Research snacks x Synovate.
“The biggest cinema lovers are the Spaniards (43% either could not live without it or would miss it a great deal if it were not there), followed by Brazilians (33%) and the Chinese (32%).”
Global media survey: DigitALL in sightFuturelab shares a very interesting study on mobile retail..
Based on a visual survey we have done in the Benelux, Germany, Greece, Romania, Russia and Ukraine, we have asked our non-mobile retail specialists to look at the mobile retail situation. We did the trend analysis. Compared best practices. We talked to consumers. We organized an internal think tank. And rather than just say what is wrong, we formulated 7 pragmatic steps that anyone in mobile retailing can take to start improving the customer experience and profitability of their stores.
Design Based on Trends, Not What’s Trendy
Fifteen years ago when Ziba Design managers interviewed trends experts for a new research department, we were always struck by a commonality among the many candidates: siloed thinking. A trends specialist, for example, knew that wood was “in” that year in the auto industry and faithfully showed wood detail on all the products in her portfolio. Like her, most of the trends experts we met with had knowledge of what was trendy in a given industry, but didn’t connect the dots across industries and cultures.
Design Based on Trends, Not What’s Trendy - Advertising Age - CMO Strategy
FedEx unveils Senseaware, a drop-in sensor for packages that monitors everything from nasty falls to boxes being opened.
Yesterday, in Mark’s post about new technology that could one day generate power from slow moving currents in rivers and oceans, commenter SamSam wondered whether “any weird and new generators ever get out of the lab and start providing meaningful amounts of power?” It’s a fair question, and I think a lot more technologies are announced than do (or ever will) make it to market. Partly, that’s just the nature of invention. Partly, it has to do with the fact that it takes a long time to develop this stuff and we’re still kind of at the beginning of the alternative generation industry. But sometimes, the crazy ideas do work, at least well enough to move out of the lab and into beta-testing. For instance, today, Norway’s state-owned utility opened a prototype generator that produces electricity via osmosis.
via Weird, New Electricity Generator Takes Baby Step Into Real World - Boing Boing
THIS IS WHY 1982* IS NOT A BLOG, IT’S A RE-BLOG:
REBLOGGIN” REVOLUTION
How taking others” online content for your own use is no longer considered stealing
Way back when GeoCities and 56k were respected terms and not the punch lines of tech geek jokes, plenty of website coders got rich by stealing content and throwing it online with a few advertisements. But then Web surfers and search engines revolted against them, making recycled content a taboo practice (and the bottom of search queries). Times have changed though, as recently we’ve been seeing a huge boom in reblogging, with online aggregators and digests that resemble glorified bookmark pages having become accepted - and in the case of Tumblr’s “reblog” button, welcomed - forms of blogging.
“The recession has certainly caused online shoppers to alter their purchasing habits and online retailers are now also facing a severe slowdown in newcustomers. Our report suggests that retailers must turn their attention to driving repeat business – shifting marketing spend away from attracting new customers and instead focussing it on adding value for their existing customer base. Those retailers that try to win on price alone will be left behind but those that clearly offer extra value, and communicate it upfront to the customer will be ahead of the game.”
- Neil Sunders , Verdict Consulting.
Ten online retail trends for the next decade — Welcome to Netimperative.com
In this episode, VBS.tv travels to New Hampshire to hang out with Ralph Baer. He tells them about his past and how he came to be one of the most important figures in video gaming history.
via Ralph Baer and his All-Purpose Boxes - MOTHERBOARD | VBS.TV
HP Labs has announced a project they’ve dubbed the CeNSE (Central Nervous System for the Earth) - their ambitious attempt to build a planet-wide infrastructure for a future Internet of Things. (via HP Labs’ Central Nervous System for the Earth - PSFK
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To promote Louisiana’s Voodoo Experience music festival, New Orleans agency Zehnder Communications built a custom augmented reality application for use with Layar. Users could find information about performances, attractions, and services by simply looking through their smartphone’s camera.
via Interview: Zehnder on Voodoo Augmented Reality Concert Experience « MobileBehavior
