29 2018 June
How Hot Dog Water Became The Hottest New Health Drink In America
Hot Dog Water officially launched this week and you can have some for just $38 a bottle. Before you roll your eyes in disgust, would...
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25 2018 June
The Passive Future Of Learning: How To Learn Piano In An Hour
Imagine learning a new skill such as playing the piano or reading braille in as little as an hour. That may soon be a reality...
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15 2018 June
How Brands Become Fixers Of Everything From Potholes To Fake News
Domino’s just started fixing potholes on roads, to help your pizza get delivered undisturbed. In response to news stories of kids getting fined by overzealous...
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11 2018 June
How To Reinvent A Brand: Lessons From Kodak, Blackberry and Crayola
This week Crayola branched out in a new direction by launching its own line of colorful beauty products. In the same week, Blackberry continued their...
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15 2018 March
Why We Love Fake Stories, Perfume That Smells Like Nothing And My Slides From SXSW
I spent the early part of this week at SXSW and one of the themes of my talk (see slides here) was our shifting relationship...
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25 2017 October
Nissan Will Make Its Electric Cars “Sing” To Protect Pedestrians
Electric cars are too quiet. For years, unsuspecting pedestrians accustomed to listening for cars would walk into the road in front of electric cars, unaware of their...
Read Now17 2017 October
How Chicken Feathers Could Be The Future Of Home Insulation
It takes some serious Non-Obvious thinking to dream up using discarded chicken feathers as a super efficient home insulation material – but that’s the idea...
Read Now11 2017 September
Peercel Lets You Ship Packages By Sending Them With Strangers
What if you could have a stranger hand deliver your package internationally? While intriguing on paper this idea has many challenges given security concerns and...
Read Now04 2017 September
Japan’s Hottest Wedding Photo Trend: Couples Sealed In Airtight Plastic
Nothing says forever like getting vacuum sealed in plastic to be photographed with your newly beloved. Tokyo-based photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi describes his quirky portrait idea as...
Read Now01 2017 September
Canada Offers Third Gender Option Of “Intersex” For Passports
On August 24th the Canadian government approved a provisional measure to allow individuals who identify as neither male nor female to select a gender neutral...
Read Now16 2017 August
The NuturePod Offers A Scary Prediction Of Future Parenting
Sometimes art is the best way to shine a lens on how our culture may be changing for better … or worse, as is the...
Read Now10 2017 August
IKEA Creates 72 Regional Versions Of Its Iconic Catalog … Here’s Why
This week IKEA will release its new 2018 catalog, and this timely piece looks at how a small internal army of hundreds of photographers, art...
Read Now06 2017 August
The Future of Elevators Could Go Sideways
What if elevators went sideways? They might soon thanks to a new system invented and being tested by German elevator producer ThyssenKrupp which aims to...
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