Happy New Year. Currently working on a new series of presentations researching into the integration of social media with traditional broadcasting. A lot of international media seems to be collapsing at the moment, but the ways of storytelling on emerging platforms has never been more exciting than now. Would like to work with more creative [...]
Honda Motor Co. Japan concept cater dog friendly car, termed as the WOW. The W.O.W. Concept, which stands for “wonderful openhearted wagon”. Honda designer Katsuhito Nakamura said “This vehicle created from the view point of a dog, but it turned out to be a gentler vehicle for the elderly, children and other family members,”. The [...]
A Business Week report has the iPhone landing at Verizon by Valentine’s Day or earlier. Business Week quotes an unnamed source saying Apple will introduce a Verizon version of its popular handset sometime after the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January. Verizon has scheduled a special media call on the afternoon of [...]
Golf drivers have always been black, or at least dark, right? Well, the golf company that does innovations — or chances — like few others is trying to turn that thought on its head. Following the introduction of white putters, TaylorMade plans to unleash its new white R11 driver next month. Look for ads tapping [...]
Golf drivers have always been black, or at least dark, right? Well, the golf company that does innovations — or chances — like few others is trying to turn that thought on its head. Following the introduction of white putters, TaylorMade plans to unleash its new white R11 driver next month. Look for ads tapping [...]
I have been fortunate to be able to listen again to a great series of programmes I was involved in. The station was Radio Netherlands, the programme Media Network. I still believe it was an early “FaceBook” bringing together teams of passionate people to discuss what was happening in media and technology at the time. [...]
Craze for multi faceted and multipurpose objects is a simple human psychology that many of the designers exploit to make their products more interesting and desirable. Now, you tell us that whoever thought of a keyboard with a pencil box, that is a storage utility has surely created an award winning gadget. This design occupies [...]
The Takayanagi Miluira Retro EV is a throwback to the 1920s. The 770-pound Japanese one-seater, with a top speed of 37 miles per hour, is meant to be a city car. The lead acid batteries will give it a range of about 22 miles. With a price tag of $75,000 and ‘retro’ batteries, the Miluira [...]
Paris December 2010Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks There is still a lot of confusion out there about the economics of audio over the phone. I was recently in Paris for the great LeWeb10 conference and passed by ads for the Samsung Wave. First phone I have seen with a prominent menu option for webradio. That [...]
Have to share this video of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on the “Soul Train Music Awards” learning how to do the latest dance craze sweeping the nation: The Dougie. The dance is named after rapper Doug E Fresh who made this his signature move, much like Michael Jackson’s moon walking and leg kicking. Enjoy.