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The annual Future Trends conference is coming to lovely South Beach Miami again next week, November 6-8th, 2006.
As trend scouts we really look forward to this conference since it combines so many innovative speaker from our field and from within corporations, CScout’s CEO, Florian Peter, being one of them.
We’re excited to share [...]
With the help of some new tools, technologies, and clever physical concepts, the new extreme sports are defying the force of gravity
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Fusing the most fun sports with modern technology, the new extreme sports besiege the physics of gravity. While some concepts seem to be rather simple, like incorporating trampolines into a game of [...]
Green Gadgets make energy visible, increasing the awareness of power consumption.
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Energy is easily reduced to an always-available, though invisible, product. Interactive Institute showcased a variety of innovative prototypes making energy visible to the consumer at the recent Nextfest in New York. With these green gadgets, the Swedish Research Institute wants to challenge the [...]
Welcome to the TrendSlam.
The TrendSlam is a special challenge for our speakers, so we set up some criteria for their presentation:
They have 5 minutes presentation time.
We provide you a PC with internet access connected to a projector.
So they don’t have to prepare a Power-Point – they can share their background infos live on the web.
They [...]
Trend Slam ’06: A glimpse view into emerging media futures and trends.
Enjoy an evening to meet, network and get inspired by the latest trends in the media industry. Trend Slam is a creative forum to experience the latest trends and exchange ideas with Innovators and interesting people.
Inspired by the famous „Pecha Kucha“ Parties around the [...]
Online services and websites are using the innovative and convenient interface of Google Maps in conjunction with their information streams.
Trend Description:
In March 2006 we featured the marketing trend of the use of Google Maps for advertising – termed Mapvertising.
Since then increasingly businesses have integrated Google Maps to show locations or to help users [...]
Last week we were in Amsterdam for Picnic ´06. More than 3000 international delegates attended the first-ever Amsterdam’s annual Summit focused on innovation and creativity in cross media content and technology, specifically in the fields of entertainment and communication.
Below you will find the most interesting and remarkable Picnic´06 topics and trends according to our perspective:
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Last weekend we attended the NextFest in New York City – Wired Magazine’s third annual “World Fair of the Future” which showcases the future of consumer technology and lifestyle. We’ve selected a few highlights for you that we found particularly interesting:
Robots:
If NextFest is a glimpse of our future then we’ll surely all [...]
The new service from skype, which allows phone conversations with up to 100 people, is inspiring new file sharing and advertisement concepts.
Trend Description:
Skype’s online software enables users to make free phone calls via the Internet. With 29 million registered users, the company is one of the biggest VoIP providers (Voice over Internet Protocol). As [...]
