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  Toom
  
  09/03/2010
  
  Fabrizio Valente, Chairman of Kiki Lab and Founding Member of Ebeltoft, analyses the innovative mix of product and creative solutions on offer at Toom‘s boutique-style concept store.
- Fabrizio Valente
- Fabrizio Valente has over 25 years experience working in retail, consumers and research. He is chairman of retail consultancy Kiki Lab and founding member of Ebeltoft, a global network of firms specialising in retail and manufacturing strategy.
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- Quickfacts: Sociological
- 09/03/2010
- The evolution of romance
- In a paper recently published in The Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, two Canadian researchers — one of each gender — analyse the titles of Harlequin romance novels.
- Focus
- 09/03/2010
- Next Media
- Next Media is a Taiwan-based animation production company, capable of creating dramatised animations of news events within a couple of hours.
- Quickfacts: Country Profile
- 08/03/2010
- Australia
- A detailed cross-industry overview of Australia with up-to-date information on demographics, consumer attitudes, retail, media and technology.
- Focus
- 08/03/2010
- Papa Sangre
- Papa Sangre is the first game to ditch graphics altogether; players navigate using nothing but their hearing. The iPhone title – something of a next-gen ‘murder in the dark’ - is still in production with a provisional release date of early June.
- Focus
- 05/03/2010
- Pursway
- Pursway is an Israeli startup pioneering metrics which enable companies to pinpoint influencers and stimulate buzz within the social sphere.
- Quickfacts: Economic
- 05/03/2010
- The top 10 most liveable cities
- The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Survey 2010 assessed living conditions in 140 cities around the world, across five broad categories. Canada and Australia come out on top.
- Report
- 05/03/2010
- Is that a tastemaker in your pocket? Mobile and filtering
- As the gatekeeper to the mass of data and applications, smartphones are the multitasking, multipurpose widget of the present and the future. Ilya Vedrashko explores the ways mobile technology can manage and filter the vast amounts of content available.
- Focus
- 04/03/2010
- Mobile Movement
- Mobile Movement is a Canadian philanthropy project which aims to empower global community groups and charities, bridging the gap between rich and poor with the aid of the humble mobile handset.
Bloghunter
- - São Paulo: advertising ghost town
  - 09/03/2010
  - Outdoor advertising is ubiquitous in almost every urban setting around the world. But the city of São Paulo, Brazil is like an advertising ghost town: all of its billboards stand oddly blank and empty.
  - Haiti awareness
  - 09/03/2010
  - This infographic compares historic US event death totals to Haiti's devastating lost. The death total from all seven U.S. events is 126,592 whilst the death total in Haiti has now been estimated to reach over 300,000.
  - Banana leaf eco-packaging
  - 09/03/2010
  - This concept uses banana leaves as a new material to create new ecological packages for take away. Banana leaves are a product which exists in many regions around the world. This material has a wax-like surface which is ideal for wet and greasy foods.
  - Pimp my laundry room
  - 09/03/2010
  - And now, the most recent addition to the pimp storm - Pimp My Laundry Room, Please! All courtesy of Wisk Laundry detergent, in cahoots with TLC and We television's Designing Spaces.
  - Bobble
  - 09/03/2010
  - Designer Karim Rashid has created a bottle that filters tap water as the user drinks it. Called Bobble, the product features a replaceable carbon filter, available in six colours, which will filter ten litres of water before it needs to be replaced.
  - Null Stern Hotel – the world’s first zero star hotel
  - 09/03/2010
  - The Null Stern Hotel is a converted nuclear bunker in Switzerland. It prides itself on two things. First, it’s a zero star establishment, what you see is what you suffer. Second. It’s very quiet at night. Fourteen guests capacity, 25 Swiss Francs per person, per night.

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