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Bright Ideas Brilliant Minds

A lens for sharing creativity resources, educational materials, and productivity tools. Providing insight on how ideas, imagination and creative thinking transform the world we live in.

Discover hundreds of cool sites for inventions and innovations that make life a little better. The resources are particularly suited to vocations involving Design, Technology, Education, Media, Philanthropy, Research and Development.

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Videos: The Big Picture Show 

A feature video spot for interesting ideas and global insights.

Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools k...

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Mary Roach: 10 things you didn...

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Brilliant Books for Bright Ideas 

Books to stimulate your creative juices and enhance productivity.

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

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Web Tools & Services

shared resources

Gadgets Bank 

Cast your votes for the coolest gadgets on Amazon. Share favorite products and learn more about this widget at the Gadgetzon lens.

Nintendo Wii

Nintendo Wii

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Apple TV

Apple TV

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SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB MP3 Player

SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB MP3 Player

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Archos 705 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (160 GB)

Archos 705 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (160 GB)

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Cube World Series 1: Slim & Scoop

Cube World Series 1: Slim & Scoop

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Idea Streams

innovations, lifehacks, products

Ideas in the Blogosphere 

Tracking blog conversations about creative ideas.
How Could New Ideas Change Education
I had no idea what Kenny would share with me. A visit with him is serendipitous as Kenny is MTVN's ?cool hunter? guy. He fixes weird things. He finds new models. So, what was on Kenny's mind? ...
Ideas for Cities: Edible Schoolyard | GOOD
Edible Schoolyard Cities should provide service opportunities and training for all ages to instill confidence, self-reliance, and pride. One of these programs.
FDL Action » Really, Peter Orszag!?! Your Critics Have No Ideas ...
These ideas are not radical or untested. All of them (except the exclusionary period for biosimilars) are being used in this country and/or other countries to reduce cost. These are all proven cost control solutions. ...
Creating Online Business Ideas | Knowledge Base eDynamo
Within this article today on creating online business ideas, we will be giving you a few different websites to get yourself thinking. When you are thinking.

Flickr Ideas 

Teacher's Mailbox ~ left side  ~ 2 of 4 photos by urbanwoodswalker

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Teacher's Mailbox ~ back view  ~ 1 of 4 photos by urbanwoodswalker

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Ubuntu Brainstorm: Dashboard: 4 of 5: Ideas I demoted / 2009-11-17 / SML Screenshots by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

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Ubuntu Brainstorm: Dashboard: 3 of 5: Ideas I promoted / 2009-11-17 / SML Screenshots by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

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Ubuntu Brainstorm: Dashboard: 5 of 5: Ideas I commented / 2009-11-17 / SML Screenshots by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

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Ubuntu Brainstorm: Dashboard: 2 of 5: My solutions / 2009-11-17 / SML Screenshots by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

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Superdooper Jermsak by Phil's World Travel

Superdooper Jermsak

Asilomar Ideas Camp-5126 by qtschlepper

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Videos: How things are made 

Interesting videos showing how things are made and the special production processes involved. The study of manufacturing companies will help you to grasp the importance of process in other areas of thinking.
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How It's Made - BACON

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How It's Made - Flute

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How it's made Lithium Ion batt...

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how its made - trombones

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How It's Made - Solar Panels

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How It's Made: Marbles

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How It's Made - Hot Dogs

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How it's made-Mason &Hamlin pi...

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Reader Tools

Amazon Kindle, free texts, self-publishing tools

Amazon Kindle Demo 

The Amazon Kindle

This is the introductory video that provides a demonstration of the new Amazon Kindle eBook reader.

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Free E-Books & Text Publishing Tools 

Download books or publish your own works

All about electronic books and where to find them.

YouPublish - Allows you to share and sell your own creative works online. Discover new and free creative works.

100 Awesome Search Engines for Bibliophiles Useful resources for book lovers.

100+ Sources for Free-As-In-Beer Books & Texts Online

A Beginners Guide to Ebooks

E-book Reader Matrix - Comparison table of current e-book readers.

Free eBooks Blog

Free Kindle Books and Free EBooks Online

Wikipedia: E-book - General information and useful links.

LaterLoop + Kindle = Awesome - A handy way to save and read web texts on your Kindle reader.

Amazon Kindle - Amazon's innovative wireless reading device and accessories.

Creative Commons News 

The latest Free Culture news, tools and copyright announcements from the Creative Commons weblog.

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by DavidHolmes

David Holmes is a blogger and digital curator focusing on Internet Music, Open Content and Social Media.

Former freelance audio engineer, recording s... (more)

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