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Viewpoints

Algorithms are rewiring our tastebuds

Alon Chen, CEO and co-founder of Tastewise, on how the food intelligence platform uses data and AI to track fast-moving food trends in real time.

Food & Drink : Technology : Artificial Intelligence

News

Future Forecast 2017: Travel and Hospitality

As the year comes to an end, LS:N Global looks at the nascent trends and behaviour that will be shaping the travel and hospitality sector over the ...

Future Forecast : 2017 Trends : Travel And Hospitality

News

Food and Drink Futures Forum 2016

London – This week LS:N Global hosted our two-day Food and Drink Futures Forum, examining the latest shifts in the landscape.

Food & Drink Forum 2016 : Hughie Duffie : Sandows

Micro Trends

Pro-formance Training

Performance technology is growing up.

Wearable Tech : Self Quants : The Optimised Self

Trend Tracker

The Optimised Self

Identified by LS:N Global in 2015, The Optimised Self charts a widespread consumer quest for personal optimisation.

The Optimised Self : Wellness : Health

News

CES 2015: Swarovski introduces first wearable device

Las Vegas – Swarovski has unveiled its first piece of wearable technology jewellery.

Swarovski : Misfit Wearables : Wearable Tech

News

Function rooms: Island Retreat a perfect getaway

Design : Bedroom : Tourists

Communities

Self-Quants

Inspired by how useful data can be in measuring, monitoring and reducing the amount of energy we use and how much money we spend, a few digital pio...

Nike : Matthew Miller : Up

News

Celebrating Scandinavian modernism and how macaroni cheese affects soil health

Oh My Eyes challenges Scandinavian minimalism, Universal Everything explores human-machine collaboration, packaged goods company Annie’s celebrates...

Luxury : Food & Drink : Hospitality

News

Baby it’s cold outside: If LS:N Global made… a home

London – The LS:N Global home would have mood-enhancing technology to combat daily stresses, and enchanted objects would be integrated into the in...

Home : Technology : Interior Spaces

Micro Trends

Furniture as a Service

With consumers less willing and less able to establish permanent homes, furniture brands are having to develop products and services that don’t rel...

Retail : Furniture : Hospitality

News

The sizing revolution in e-commerce and the travel opportunities in South Africa

AccorHotels promotes inclusive hospitality, trialling male birth control, examining a future without fast food packaging,

Retail : Wellness : Food & Drink

Markets

Parenting Market

Changing family structures and gender roles, coupled with an increasingly digitally dominant world, are disrupting traditional notions of chi...

Motherhood : Parenting : Family

Micro Trends

Anti-aspirational Beauty

For years, people have been sold an idealised version of beauty. But as attitudes to appearance become more inclusive and carefree, brand language ...

Beauty : Marketing : Branding

News

Stat: Britons believe women should get more support during menopause

As women's incapacitating symptoms during perimenopause are increasingly acknowledged, new research reveals what people think about governments and...

Society : Health & Wellness : Workplace

News

Tokyo nights

Tokyo – Bunka Hostel’s grown-up aesthetic seeks to attract budget travellers with an appreciation for design.

Tokyo : Designer Bunks : Hostels

News

Mountain retreat: Norwegian hut blends in with the landscape

Norway – A new hiker’s hut in Norway combines contemporary architecture, local heritage and environmental design.The Rabothytta by Kebony, Norway &...

Norway : Hiking : Hospitality

News

Hotel suites centred on guests’ wellbeing needs

Andaz 5th Avenue, part of the Hyatt hotel group, has unveiled seven Wellness Suites to bolster guests’ mental and physical health.

Health & Wellness : Travel & Hospitality : Wellbeing

Viewpoints

Stimulating our senses could reduce food waste

In an age of flat screens and mass-produced foods, can heightened sensory experiences fix the disconnection between what we eat and how we eat it?

Food : Design : Uprooted Diets

Viewpoints

Can conspicuous conshumanism create a better future?

Why it’s time for brands to step up and help consumers show off their humane worth, rather than monetary worth, through the products and services t...

Retail : Fashion : Sustainability

Viewpoints

Could tech brands do more to combat phone addiction?

Global technology companies and app creators might be addressing technology addiction, but are they doing enough?

Digital : Technology : Smartphones

Micro Trends

Smartphone Therapies

Why consumers are swapping synthetic drugs for smartphone-based treatments.

Health : Digital : Wellness

Micro Trends

Highly Sensitive

For consumers, skin sensitivity is the new anti-ageing.

Sensitive Skin : Pollution : Skincare

News

White lies

Paris – Creative agency DDB Paris has collaborated with illustrator Tom Haugomat to create a series of print ads for Volkswagen that exam...

Tom Haugomat : Volkswagen : VW

Micro Trends

Tech Luxe

The luxury market has traditionally been slow to embrace new technology. Yet as consumers’ lives become more digital, things are changing. Increasi...

Tech Luxe : Jonathan Siboni : Activie

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