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Creativity versus Your Smartphone Addiction
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I recently read this post by Ogilvy’s David Long, espousing the creative benefits of using a pen and notebook over purely digital means. Call me an old fuddy duddy, but I’ve always felt my best work comes from putting pen to paper. Reading David’s first point (“digital is distracting”) I was reminded of this TED…
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BACK TO THE FUTURE, TODAY
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When did Marty and Doc arrive in the future? Today, October 21, 2015. So how accurate was the future described in the classic 1989 Back to the Future II? Wearables Wearable tech is plentiful in the movie, and true to the movie’s prediction, we now have wearable devices such Google Glass and Apple’s Watch, among…
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Sally Kohn: Don’t like clickbait? Don’t Click. – TEDTalk
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In this 4 minute TEDtalk, Sally Kohn, CNN contributor, columnist and pundit, talks about a though provoking topic that concerns everybody – Media – and what we can all do to influence it. She calls clicking a “public act” that each of us can choose to do or not do to somehow shape what information…
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Putting the “FUN” back into theory
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The Fun Theory (a Volkswagen Initiative) argues, “fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better”. They held a competition for people who had fun ways of encouraging good behaviour. For example: a ‘bottle bank arcade’ to encourage recycling, ‘piano stairs’ to encourage exercise, ‘the world’s deepest bin’ to encourage people to properly…
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Take the stairs!
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On any normal day, due to complete laziness I would probably take the escalator. If you presented me with the opportunity to have ‘fun’ whilst climbing a set of stairs, I’d definitely consider it. The Fun Project – Piano Staircase was an initiative of Volkswagen to see if by making the daily chore of climbing the stairs to be ‘fun’, would…
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It must be the Super Bowl…
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What is the Super Bowl without the razzle dazzle of big name stars featuring in time-slot specific ads that (generally) lend themselves to being sent to all corners of the internet. Check out the latest which brings back Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller for Honda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhkDdayA4iA&feature=player_embedded