The 'X' factor in innovations - Simplicity

Credits to Harsh Agarwal for this post

A company Spranq based in Netherlands has come up with a very innovative way to fight recession - by saving on printing costs. They have developed a font which will reduce the ink usage by as much as 20%.

The elegance of the solution is its simplicity. Just have a look at the font:

Guess what is different about the font? 

Yes - you got it right. Its the holes that go with the characters.

This is where they say they have got the inspiration from:

"After Dutch holey cheese, there now is a Dutch font with holes as well."

They encountered the problem about how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability. After testing with all kinds of shapes, they figured out that the best results were achieved using small circles.

Hats off to the company for this path-breaking yet a very simplistic solution. That, according to me is true innovation. Did I hear someone screaming 'Why didn't I think of it earlier than those guys?' - Don't worry! even Microsoft couldn't think about it!! But, on the serious note here comes the morale of the story - You don't need to be a giant to create something really useful - all you need is to take some inspiration from your environment(Cheese in this case :D) !!

Company website : http://www.spranq.nl/en/

Re-public Vote

I seriously do not understand the voting system in India where you cannot vote if you are a resident of a city other than where you got your voter's card. Like a driving license, I should have the ability to vote in any city that I reside in if I satisfy the other criteria that allow me to vote. I know we have gaps in this proposition - but isn't it high time that a IT driven country uses IT to eliminate the gaps in implementing the above requirement. The call is a long one, but I want to contribute my two-paise thoughts in to this. I have a I-card like my PAN card or a driving license and I am qualified to vote in Bangalore - I walk to the voting center and register my vote for the required election. If I vote at one place for the same election, I cannot vote once more. But if I want, I should be allowed to vote in my native place for the lok sabha elections as well. We can sit together to formulate how things should be. This will help me if I am unable to travel to my native (or wherever I have the voter card issued), to still vote. It is really important that the educated India votes. Any thoughts?

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