When the mobile phone debuted decades ago, it was a device primarily used by police, taxi drivers and truckers or the wealthiest in business. Today, cell phones are so pervasive that you cannot walk five steps without seeing a person talking or texting. Better yet the devices have more capabilities and at a fraction of the cost of the phone of yesterday. Today's mobile phone have talking, texting, web, gaming and video capabilities. And the good news is you don't have to break the bank for your mobile devices.
To better understand social consumer, we asked 1500 participant about the product and services they had most recently researched online and how they went about it. We found that depending on the product or service, channel may have more or less influence on a social consumer's decision to purchase. Influence was measured as the degree to which each channel has impacted the consumer view of the product or service as part
Don’t get too comfortable with the keys you click while typing on your computer. Soon that keyboard you’re using may be made of touch-sensitive glass. The same can be said about your computer mouse too. Inventor Jason Giddings believes it’s time for computers peripherals to grow to the next level, and he hopes to achieve this with his new multi-touch keyboard and mouse, made from tempered glass suspended over a metal base. The multi-touch mouse from Giddings Product Development is made from tempered glass and a metal base, with technology that uses light and a camera to detect commands. Giddings
Read MoreChances are you had to look something up recently, so you Googled it. As simple as that may seem, some argue Google is changing the way we think and remember. Why does this happen? How does it impact the brain? Google has definitely made our lives so easy. Information that would need days to gather referring books are now just a single click away. But like every medicine having some side effects, does dependency on Google also have some side effects? Find out: via
The amazing Dave Cremin performs an impossible card trick in Times Square. We created the card trick project to show off our 3D creature effects skills. From the beginning the video was designed to appear completely candid, as if someone just walked up and started recording a street magician with their cellphone. In reality, the footage was shot with two Canon 5D Mark II cameras on two separate days. The majority of the people seen in this video were not planted in the audience. Other than the magician, only three of the dozens of people seen in the video were working
Read MoreIn 2011 ringtones seems like a distant memory. You probably haven't downloaded one in years, and the idea of having a hit radio song play every time your phone rings makes you shudder with embarrassment. Yet ringtones are, some how far from dead. Somewhere out there, millions of people are still buying ringtones like it's 2005. This Music Production School infographic takes a look at the still-kicking ringtone ecosystem. Not surprisingly, the ringtone industry has been in decline since 2006, when it totaled about $4.5 billion in global sales. Some predict it will be extinct by 2016. via
Simply search the words “let it snow” and watch what happens. Of course, your search results will contain video of that old favorite song, but what’s that? Snowflakes falling in your browser? The Google bar freezing up? Keep watching as your browser appears to be filling up with snow, and then you can skate around with your mouse, where your browser acts just like a frozen lake, showing the path your cursor has taken. Want to start over? Simply click the “defrost” button. The first hit is the Christmas carol ‘let it snow’ by Dean Martin.
What the Trend – a HootSuite Media company – analyzed 207,518 Twitter trends which surfaced in 2011 to determine the top trending topics of 2011. To capture the conversation, localized trend information was compiled every 5 minutes from Twitter and the What the Trend community added context with user-contributed definitions. Reviewing the resulting list gives a unique view of social media’s impact on all aspects of culture. To compile this report, the leading trends were grouped by topic (i.e. #jan25 and #egypt were both added to the Egypt Protest topic) in order to create Top 10 lists for movies, US TV
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