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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.

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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.
Commission want your ideas » Sport » This Is Guernsey
Commission want your ideas. Bruce Wallace ISLANDERS are invited to come forward with their nominations for this year's Guernsey Sports Commission 'Sporting Achievement Awards' night. The 2009 awards will be presented on Wednesday 20 ...
Ideas for Cities: Talent Districts | GOOD
Talent Districts Cities could convert some neighborhoods into learning districts for personal, professional, and entrepreneurial development. They could.
Mom's Memories: Ideas
I need some ideas, folks. The past two years we've sent out photo cards for Christmas, and we try to do something a little quirky. Not crazy-off-the-wall-quirky, but just a little different than a traditional family portrait. ...
Brilliant Ideas Inspired by Mundane Tasks - Neatorama
One morning, Hoerni was taking a shower when he noticed the way the water flowed over his hands, and it gave him an idea. If the transistors could be coated in the right substance, then dust and moisture would just flow right over them. ...

Flickr Ideas 

Superdooper Jermsak by Phil's World Travel

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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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Reader Tools

Amazon Kindle, free texts, self-publishing tools

Amazon Kindle Demo 

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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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Dave's Tagfoot Stream 

Social bookmarks and media links

Tagfoot is a revenue-sharing bookmark service and social network. It allows you to share videos, photos, news, blurbs, products, links, and more.

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Community Feedback 

Say hello, share your own ideas and give us your opinions. Let us now what type of resources you would like to see more of and what you find most useful. Leave your recommendations for related tools and similar projects.

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    JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Oct 24, 2009 @ 9:14 am
    Wow! My dear, this is quite an amazing resource -- don't know why it has taken me far too long to find your lens. Well done.
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    Jack_Bergstrand Jack_Bergstrand Aug 13, 2009 @ 10:10 pm
    Great lens! You've amassed a wealth of information and resources here. I'd love for you to visit my lens and say hello when you get the chance.
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    DavidHolmes DavidHolmes Jul 5, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
    @switch: I've changed the link as requested, thanks for the update.
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    switch switch Jul 5, 2009 @ 2:13 pm
    hi David, thanks for the mention of my blog in your lens - under Free Ebooks and Text Publishing Resources (#7 link)
    you've named it 'free kindle books and free ebooks online'.
    could you please chang the the url to reflect the new site address i.e. http://ireaderreview.com/2008/01/19/free-books-for-the-amazon-kindle/

    it would really help with search engines.
    thanks
    abhi
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    Marelisa Marelisa Jun 9, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
    Lots of interesting stuff here, thank you.
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