ThinkCube Innovation

Companies don't innovate, people do

Introducing ThinkCube: a new tool to help people innovate. It's part game, part methodology, and full of inspiration. Change the way you think about creativity and innovation.


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Hello, My name is Doris Anne Beaulieu and I’d like to this time to talk to mail order companies and parents. To parents I have a wonderful craft book for your child to give his or her teacher at the end of the school year. My Easy and Inexpensive ...
Thanks for the suggestion :-) It looks like an interesting site and concept. I searched to see if there were any suggestions for ThinkCube yet -- none I could find.
Hi John Just Joined the club. Couldn't you have done a "Muhammad Ali". And sung the song too - in between.
Here is a SlideShare Presentation I created on using ThinkCube in Schools: Think Cube Innovation For Schools V3 View more presentations from Kes Sampanthar.
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T-shirt comes with free music downloads

Much the way Webkinz pets are more than just stuffed animals, so t-shirts can be more than just t-shirts when they forge links to the online world. The conversation-starters offered by Reactee, Shyno and Augme are one type of...

Stainless steel lunch containers

Packing a lunch for kids tends to involve a variety of plastic packaging, bags and wrappers that are harmful not just to the environment—heading directly to landfills as they so frequently do—but also, potentially, to the kids themselves. Whereas...

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What is it?

ThinkCube is a complete solution that provides you with all of the tools you need to innovate. It represents the culmination of 10 years of research in creative thinking and synthesizes today's leading creativity tools, techniques, and processes. Whether you use it alone or in a group, ThinkCube trains your brain and lets you exercise your creative muscles.


ThinkCubation


ThinkCube Our unique ThinkCubation process incorporates many conventional brainstorming techniques and frames innovation in a process that is easy to follow and consistently produces results. ThinkCubation turns the critical but normally passive step of incubation into an active process. For detailed instructions or a simple map of the ThinkCubation process, check out the Try It! page.

We recognize that there are as many ways to innovate as there are creative people, and certainly don't expect you to toss away your other creativity tools. But we do believe that ThinkCube will become your favorite!

Beyond Braindstorming at CanUX

Kes and I recently spent a few days in the Canadian Rocky Mountains (Banff, AB) where we interacted with a group of User Experience folks at the 2007 CanUX conference. Here's the presentation we delivered:




ThinkCube Introduction

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Anyone can teach & learn, live online


Connect live anywhere in the world from home to share an interactive synchronized collaborative environment. The Virtual Classroom enables you to communicate using video and audio with a headset or through text chat, and to share whiteboards, presentations, documents and images.


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Doris Anne Beaulieu

Crafts for Children

Hello,
My name is Doris Anne Beaulieu and I’d like to this time to talk to mail order companies and parents.
To parents I have a wonderful craft book for your child to give his or her teacher at the end of the school year. My Easy and Inexpensive Holiday Classroom Crafts for Teachers book is truly a gift that will forever keep giving from year to year, holiday after holiday. It’s a craft book for developing creative minds. This book will tell you what items you will need for each craft along wit… Continue

Posted by Doris Anne Beaulieu on May 16, 2009 at 8:02pm

SHARP BRAINS

Daniel Goleman: Yes, You Can Build Willpower (meditate on neuroplasticity!)

(Editor's note: Daniel Goleman is now conducting a series of audio interviews including a great one with Richard Davidson on Training the Brain. We are honored to bring you this guest post by Daniel Goleman, thanks to our collaboration with Greater Good Magazine.)  --- Yes, You Can: New research suggests we can build our willpower -- By Daniel Goleman Those of [...]

Bird's Eye View of Cognitive Health Innovation

My presentation to open our Games for Health Conference track is now available via SlideShare: See Bird's Eye View of Cognitive Health Innovation Description: Scientific, technological and demographic trends have converged to create a new $265m market in the US alone: serious games, software and online applications that can help people of all ages assess and train cognitive [...]

The Best Memory Tests: Mini-Mental and Beyond (Alzheimer's Action Plan)

(Editor's Note: I recently came across an excellent book and resource, The Alzheimer's Action Plan: The Experts' Guide to the Best Diagnosis and Treatment for Memory Problems, recently released in paperback. Dr. Murali Doraiswamy, one of the authors and leading Alzheimer's expert, kindly helped us create a 2-part article series to share with SharpBrains readers [...]

Free Brain Fitness Webinar

Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg and I, co-authors of The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness, will cover the main highlights from our new book and address the questions submitted by readers. When: Tuesday July 21st, 10am Pacific Time; 1pm Eastern Time. How to Register: Click HERE for more information and to Register. Title: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: 18 Interviews [...]

Kindle version of The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness

Given the fact I love Kindle, and some of our Twitter friends had been asking for a Kindle version of our new book The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness...well, here it is: Amazon.com: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness (Kindle Edition, $9.99) The book has also received two excellent new endorsements: "Kudos for an excellent resource! This SharpBrains [...]

Debunking 10 Brain Training/ Cognitive Health Myths

Think about this: How can anyone take care of his or her brain when every week brings a new barrage of articles and studies which seem to contradict each other? Do supplements improve memory? Do you need both physical and mental exercise –or is one of them enough? Which brain training approach, if any, is worth [...]

Brain Teasers on Brain Training/ Games for Health Conference

Given the whole distracting "controversy" of whether Nintendo Brain Age "works" or not, I have started to use the following "brain teasers" in my talks in order to help the audience gain a more useful perspective of what is going on. They worked great both in the Medicare Readmissions Summit in DC a few weeks [...]

Can You Outsmart Your Genes? An Interview with Author Richard Nisbett

(Editor's Note: interviewing Richard Nisbett, author of the excellent recent book Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count, was in my To Do list. I then found that fellow blogger David DiSalvo was faster than I was and did a great job, so here we bring you David's interview and take). While [...]

Encephalon at Cognitive Daily

Dave hosts a fun iCephalon 2009 Keynote address (AKA Encephalon 72), a collection of the best brain and mind blog posts of the last couple weeks. Enjoy! brain, brain blogs, encephalon, mind

First Book Review is in...Two Stethoscopes Up!

The San Francisco Chronicle brings two great pieces today - including an excellent review of our new Book! Is Your Brain A Couch Potato? (online book review) "At 165 pages, we're talking a short, sweet, entertaining read of a complex topic, with timely (written in 1/09) reviews of 21 top technology products, as well as informed and [...]
 
 

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Fluent in Chinese?

Can you read the Chinatown store signs? If so, how long did it take before you realized you could?! For many, there’ll be that cool moment when your brain suddenly shifts and goes,  “AHA!”

Brain Teaser: The Hidden Candle

How can you place a candle in such a manner that every person in the room shall see it, except one, although he shall not be blindfolded or prevented from examining any part of the room, and the candle shall not be hidden? A bit of lateral thinking is needed for this one-will unmask submitted answers [...]

4th of July Jigsaw Puzzle

Just the kind of package to make any grade school kid drool! (Picture comes courtesy of Phantom Fireworks) Click here to play the jigsaw!

Physics Puzzle Game: Dynamic Systems

Dynamic Systems is a fun game inspired by the Rube Goldberg Machines. Use your logic and skill to get the metal ball into the bucket.  The introductory levels ease you into the game without too much of a challenge. Things get progressively harder, however, as you journey all the way to level 40. Play Dyanmic Systems!

Jigsaw Puzzle: La Belle Dame sans Merci

The English poet John Keats wrote this ballad, and for all you sleuths out there, it is full of strange enigmas to ponder over.   Here, however, we merely have the art in jigsaw puzzle form you can try putting together. Painted by Sir Frank Bernard Dicksee. Play now!

IQ test question: Which figure continues the series?

For this series question, what figure should come next? [answers will be unmasked below in a day!] In the mood to exercise your brain? Here are some more related IQ type test questions: Pinwheel series Difficult series question What comes next? Happy People Matrix question (or just check out the entire Smartkit category!)

An Amazing Sentence!

There is something unique about this sentence- other than being really hard to understand!. Can you figure it out? “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness”. Will give you until Wednesday to decipher it

Jigsaw Puzzle: Indian Shrine

A cool Indian temple-Play Now

Cool but Brainy Game: Use Boxmen

Some new play mechanics in this fun puzzle platformer will very likely have your brain straining at times . From the creator Greg Sergeant:  “If you finish this then buy yourself a pizza, it’s a thinker!” Instructions: Get the box on each level SHIFT to clone yourself Clones COPY what you are doing WHEN you make them ARROW keys to [...]

Another square peg in a round hole

Have you ever seen a vegetable in a teapot? There are no hidden objects here; check out this earlier picture puzzle to see how to solve. This one is challenging. Any answers submitted below will get revealed Monday or Tuesday

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