Snippets
Trotting the globe for thoughts, ideas, discussions, the next big thing and often uncovering the bizarre is the discourse of a day in the world of the Urban Rajah. These snippets have been collected to connect you with food for thought.
April 2013 | CLEAN SLATE BRANDS
The future belongs to CLEAN SLATE BRANDS. Thanks to a whole host of exceptional, newer, better, faster, eco-friendlier, more transparent and responsive brands, consumers are increasingly favoring unproven and unknown brands without heritage and history. Featuring Wewi, SmartThings, 2go, Snapchat and more... plus insights into what all brands can learn from CLEAN SLATE BRANDS.
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TürkçeMarch 2013 | MI CASA ES TU CASA
Many of South & Central America´s newly empowered consumers are enthusiastically supporting (if not working with) brands that don´t close their eyes to social inequality. Learn from brands and non-profits such as Buchanan's, Techo, and the 'Satisfeito' restaurant initiative...
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March 2013 | LOCALIZASIAN
Expect a boom in products 'Made in Asia, for Asia, by Asia', driven by rising expectations among Asian consumers and an avalanche of best-in-class products and services from Asian brands. Learn LOCALIZASIAN lessons from brands such as LG, WeChat, HTC and Tsingtao...
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February 2013 | VIRGIN CONSUMERS
The accelerating pace of innovation in the consumer arena means everyone (from Berlin to Bogotá) is now at times, if not constantly, a VIRGIN CONSUMER – unfamiliar with many of the products, services, apps, experiences or brands they encounter every day. As VIRGIN CONSUMERS experiment more than ever, we consider how all brands can adopt a VIRGIN mindset. Learn from the likes of BMW, Nike, Lytro and more...
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TED: Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass? - Sergey Brin (2013)
It's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin calls for a new way of seeing our relationship with our mobile computers -- not hunched over a screen but meeting the world heads-up.
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TED: Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard! - Jay Silver (2013)
Why can't two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn't you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the world around you. He shares some of his messiest inventions, and demos MaKey MaKey, a kit for hacking everyday objects.
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TED: Liu Bolin: The invisible man - Liu Bolin (2013)
Can a person disappear in plain sight? That’s the question Liu Bolin‘s remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called “The Invisible Man” because in nearly all his art, Bolin is front and center — and completely unseen. He aims to draw attention to social and political issues by dissolving into the background.
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TED: Maria Bezaitis: The surprising need for strangeness - Maria Bezaitis (2013)
In our digital world, social relations have become mediated by data. Without even realizing it, we’re barricading ourselves against strangeness -- people and ideas that don't fit the patterns of who we already know, what we already like and where we’ve already been. A call for technology to deliver us to what and who we need, even if it’s unfamiliar. (Filmed at TED@Intel.)
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