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Big Ideas

Snap them all

North America – Snap Inc is dropping a limited supply of its Spectacles product in random locations across the US using automated vending machines.

Snapchat Spectacles : Geo Quests : Anti-choice Architecture

Daily Signals

For good measure: Shine keeps tracking discreet

San Francisco – New items appear in the wearable technology market almost every week. But Shine, by former Apple CEO John Sculley’s start-up compan...

Wearable Technology : Self Quants : Wearables

Big Ideas

Vive la revolution – as France’s wine industry attracts younger consumers

France : Bordeaux : Wine

Viewpoints

CES 2023: AI Futures

From multiple you’s to emotional AI and sensor-ised worlds, we speak to experts from design agencies Seymourpowell and NewTerritory about the AI fu...

Technology : Artifical Intelligence : CES

Daily Signals

Bleach London’s ethically minded make-up range and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Bleach London’s vegan make-up, refugee camps adopt mobile money, Cabin brings bus travel to the fore, and other top stories.

Beauty : Travel : Advertising

Podcasts

Podcast: Harry Jameson on Personal Optimisation

The Future Laboratory co-founder Martin Raymond speaks to Harry Jameson, performance coach and personal trainer to athletes, celebrities and profes...

Podcast : Society : Back To The F**kture

Daily Signals

Analyse this: Holistic health in the bedroom at CES

Las Vegas – Smart measurement device manufacturer Withings has launched its Smart Body Analyzer at International CES, which enables people to take ...

CES : Body Scale : Smart Body Analyzer

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Travel & Hospitality

Global macro-shifts are driving the key travel and hospitality foresight trends for 2025. The climate crisis, a loneliness epidemic, the geopolitic...

Travel & Hospitality : Sustainability : Health & Wellness

Daily Signals

Time for a change

Paris/London – Lingerie brand Dessù explores a more nuanced femininity in its debut collection.

Dessú : Lingerie : Femininity

Daily Signals

Milan Salone 2016: Design hotel

Milan – For its seventh Handmade exhibition, Wallpaper* collaborated with designers and creatives to create products for an imagined luxury hotel.

Wallpaper* : Milan : Salone Del Mobile 2016

Daily Signals

Old-school design: Dift creates pop-up hotel and exhibition

Kortrijk, Belgium – Take one abandoned school due for demolition, add some of the world’s most respected designers and furniture brands, and t...

Arts-pitality : Biennale Interieur 2014 : Ikea

Big Ideas

For Millennials, tech creates ties that bind

Pew Research Center : Social Networks : Friendship

Viewpoints

Hacking the senses will redefine self-care

Charles Spence, a world expert in multi-sensory perception, highlights how knowledge of our senses can have a profound effect on health and wellbei...

Health : Wellness : Sensory Experience

Markets

The Luxury Matrix Stage Five: Intellectual and Poetic

What we said: ‘This is a stage of passions, journeys, adventures and deep-rooted and meaningful experiences. It is not about brands, seldom about p...

Interactive : Experiencial : Stargazing

Markets

The State of Luxury: USA 2022

Priorities are changing in the US luxury market as brands seek to court high-net-worth clients with ever-more niche experiences, spaces and care.

Luxury : Retail : Health & Wellness

Micro Trends

EQ-Homes

From calming kettles to mood-sensing fridges, brands are embedding emotional intelligence into everyday appliances, signalling a shift from smart t...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Design

Daily Signals

CES 2025 daily recap: High-tech luxury, smart textiles and wellbeing wear

Day two of CES 2025 saw panels unpack the opportunities in technology for the luxury sector as part of the event's new fashion and beauty conferenc...

Technology : Luxury : Retail

Daily Signals

Rethinking mattress design for eco-conscious sleepers

British design studio Layer has collaborated with Chinese start-up Mazzu to introduce the Mazzu Open mattress, a revolutionary step towards sustain...

Design : Wellness : Health

Daily Signals

AI tool combats gender bias in fairy tales

Researchers from Northeastern University, University of California Los Angeles, and IBM Research have developed a tool to analyse gender biases and...

AI : Animation : Fairytales

Daily Signals

Re-usable takeaway boxes that challenge mindsets

Street Food Box is a re-usable packaging innovation in response to the need for more sustainable on-the-go food containers.

Take Away : Food : Drink

Daily Signals

Soho House re-imagines the roadside motel

Mollie’s Motel & Diner is the first in a series of accessible hospitality spaces coming to motorways across the UK.

Hospitality : Travel : Luxury

Daily Signals

Stella McCartney goes beyond CSR, Alibaba caters for senior citizens

The Standard Hotel makes the most of Instagram, Samsung brings the importance of sleep to the fore, more women are choosing to become mothers.

Fashion : Hospitality : Travel

Daily Signals

Not your average Joe

Paris – AccorHotels has launched a new brand that combines the best of Airbnb with hotel and hostel service.

AccorHotels : Home-from-home Hospitality : Airbnb

Daily Signals

Olympian self-quant

Boston – The Whoop wearable system is bringing its high-level self-quantification capabilities designed for athletes to the wider market.

Whoop : Optimised Self : Wearable Tech

Big Ideas

Fit for check-in

New York – Westin Hotels & Resorts’ new brand image is designed to connect with the wellbeing market.

Hotels : New York : Fitness

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