Category Archive for: Trends

A little spacewine?

A dozen bottles of Chateau Petrus Pomerol recently completed a 438-day, 19-hour stay on the International Space Station. Now, one of the $5,000 bottles has been uncorked and tasted for the first time. Several wine experts who sampled a glass of the ‘#spacewine‘ said it was delicious and perhaps two to three years more evolved…

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Gartner’s Emerging Tech & Trends Impact Radar

Gartner‘s fascinating look at emerging tech trends, adoption, and the future – with 3 themes – Interfaces and experiences; Business enablers; and Productivity revolution. The rings represent the range, which estimates the number of years it will take until the technology or trend crosses from early adopter to early majority adopter. The size and color…

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Monkey plays Neuralink Mind Pong

Following the video of Pager the 9-yr-old macaque’s release, #ElonMusk took to Twitter and explained Neuralink’s short-term goals. “First Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone with their thumbs,” he stated. Musk added that later versions would be able to shunt signals from Neuralinks in the brain to those implanted in the…

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Advertising without Cookies?!

Ah, yes the #cookie. Marketers and advertisers have come to love and rely on the cookie. But as we have seen with Google and Apple – #privacy comes first (I truly think Tim Cook is trying to put the world in a better place). We should own our data and decide who sees and uses it and for what purpose. Only then…

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Dom Perignon + Lady Gaga = The Queendom

Lada Gaga is back in the #luxury realm (remember Tiffany & Co. x Gaga). Dom Perignon and #LadyGaga have created the #Queendom with Nick Knight whose trippy visuals of crystal castles that morph into catwalks and an endless party blend perfectly into Lady Gaga’s music and zeitgeist. Let the expensive pink bubbles flow. #wakeupimagine #DomPérignonxLadyGaga #creativity #luxurybrands

Satan is back. And… landed his Dream Job.

Fresh of off finding love on Match, Satan finds his dream job. Guy is on a hot streak! Yes, Ryan Reynolds and Maximum Effort have Satan back in action post his love-finding escapades. He’s now the ideas guy at Big Wireless – more fulfilling and even more rewarding than gathering souls for the underworld. Who’s he up against?…

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The Cognitive Bias Codex

A #cognitivebias is an inherent thinking ‘blind spot’ that reduces thinking accuracy and results inaccurate–and often irrational–conclusions. Much like logical fallacies, cognitive biases can be viewed as either causes or effects but can generally be reduced to broken thinking. Not all ‘broken thinking,’ blind spots, and failures of thought are labeled, of course. But some are so…

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Xupermask = will.i.am x Honeywell

Will.i.am‘s superhero-inspired mask has air filters, earbuds, and LED lights! The Black Eyed Peas iconic lead man is back with another wild gadget — though this one might be his most aptly timed yet. Dubbed “Xupermask,” it combines personal protective equipment #PPE elements with high-tech audio to create a device that, according to will.i.am, has been designed to…

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Pillcam and the Fantastic Voyage

P I L L C A M – for decades, sci-fi writers have fantasized about taking a “fantastic voyage” inside the human body. The story usually involves a maverick scientist getting miniaturized, popped into a syringe, and then, next thing you know, he or she is slaloming around inside a live person. Sounds outrageous, right?…

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WeWork and THE (so must see) Documentary

W E W O R K the Documentary – launching April 2 on Hulu – you know this is a crazy MUST watch as they beam the pure unadulterated WeWork cult of #AdamNeumann to your screen. And of course, always the shrinking violet, Scott Galloway giving his best “Are you kidding me!” take on the whole shebang. #wakeupimagine #startups SoftBank #funding #SXSWFilmFestival SXSW #wework

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