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Harold M. Ickes was midway through a typical profanity-laced cell-phone call on the inch-by-inch battle for the Democratic presidential nomination recently, when he peered over his glasses and demanded, "This call is off the record...
...Even inside Hillaryland, Ickes is something of a rebel. One part of that is simply his years: at 68, he is twice (and in a few cases, three times) the age of his colleagues. He is allergic to e-mail and loads his pockets down each morning with extra cell-phone batteries to keep up with the pace of modern campaign communications. In a suite of offices where black is de rigueur for women as well as men, Ickes is a somewhat diverting figure who favors a colorful Carnaby Street fashion sense--purple dress shirts and floral ties...
That kind of response is generating more and more heat in the emerging field of transformation design--a hybrid of business consulting and industrial design. Firms like Humantific, whose founders are designers, apply the same process used in designing sleek MP3 players and ergonomic teakettles to unwieldy intangibles like cell-phone promotions and hospital organization, transforming their effectiveness. Along the way, the field is creating some unusual teamwork between designers and business people...
...musician to really change things.” Yes, Koh is not your average cello prodigy. On top of maintaining an international career and earning degrees from both Harvard and the New England Conservatory, he is also a pre-med student and a researcher in the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Koh thinks that the tissue images he looks at in his work are “beautiful.” To him, they’re not separate from his art. “When I play, I need to express the artist’s life experiences...
Leslie Presutti, director of product management at Qualcomm, which sells the GPS chips that go into more than 100 million cell phones each year, says enabling two-way connectivity on GPS devices is the logical next step. As for why device makers don't offer it yet, even though the technology has long existed to do so, she says, "They never really had to compete in this space, so there wasn't the need." But as prices come down (on April 23, TomTom reported that its average product price had fallen 42% over the past year to $185 per unit...