A book as photo camera

Designer Kelli Anderson made the ultimate multimedia production of 2015, a book which can be transformed into a working camera. Kelli is a real paper aficionado who gets the most out of ´real´ book and already designed a book which transforms into a record player. This Book is a Camera is her newest project in…

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Personal rather than personalized

Consumers appreciate high quality customer service. More than half of consumers (54%) is willing to pay for better customer service for their favourite brands. Seven out of ten consumers of 71 years and older and even 40% of Generation Z (16-20 years old) indicate a willingness to pay if this would improve customer service. These…

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Blendle is coming to the United States.

The Dutch micropayment platform said Wednesday that it plans to launch a closed beta version of the site in the United States in early 2016, followed by a public launch a few months later. The company debuted in the Netherlands in the spring of 2014 before launching a German version this fall. Alexander Klöpping, the site’s…

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The most advanced eBook ever?

Lost My Name, a London start-up, has published an ebook for children full of new technology and probably the most advanced ebook ever. Their first book The Little Boy/Girl who Lost His/Her Name is followed by The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home. This book is personalized with the name and other variables, and creates based on…

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Computer sealed into magazine cover

For the occasion of the 40th edition of the UK MagPi magazine a complete pocket computer came free with the magazine. A small one though, the Raspberry Pi Zero. It is a very small computer, the Raspberry Pi Zero. Its modest dimensions, 31x65x5,4mm, make the mini mother board no less relevant. On the contrary, the…

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The right time to post to social media

Rush hours on social media exist. It is very important to know the right moment to post a commercial message. Different platforms have different ideal moments for generating clicks or to engage with the audience. Quicksprout agency has done some research and made it into a nice infographic. In short, Thursdays and Fridays are the most…

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Rekonect: paper notebook with interchangeable pages

Despite the tablets, laptops and smartphones, paper notebooks are still very popular. The disadvantage is that when a subject is discussed in different meetings at different times it is not possible to order the pages of the notebook. Rekonect´s new notebook can do this. Paper pages can be removed from the notebook and placed between…

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Companies invest in mobile apps

A recent study by Red Hat has shown that 90% of respondents want to invest in developing mobile apps in the coming year. The results also show that these same respondents predict their organization’s investment for mobile application development increasing at an average growth rate of 24 percent during the same period. The transformative power…

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ePaper watch

This week Sony will launch a watch in Japan which can change colour and pattern by using epaper. Sony announced this on 16 November. The FES watch was developed by an internal start up who raised money to produce the watch via crowdfunding. Both the face and the wristband are made of epaper. Through the…

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