Ingenious design strategy or clever marketing ploy? The business travelers who eventually stay in the hotel will be the best judges. New York City real estate company Prodigy Network is crowd-sourcing ...

At 6 feet, 3 inches, Sam Carmichael was more comfortable standing than sitting at his office desk. But his standing desk broke soon after he got it, and higher-quality versions cost thousands. So ...

The 17 million users of the crowdsourcing market place freelancer.com have a unique chance to help design part of a NASA robot for the International Space Station, the site announced this week. Under ...

There's a lot of buzz about the concept of "crowdsourcing," which is essentially an Internet-era application of the idea Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer employed to get Aunt Polly's fence whitewashed. But ...

DesignCrowd, the Australia-headquartered crowdsourcing service for designers, has kicked into the next gear of its international expansion after it entered Asia via launches in India, Singapore and ...

DesignCrowd has doubled its business in the past year and now boasts 108,000 designers under its roof. Why is design crowd-sourcing so lucrative, even if not everyone gets to win the client’s prizes?

A new partnership between GE and Local Motors focuses on a manufacturing model that pairs co-creation and micromanufacturing to develop and bring to market new GE Appliances. In case there is some ...

Crowdsourcing, by its very name, encourages a comparison to outsourcing. But when Wired first published the article that entered the term into the popular lexicon, it was far from clear whether the ...

There is a quiet kind of power in being understood, not through long conversations or clinical diagnoses, but through something soft, strange, and unexpectedly honest. For thousands around the world, ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2011 -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is leveraging the "power of the crowd" to reduce the time it takes to design and build complex, expensive combat vehicles, an ...

Access Design brought dozens of stylish Houstonians to the Houston Design Center for two days of seminars on interior design topics. For a "Design Happy Hour," Lindsey Herod and Chase Dowell showed ...