Amazon Alexa

AI Edu-play-tion

Micro Trends

AI Edu-play-tion

Meet the innovators using generative artificial intelligence to re-imagine screen-free educational play time for children.
AI : Gen Alpha : Education
Amazon’s Explore with Alexa brings conversational AI to kids

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Amazon’s Explore with Alexa brings conversational AI to kids

Amazon is expanding its Amazon Kids+ content to include a conversational AI tool that makes Alexa questions more educational and entertaining.
Youth : Technology : Education
Amazon’s Build It democratises product development

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Amazon’s Build It democratises product development

The online retailer’s latest crowdfunding project, Build It, encourages consumers to vote on its next Alexa-enabled product.
Technology : Retail : Amazon Alexa
Mica’s Moon School is an interactive Alexa game

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Mica’s Moon School is an interactive Alexa game

Media agency MediaCom has claimed an industry first with its use of voice technology to create an interactive storytelling game.
Media : Technology : Entertainment
Alexa is now able to express emotion

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Alexa is now able to express emotion

Amazon’s latest voice-tech capabilities allow the AI tool to express human-like personality traits.
Technology : Media : Amazon Alexa
Subconscious Shoppers

Communities

Subconscious Shoppers

Three technology-driven US consumers invite us into their homes to explain how their relationship with AI-driven devices is evolving.
Retail : Voice-assistant : Subconscious Shoppers
Amazon integrates voice devices to prefab homes

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Amazon integrates voice devices to prefab homes

The retailer is working with Plant Prefab to kit out sustainable, prefabricated houses with a range of its smart devices.
Technology : Voice Assistant : Smart Home
Alexa will soon guess what you’re thinking

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Alexa will soon guess what you’re thinking

At a recent event, Amazon announced that Alexa will soon replicate human curiosity and intuition.
Technology : Voice Devices : Intelligence
Alexa enters the dorm room

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Alexa enters the dorm room

Saint Louis University (SLU) has become the first college to integrate Amazon Alexa devices into every student residence.
Technology : Youth : Education
Controlling a film with your mind, Equinox launches sleep coaching

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Controlling a film with your mind, Equinox launches sleep coaching

The MOMENT is an interactive film responding to brain activity, Equinox wants to train gym-goers to sleep better, Sephora launches free beauty clas...
Technology : Wellness : Beauty
A luxury charity pop-up and reviving the art of conversation

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A luxury charity pop-up and reviving the art of conversation

Harrods demonstrates its charitable good, Norn is a members’ club for conversation, Cbeebies uses ASMR to relax kids.
Fashion : Technology : Luxury
Morality Recoded

Macro Trends

Morality Recoded

Our traditional moral frameworks of religion and family are declining. Institutions, brands and consumers are now re-evaluating the power of innova...
Technology : Retail : Mobility
Voice Retail Market

Markets

Voice Retail Market

As voice-enabled devices continue to enter our homes, and consumers become increasingly comfortable with the idea of talking to machines, retaile...
Retail : Technology : Digital
Implicit Inclusivity

Design Directions

Implicit Inclusivity

Designers are recognising the needs of disabled consumers, creating assistive products that are reduced to their most essential elements, with mini...
Technology : Design : Fashion
 How can smaller brands enter the home assistant market?

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How can smaller brands enter the home assistant market?

Global – As such devices become more common, brands are exploring ways to reach new markets and demographics.
Technology : Digital : Advertising
Amazon’s Alexa-enabled Dash Wand helps to streamline food shopping

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Amazon’s Alexa-enabled Dash Wand helps to streamline food shopping

US – The voice-activated device lets consumers find recipes, order groceries and look up restaurants.
Technology : Retail : E-commerce
Amazon unveils its first touchscreen Alexa

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Amazon unveils its first touchscreen Alexa

US – The Echo Show marks a significant shift for the brand by combining voice-recognition with a conventional monitor.
Digital : Technology : Amazon
Preview: Neo-kinship

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Preview: Neo-kinship

As the nuclear family disappears and more fluid and complex forms of kinship take its place, technology is not only helping to run the household, i...
Artifical Intelligence : Future Family : Relationships
Voice of wellness

Big Ideas

Voice of wellness

US – The HealthTap app has introduced voice-recognition technology that responds to users empathetically.
HealthTap : The E-motional Economy : Health
Home smart home

Big Ideas

Home smart home

US – A new report by McKinsey examines the proliferation of connected devices and the state of the connected home market.
​McKinsey : Internet Of Things : Smart Homes
CES 2017 Review: Part 1

Big Ideas

CES 2017 Review: Part 1

Now in its 50th year, CES attracted almost 4,000 exhibitors to Las Vegas who presented the latest in technology, from far-reaching concept ca...
CES 2017 : Amazon Alexa : Consumer Electronics Show
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