Added 14 February, 2013
Africa Health Placements, a social-profit recruitment agency collaborated with Boomtown, a strategic brand agency in South Africa, to create the world’s first stethoscope radio ad. They sent a direct mail package out to foreign doctors to recruit them to work in Africa. But rather than a pamphlet that could easily be thrown away, they found an...
Added 13 February, 2013
IBM‘s Watson computer is being trained at WellPoint and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center how to process, analyze and interpret the meaning of complex clinical information. It has taken on board over 600,000 pieces of medical evidence, two million pages of text from 42 medical journals and clinical trials in the area of oncology research. Now...
Added 13 February, 2013
Kickstart, meant to be a morning energy drink, has a taste resembling Mountain Dew, contains five percent fruit juice, roughly 92 mg of caffeine, and 80 calories per 16-ounce can.
Added 13 February, 2013
Tom and Gary’s Decentralized Dance Party invites their 100s of guests to each bring a boom box and tune them all to the same frequency on the party's private FM radio transmitter.
Added 13 February, 2013
American Express card holders can now purchase select products via Twitter. After syncing your Amex card to Twitter, tweet a specific product hashtag, AmexSync will send you a reply with a confirmation code, tweet that and you've made a purchase. For now, orders will come with free two-day shipping.
Added 12 February, 2013
Designed by Bureau Rabensteiner, the cards, change from black to white when touched.
Added 12 February, 2013
In Bolivia, nearly half of the population lives below the poverty line. This means that housing is a huge problem and many don’t have the necessary funds to live in suitable accomodation. Now readily-available plastic bottles are being filled with soil and used to build houses.
Added 12 February, 2013
In Brazil, Nivea and Agencia ClickIsobar built an app that only bothers to wake you up if it will be a beach day. The alarm clock is integrated with weather information from the Weather Channel.
Added 12 February, 2013
PequeTrámites is a Spanish-based service offering to deal with all of the documentation and registration that comes with having a baby, including setting up social security numbers, appling for a birth certificate, and getting a passport.
Added 11 February, 2013
The iPad Pedestal Stand is the latest home neccesity for those who have everything.