Most millennial partygoers attend brand-sponsored events for the entertainment. The most popular swag? Reusable bottles. Everyone loves a good party, and brands know that. As more events are sponsored, the ways that brands interact with partygoers before and after is becoming more important.Splash, creator of experiential marketing software, mined its data for trends among millennial partiers w...

Experts in UX, AI, and product design weigh in on the next big modality in computing. "I wish I could touch you," Theodore says, laying in bed. He’s met with silence. Rejection. Until she speaks up, tentatively. "How would you touch me?"It’s a famously poignant scene from the movie Her, as the character Theodore is about to make vocal love to an artificial intelligence living in his ear. But...

The Bios Incube is an incubator for the Bios Urn, a biodegradable urn that uses a person's ashes to help grow a tree after their death.Using cremation ashes to help grow a tree is an elegant, sensitive and natural way to memorialize someone after their death. This is what the Bios Urn, from a Barcelona-based company of the same name, is designed to do. The new Bios Incube provides more freedom...

In a world of fast-moving technological developments, CEOs are expected to keep up with the latest innovations, but are they doing enough to protect their companies from the downside of the internet?KPMG International recently surveyed more than 1,200 chief executives from some of the world’s largest companies in an attempt to find out their biggest concerns.Despite the obvious benefits that t...

‘Barbell Brew’ has come out in the UK; a healthy protein beer for body-conscious people.A NEW beer has gone on sale in the UK which has the same protein content as a slice of sirloin steak.Barbell Brew has the same alcoholic content of other lagers, but has the same amount of protein as a slice of sirloin steak, 33% fewer calories than regular lagers, 85% fewer carbs, and its gluten free. And...

Smacking the dust out of a pillow will clean it (and relieve some tension!) but then where does it go?! In the air? Up your nose? Grossness! The first of its kind, the Dual Beater was designed with a solution in mind. Use each of the electronic wands simultaneously to give your pillows the beating they deserve and they will simultaneously “inhale” the floating debris so you don’t have to! Wh...

Female demand for international mobility at an all-time high.Organisations across the world are using international mobility experiences to develop future leaders and advance the careers of key talent. Yet despite unprecedented demand, women currently only account for 20% of international assignees. To investigate such disconnects and help organisations address them, PwC has conducted research...

A little over three years ago, the Popslate presented an intriguing idea: What if a case could turn the back of your phone into an E Ink display? Like a lot of first-generation, crowdsourced products, the original didn’t quite live up to the promise. Popslate 2, though, looks like a very promising course correction.The original Popslate, which finally materialized last spring, worked as advert...

Some inventions are an immediate success. When Apple released the iPhone in 2007, customers lined up outside stores, desperate to get their hands on what the media called the Jesus phone, a reference to the device’s popularity.Other innovations aren’t quite as successful. Take electric cars. They’ve been around longer than you might think – they were first invented early in the 19th century...