10 2018 August
Victorinox and How To Use Powerfully Ordinary Videos For Marketing
One piece of advice I am fond of sharing from the stage is about the importance of showing your work – something we are told...
Read Now12 2018 July
Pokemon Go Isn’t Dead … It’s Quietly Dominating
A little over two years ago, Pokemon Go was everywhere. People walked down the street glued to their phones. And then one day it all...
Read Now01 2018 July
5 Dangerously Futuristic Features Facebook Is Quietly Testing
Facebook is fond of running experiments, even though in the past this hasn’t gone so well. Yet these missteps haven’t stopped them from trying. Over...
Read Now25 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...
Read Now09 2018 April
Extinct Animal Zoos, Ungendered Baby Names And How To Save Social Media
Social media is under attack and all of us are trying to figure out what to do about it. Should we use Facebook less like...
Read Now26 2018 March
Black Mirror Predicting Reality, Coke Uses Blockchain And Spotify Tries To Be The Netflix Of Music
If you are a fan of the Netflix sci-fi series Black Mirror, this was a surreal week. Walmart patented autonomous robot bees (which get hacked to...
Read Now15 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...
Read Now05 2018 March
AI Outperforms Lawyers, Seeking Love With DNA Matches And Google “Right To Be Forgotten”
This week you’ll find stories of DNA-based dating to automated agriculture, but there was one that captured my attention most. It relates to the latest...
Read Now16 2018 February
Gender At The Olympics, Diesel Sells Fake Products and Why Apple’s Homepod Is A Bad Buy
The value of branding was questioned in a few stories this week, including one of a perfume store selling scents without the “noise” of marketing...
Read Now09 2018 February
The Disruption Issue: Norway’s Olympic Curling Pants, Saudi Solar And Soap Fetishes
This week disruption was the theme in multiple stories featuring everything from new ASMR videos, to rocket launches to more than one story warning about...
Read Now04 2018 January
7 Exciting Trends To Watch From CES 2018
In the first years of publishing my annual trend report, I used to wait until early in the year just so I could go to...
Read Now25 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...
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