How Obama is going to change your world

Friday, 7 November 2008
Colin Benjamin
From Smart Company Futurist Blog
Anyone thinking it’s more of the same now Obama has been elected is in for a shock.
The new Obama team is essentially is from the Chicago finance and legal networks rather than from the Washinton political and administration brigade. The key drive will be towards an inflationary [...]

Exergaming a new trend?

A few new youth fitness franchises have sprung up around the world which incorporate kids’ fitness with video games - the aim being to try and turn around the issues of childhood obesity.
NexGym keep kids moving through video game inspired workouts.  Not dissimilar to the Canadian Bulldog Interactive Fitness or Colorado’s XRKade.
NexGym has virtual reality [...]

The future is now - Colin Benjamin

NEW: Colin Benjamin
Thursday, 29 November 2007
The future is now

A friend has directed a venomous response to what he describes as this column’s gross inaccuracies.
He
disagreed with my call that the election result could have been closer
if there had been another week of Costello fear-mongering. That
Bennelong could have been saved from Maxine McKew the dancing media
queen, [...]

Shower Clean suit - the ultimate travel accessory

Konako Japan have released a Shower Clean Suit which can be washed after wear in warm water from the shower. Hang it and leave it to dry and within 2 hrs the suit is ready to wear again.
Its an anti-wrinkle material so there’s also no ironing required.  The suits are available for women and men [...]

Marriot to pay villagers not to chop down trees

In a different approach to CSR strategies, instead of simply switching to eco-friendly energy sources and recycling, Marriott have set up a programme with the Brazilians to pay villagers in the Amazon to not cut down trees. How they plan to do it hasn’t really been disclosed and it sounds like a complicated arrangement. [...]

Brainwave analysis for ad testing

Nielson & NeuroFocus have launched a new service in Japan where they analysis the brainwaves of respondents looking at advertisements. They essentially monitor the degree to which ads attract attention and generate emotional responses - and presumably which bits of the ads do.

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