Written By Daniel Allen on Monday, November 17, 2008 at 8:56 PM | In Lifestyle, Technology, USA | Please Comment
Innovative cellphone software now fulfills users’ wishes to adopt environmentally sound practices
Social meta-trends such as LOHAS show that people are willing to make personal contributions to address global environmental problems like carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, and resource scarcity. Now mobile phone applications make it easy to monitor the individual “carbon footprint,” compare it, and [...]
Written By Daniel Allen on at 11:00 AM | In Technology, USA | Please Comment
Eco-friendly concept phones highlight the way of the future
Every day, over 420,000 cellphones are retired in the US, and the vast majority are still not recycled. E-waste is the fastest growing category of municipal waste in many countries across the world, and with the consumer electronics industry one of the fastest growing industries on the [...]
Written By CScout on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 9:53 PM | In CScout News, Marketing, Technology | Please Comment
The launch of the iPhone App store this summer has offered a number of innovative applications to become available for people to enhance their mobile experience.
The iPhone took the mobile world by storm and within one year has resulted in the mobile ecosystem to be turned on it’s head. Apple’s iPhone App Store for [...]
Written By Michael Keferl on Monday, November 3, 2008 at 2:54 AM | In Japan, Lifestyle, Technology, UK | Please Comment
Japan’s aging society is still a wealthy one, and isn’t afraid to spend money on products and services that can enhance quality of life.
Salt Studio Saltasia fits right into this category, creating stylish salt rooms to promote anti-aging and relaxation for women. Saltasia uses hexagon-shaped, natural salt tiles on the floor, ceiling, and walls [...]
Written By Cate Trotter on Friday, October 24, 2008 at 11:38 PM | In Technology | Please Comment
Tactile surfaces are making technology and information much more accessible to people with visual handicaps
As a range of new interfaces and surfaces for digital devices are developed, it is becoming easier for visually impaired people to use devices sighted people take for granted. Tactile displays enable digital data to be felt rather than seen, making [...]
Written By CScout on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 12:23 AM | In Marketing, Technology, USA | Please Comment
Consumer packaged goods makers enhance product designs with practical twists.
Always on the lookout for new ways to interest customers, packaging designers have found ways to enhance the pack’s contents, by using it to chill or make its contents more flavorful. No longer competing on aesthetics along, the new designs give customers a practical reason to [...]
Written By Daniel Allen on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 7:46 PM | In China, Technology | 1 Comment
A combination of innovation factors underpins rapid growth in the Chinese mobile commerce sector.
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China is rapidly emerging as the global capital of m-commerce applications, driven by an increasingly high-tech digital environment, the world’s largest mobile phone subscriber base (nearly 600 million), and the recent launch of the country’s own 3G standard (TD-SCDMA).
Although China [...]
Written By Michael Keferl on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 3:37 PM | In Japan, Technology | 1 Comment
At this year’s Wireless Japan Expo, Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo debuted some new RakuRaku (easy easy) handsets made for aging users who are concerned about their health and want to keep both good records and good communication with health care professionals.
With the F884iES users can place their fingers over the camera lens, which can determine [...]
Written By Michael Keferl on Friday, August 29, 2008 at 5:20 PM | In Japan, Technology | Please Comment
While some phones are making music down at the KDDI Designing
Studio, the Ply concept phone from Hideo Kanbara might just be a step towards bringing the office with us.
Ply’s name is taken from the design of multilayered plywood, and each layer has its own very distinct function, ranging from a photo printer to game controller [...]
Written By Xuan Zuo on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 10:12 PM | In India, Technology | Please Comment
Though Indian companies still spend 80% of their advertising budgets on print and television media, some are recognizing the power of mobile advertising.
Hindustan Unilever and Coca-Cola, two of the biggest advertisers in India, have entered mobile space for the first time with the launch of ad campaigns for Cornetto ice creams and Sprite respectively. Both [...]
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