchers at the Univeristy of Tokyo have developed a flexible scanner made up of a polymer matrix containing thousands of photodiodes. You say that you can think of thousands of better ideas for using this concept than scanning a wine bottle label? Well so can I, so let's talk. By the way this same team is working on a artificial skin for robots that can sense touch and temperature. So how can you use new sensor technologies to make your products better?

Well apparently a lot. Richard Ecob, a graduate student at Oxford University has studied human couples and applied the concepts of physics to describe this relationships. It is amazing how well it applies. So have you tried looking at your users and their needs in a new and different light? It might just be enlightening.