Written By Josefine Koehn on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 8:52 PM | In Marketing Trends, Technology Trends, Lifestyle Trends, USA | Please Comment
Wearable webcams enable lifecasters to broadcast online 24/7.
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Wearable digital technology enables users to broadcast their lives around the clock. While there are many sites that allow users to post videos online for free, a personal 24/7 online video stream required the broadcaster to host his or her own website. Justin.tv allows users to feed […]
Written By Josefine Koehn on Friday, February 15, 2008 at 7:48 PM | In Marketing Trends, Lifestyle Trends, Germany, USA, Japan, UK, Europe, China | Please Comment
Inspired by the success of talent shows on TV corporations put out casting calls to their employees.
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Corporate contests are mostly associated with team-building events and company retreats. McDonald’s has tried to get employees more genuinely revved up, however, with an American Idol-esque contest, the Voice of McDonald’s, which invites the general public to get […]
Written By Josefine Koehn on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 5:09 PM | In Technology Trends, Lifestyle Trends, USA | Please Comment
Energy, generated by the human body, can be used to power small devices.
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Electronics are becoming cheaper, smaller, and more ubiquitous. People tend to carry their devices around with them, often not able to access an electric outlet. While clever power management and circuit design reduce power requirements, researchers and designers have begun tapping into […]
Written By Josefine Koehn on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 5:36 PM | In Lifestyle Trends, USA | Please Comment
New filters use living plants to improve indoor air quality.
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Green plants are nature’s natural air filters. Why not use them for human purposes, too? “Living air filters” are mini greenhouses that take in polluted air into their humid mini-environments and filter out contaminations. A study by NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America […]
Written By Josefine Koehn on Monday, February 4, 2008 at 12:29 AM | In Technology Trends, Lifestyle Trends, USA, Europe | Please Comment
Solar Design helps to bring – electric power to the poor.
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By harnessing the power of the sun many otherwise cost- and energy-intensive processes and products can become more easily implimented world-wide, while simultaneously saving energy. Some of these solar products are practical or entertaining, such as the ones introduced in our post about […]
Written By Josefine Koehn on Friday, February 1, 2008 at 12:16 AM | In Marketing Trends, Lifestyle Trends, USA | Please Comment
Lines between virtual and real-life communities blur.
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With websites like virtualibiza.com and the clubbing venues on Second Life, nobody really has to get out of his or her comfy apartment to meet likeminded partiers and music-fans anymore. MTV has taken this virtual clubbing concept a step further with Virtual Lower Eastside (VLES.com), the […]
Written By Josefine Koehn on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 12:24 AM | In USA, UK, Europe | Please Comment
Growing eco-awareness inspires product design using recycled materials.
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One mans trash is the other mans treasure, as they say, and more and more designers are realizing this as they are increasingly challenged by the demands of a society generating more trash than ever before. Instead of using expensive materials many designers have started reusing disgarded […]
Written By Josefine Koehn on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 11:37 PM | In Technology Trends, Lifestyle Trends, USA | Please Comment
Robo Pets can be cuddly, cool, practical, and even come as open source.
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Artificially intelligent robots aren’t the stuff of science fiction anymore — they’re becoming increasingly affordable for the average consumer. Several new lines of robo products are now on the market, some which appeal to our inner nerds, others which are even quite […]
Written By Ray Cha on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 9:10 PM | In Lifestyle Trends, USA | Please Comment
Eco-Education encourages children and young people to make a change.
Eco-Education 2.0 offers new, fun ways to integrate environmental education in the curriculum and at home and helps kids explore ways of how they can help.
Children and young people are naturally interested in their environment. According to a poll by US-publisher Scholastic “only about one in […]
Written By Florian Peter on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 7:39 PM | In Marketing Trends, Technology Trends, USA | Please Comment
Video-sharing and search sites are reaching a record number of users.
We have reported as far back as May 2005 on the innovations happening in Internet TV both affecting brands and users - from Video Blogging to Brand-TV-Channels, Lonely Girl, Video Portal Marketing , Interactive Video Search, and most recently how Hip-Hop goes Video […]
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