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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...
Lowering the barriers of entry into the world of creativity is something technology has been doing for a while, but in the last few years it seems to have accelerated. Music making and DJ tools have turned your average hipster with some basic music knowledge into a more accomplished creator. If you...
Andreas Gursky is the photographer behind the world’s most valuable contemporary photograph, but in some of his most recent work Oceans (2009-2010), which can be seen at the Gargosian in New York , instead of photographer, he plays the role of digital manipulator. Inspired by a flight map he...
Think of a viewing center for deer in National Park, one can imagine some kind of old hut, perhaps it might be inspired by the 1920s (the golden age of National Parks) and on the surface it doesn’t sound like an excuse to create something extraordinary from an architectural perspective. However,...
As the economy fluctuates and there’s no clear direction, US shoppers are now developing and enhancing their coping and survival strategies. IRI has done a tremendous amount of work to understand how consumers are adapting to the economic landscape and how their behavior is being transformed....
Corporations are trying to work out their role in the world beyond revenues and profits. It’s a story that’s been repeating itself for the last few decades with corporations flirting with corporate social responsibility. In a world focused on short-term revenues and driving shareholder value,...
We’ve seen a number of attempts to re-enact the crash of 2008 from the perspective of the lead players. It’s all been well documented; “Too Big to Fail”, the crisis weekend and the search for white knights to save the troubled banks. Margin Call a movie written and directed by JC...
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...
While the “local” trend has been around for a while, it’s mostly been focused around the “soft” things like farmer’s markets and some large corporations acknowledged the trend’s presence by trying harder to appear more “local” and to be more...
Watch Sheryl Sandeberg’s presentation at this year’s ANA Conference and you come away with the impression that Facebook believes its the leader in a communication revolution that’s transforming consumers from listeners into broadcasters. Consumer broadcasting manifests itself in...
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...
If you want an trip into the “money culture” that OWS appears to be rallying against, you need to go no further than look to the trade publications that covered that world. The perfect chronicler of the culture was Trader Monthly- who for the best part of the C21st has recorded and...
Dave over at ETF Digest (a required read for planners) posted an interesting chart yesterday that shows how the correlation between consumer confidence and spending, that had been so reliable, has broken apart. The logical assumption obviously being that the less confidence consumers had in the...