04 2025 December
The 2025 Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide
Today we continue with my annual Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide, featuring a few products that caught my eye throughout the past year. 7. Delayed Gratification...
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The 2025 Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide
Today we continue with my annual Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide, featuring a few products that caught my eye throughout the past year. 5. Montblanc Digital...
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The 2025 Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide
This week, you’ll see my annual Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide with a few products that caught my eye throughout the past year. As I share...
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How AI Is Helping Reduce Accents, But Could Do Much More
Thanks to AI there are a number of new services that are designed to help language learners learn a new dialect and reduce their accents...
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Digg, the Internet’s Favorite Defunct Brand Is Coming Back
If you were around for the early days of the Internet, you might remember Digg. It was a collection of interesting stories that was so...
Read Now26 2024 September
What “Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of” Can Teach You About a Better Way to Work
Sometimes a good roundup post is exactly what you need to give you a new perspective on work. That’s what this compilation from the team...
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Scent Camera Recreates Travel Smells and More Core77 Design Award Winners
For the 12th year, the Core 77 Design Awards have spanned 22 categories and showcased product, branding and conceptual ideas from students and professionals imagining...
Read Now21 2024 May
How Airbnb “Icons” Illustrate the Future of Immersive Entertainment
The future of entertainment will be driven by more immersive experiences. This week, there was a story about how the Meta Quest VR headset will be...
Read Now29 2024 April
The Invisibility Shield Can Help You Actually Disappear … Now Available on Kickstarter
Hiding during a game of paintball. Doing a magic trick. Avoiding detection by real-life spyware. These are just a few of the potential uses for...
Read Now09 2024 April
AXA’s New Foresight Report Offers 100 Reasons to Love the Future
There are plenty of futurists who will offer you a list of all the ways the world can go wrong, and things could be worse....
Read Now10 2024 January
A Rare Roundup of African Startups and Countries to Watch in 2024
In the process of curating this newsletter every week, I read a lot of stories about startups and innovation. Hardly any feature case studies from...
Read Now14 2023 October
SXSW Sydney and a Sneak Peek at the Non-Obvious Podcast
Next week I'll be back in Australia speaking at the international edition of SXSW in Sydney. In addition to doing a Featured Session, I'll be recording two episodes LIVE from the stage for my upcoming Non-Obvious Show podcast (launching later this year).
Read Now10 2023 October
Welcome to Fat Bear Week, Which Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
“Think of Fat Bear Week as a March Madness meets Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.” That’s the way one article describes the annual habits...
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