Influx

We currently place a lot of emphasis on the digital gadgets we own; we recognize their style, we personalize them, we update them and we discard them when something cooler and more revolutionary comes along. What if we were looking at the wrong paradigm and it’s not about the form factor or the...

Microsoft’s Kinect has been massively successful, originally built as a reactive response to Nintendo’s Wii, it’s a technology that’s been hacked, played with and manipulated way beyond its original intent. Microsoft has no idea of its potential, but when hackers played,...

It seems like all of a sudden Amazon has crept from being the major e-commerce player onto a list of tech powerhouses and is being cited by analysts as the one of the players who could dominate the media/tech space. Jeff Bezos is certainly one of the smartest men in business and someone who despite...

Adidas are experimenting with an interesting piece of technology to enhance the store experience-called Adiverse. It’s basically a massive database of content that allows potential shoe purchasers to access a lot of detail about shoes. It goes deep very to include-media assets and even...

Could we be looking at the real transformation of TV in the next 24 months with Google and Apple both with big plans? Google is first out of the gate and just this week made a couple of very big announcements: 1). Unveiling a line up of new channels on the YouTube network which involves...

Microsoft has put together a fascinating video that imagines our new mobile future. It’s a future where we connect to intelligent touch screens of all sizes. It suggests a world where data flows seamlessly and where there’s enough intelligence and power built into these devices help us...

Much has been written about iPod's success as a brand and the brilliance of its marketing and design. Some observers have just named iPod brand of the year for 2004.In today's iPod world, music seems to be playing an ever increasing role in everyone's lives. People who in the past might have...

Sometimes you get to learn the most from doing something outside the normal scope of everyday business. When Tim Malbon of Made by Many got in touch to ask if BSSP would get involved in the 5050 good (a hub of 50 projects designed to raise 1 million punds) for UNICEF’s East Africa famine...

Old, but good- the Portlandia team did a great job of dramatizing the problem of tech overload.

Russell Davies of R/GA gave a superb talk at the RSA which was broadcast on the BBC, where he discussed the world of personal expression as it moves one step beyond blogging. His premise is that personal creativity is about to grow by leaps and beyond, he referenced the early and surprising growth...

The computer printer has to be one of the dullest and least interesting devices there is. People have nothing, but resentment for their printers because they seem to do the least interesting work accompanied, by nothing but problems. They are poorly made from ill-fitting plastic components, they...

Yesterday, Wal-Mart made an acquisition of a company One Riot. It’s a purchase that could easily escape most people’s radar, since the company is tiny and focused in a very specialized area. On paper, the company is in the mobile space and provides ad targeting technology, but if you...

With a world increasingly moving towards mobile gaming, there are interesting opportunities to create more personalized and relevant experiences using data about gamers and their behavior. This suggests a world of individualized gaming experience and advertising that aren’t constrained by...

Take a look at the video below from Gracenote and you will see an application to select music by mood. It’s an interesting idea and mood is something you see being played with by all kinds of designers from cars to hotel rooms. The idea of giving the user the opportunity to customize the...

The personal motivation business is worth billions of dollars; every bookstore you go to has acres of space devoted to it. People are obsessed with better understanding themselves and trying to set clear goals in their personal and business lives. It’s a like dieting, but for the mind; there are...