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A rolling music speaker that encourages play

Bang & Olufsen is continuing to demonstrate its artistic approach to audio devices with a playful touch-driven speaker that can be rolled from room...

Micro Trends

Avatar Influence

From their role as brand ambassadors to their impact on consumers’ interactions in fashion, digital avatars are opening up new opportunities for ...

Fashion : Digital : Retail

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Mira’s Prism headset is making AR more accessible

Los Angeles – The product will be powered by the iPhone and will sell for $99.

Technology : AR : Digital

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Token is a new smart ring focused on security

US – The wearable device enables users to purchase products, open their cars and replace access cards.

Digital : Technology : Finance

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Challenging the flat screen

London – Digital artist Lucy Hardcastle has created an organically shaped touchscreen that offers a multisensory tactile experience.

Digital : Technology : Digital Interfaces

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Asif Khan opens energy-inspired design pavilion

Astana – The pavilion, We Are Energy, explores climate change, human civilisation and energy innovation in the UK.

Design : Digital : Technology

Big Ideas

Experts predict AI will outperform humans in the near future

Global – The findings are part of a study conducted by the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford.

Digital : Retail : Technology

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The Bragi Dash Pro combines AI, mixed reality and cognitive learning

New York – The ‘hearable’ device features real-time language translation, a 4D menu and a gesture-controlled interface.

Digital : Technology : Wellness

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Immersive seasoning

Tokyo – TeamLab has created an immersive dining experience that responds to diners’ movements.

TeamLab : Tokyo : Hospitality

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Preview: Friend Bots

Brands are combining artificial intelligence with anthropomorphic design to create robots that offer friendship on demand.

Neo-Kinship : Artificial Intelligence : Kuri

Big Ideas

Augmented cognition

US – Elon Musk has launched a new start-up that will work to create digitally connected transhumans.

Artificial Intelligence : Awakening Tech : The Optimised Self

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Virtually pointless

Dubai – Travel agency Dnata’s latest campaign satirises the concept of taking a virtual holiday.

Dnata : Virtual Reality : Travel

Design Directions

Delete

Interactive exhibition Delete asked children to consider the boundary between the digital and physical worlds.

DELETE : The Sharded Self : Awakening Tech

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Touch-sensitive surfaces

Mobile World Congress 2017, Barcelona – Sony Mobile has introduced a new interactive projector that converts any surface into a touch-sensitive int...

Sony : Mobile World Congress : Awakening Tech

Viewpoints

The Politics of the Avatar

If virtual reality is the future of social networking, should their be rules around the appearance of users?

Virtual Reality : The Sharded Self : Avatars

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Smart surfaces

Sheffield – Design studio Universal Everything has created a series of visual works that re-imagine commonplace surfaces such as technology-enabled...

Universal Everything : Awakening Tech : IoT

Big Ideas

A friendly AI adviser

Switzerland – In a world in which children are increasingly developing their own online presence, Oyoty helps to keep them safe as they navigate ...

Oyoty : Awakening Tech : Privately SA

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Social swiping

Global – Dating app Tinder is now available on Apple TV.

Tinder : Apple TV : Dating

Big Ideas

AI education

Global – Harvard Business School has joined the list of top business schools that have introduced AI to their syllabuses.

Artificial Intelligence : Education : Business

Big Ideas

AI futures

US – A new study by Stanford University explores the ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) will affect us in the future.

Artificial Intelligence : Awakening Tech : Stanford University

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Digitally mining memories

Seattle – Atlas Informatics has launched a photographic search engine that acts as an online memory assistant.

Awakening Tech : Atlas Informatics : Recall

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A-Eye curation

Berlin – Photography publication EyeEm has launched the first journal to be curated entirely by artificial intelligence.

Awakening Tech : EyeEm : Magazine

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Dutch Design Week 2016: Digital Artefacts

Eindhoven – Designer Magnús Ingvar Ágústsson created a series of physical objects that enable us to emotionally engage with the increasingly abstra...

Dutch Design Week 2016 : Cashless Society : Awakening Tech

Big Ideas

Ok computer

Global – Consumers are far more likely to see artificial intelligence (AI) in a positive light than a negative one, according to new research.

Artificial Intelligence : Awakening Tech : Consumer Attitudes

Big Ideas

Ice-breaker

Global – Facebook Messenger now prompts beta users to talk to each other about shared interests.

Facebook : Awakening Tech : Chat Bots