Author name: Dan Pink

It sounds like something out of a William Gibson novel. A German designer has produced the VanityRing. It’s like a modern day mood ring. But doesn’t measure how you’re feeling. It measures — get this — how many times your name comes up in a Google search. As the creator explains, “Rings are well known

In the Wall Street Journal, David Wessel writes about research showing “strong demand for high-end workers,” increasing demand “for some workers at the low-end of the pay scale,” and “a sagging middle.” What’s going on? In part, the answer is the core argument of AWNM. Routine white-collar work is being shipped overseas and reduced to

Walking through Heathrow Airport not too long ago, I spotted an intriguing business idea: The HairPod. (See photo below.) It’s nifty-looking capsule in which people waiting for planes can get a quick haircut. The capsule is outfitted with all sorts of semi-hidden suctions and vacuums so customers don’t shed on the airport floor or on

Lots of travel this past week limited my blogging. But sitting on airplanes reading newspapers and magazines did yield these five fascinating factoids: — “Today there are some 3 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, and that will grow to 5 billion by 2015, when two-thirds of the people on earth will have phones, predicts Finnish handset

The only entries even half as popular as those featuring a photo of Saul (a.k.a. the male heir to the Pink fortune) are those that list what I’ve been reading. It’s not that my book tastes are exemplary. (Some readers hate my recommendations.) But with the gusher of books pumped out each week, I think

Readers continue to email about emotionally intelligent signage. But one person — Jamie Baker of Memphis, who already contributed a photo — took the extraordinary step of sending me an actual sign. It’s similar to one in the YouTube pecha-kucha presentation and it comes from the same creator, the incredibly talented Dr. Bob. Below Saul

Way back in 1999, I did an interview with Nathan Shedroff, a talented designer who argued that in the future everyone would have her own personalized web site. It’s eerie, but Shedroff’s comments keenly predicted the blogging phenomenon as well as aspects of the social networking trend. Now he’s blazing fresh trails again. Shedroff is

In an intriguing move, Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has taken his campaign to LinkedIn. He’s asked users of the social networking service: “How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive?” The answers, more than 1300 as of this writing, are interesting. (HT: Venkat Rao)

The resignation of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe had an odd effect on the Japanese stock market: “Shares of companies linked to the Japanese style cartoons known as ‘manga’ jumped Wednesday on speculation that a big fan of the genre may become the country’s next prime minister.” The IHT, quoted above, is one of several