Nominate Now!
We invite you to submit your new product or service innovation for recognition with a 2013 Edison Award.
The Call for Nominations for the 2013 Edison Awards is now open. Since 1987, the Edison Awards have honored some of the most innovative new products and services in the marketplace.
Being recognized with an Edison Award is an excellent opportunity to shine the light on your company's innovation and capture the media attention that it deserves. The prestige of an Edison Award can open up a wide variety of new opportunities to tell the story of your innovation, boost your marketing and sales success and acknowledge the work of your development team.
Visit our website to learn about the benefits of winning an Edison Award, and find out how you can nominate your new product or service. |
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Giving Back
When you submit a nomination for an Edison Award, you are contributing to the cause and purpose of innovation in the world. A percentage of every nomination fee is a tax-deductible contribution to Edison Universe, our new 501(c)(3) organization that is dedicated to fostering future innovators at the K-12 and community college levels.
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Did You Know?
New Interactive Quiz
Want to learn some fun facts about our Edison Award winning innovations? Visit our website to find out more with our interactive quizzes. Visit often for new content. |
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Brought to you by NASA:
Ten Everyday Products
When a new mother uses an ear thermometer to check her child's temperature, she probably doesn't  give much thought to who invented the device. Nor are you likely to ask the orthodontist who it was that designed the invisible braces that you've decided to invest in to improve your smile.
Yet there are many such everyday objects that we similarly take for granted that share an unlikely provenance: NASA. It's a little known fact that when NASA was formed in 1958 that the agency's work should not only involve space exploration, but that it should also benefit all people.
Read more at Discovery |
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Companies Stifle Ideas
Leaders Must Rehumanize Work
Proposing ideas makes people feel vulnerable -- in companies where the culture doesn't recognize that vulnerability and address it, creativity can be stifled before it can even take hold.
 In an article for Fast Company last week, Brene Brown wrote, "Shame--the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging--breeds fear. It crushes our tolerance for vulnerability, thereby killing engagement, innovation, creativity, productivity, and trust. And worst of all, if we don't know what we're looking for, shame can ravage our organizations before we see one outward sign of a problem."
Read more at Fast Company |
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Edison's in Good Company
In 1879, Thomas Edison finally figured out how to make an incandescent light bulb that people would buy. However, it was another 40 years before the  invention contributed to a stable, profitable business for the utilities. And even then, it was only after the utilities came up with other reasons why electricity was needed.
In a recent New York Times Magazine, "32 Inventions that Will Change Your Life," concepts such as electric clothes, synthetic alcohol (no more hangovers!) and analytical undies are examined for their potential success and rated in terms of years-to-market.
Read more at New York Times |
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Bill Moggridge
1943-2012
Just after he had presciently opened a product design business in Silicon V alley in 1979, William Moggridge was hired by a startup firm, Grid Systems, to design a new type of computer -- one that could fit into a briefcase.Moggridge, who died on September 8th at 69, was not only the designer of that first laptop; he is also widely viewed as a father of the field of interaction design, a discipline that focuses on improving the human experience of digital products. He advanced this field through IDEO, the influential product design firm he co-founded, and, most recently, as director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. At IDEO, Mr. Moggridge also began writing and teaching to advocate the importance of humane design in everyday life, and broadening the services if would provide. |
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