Discovery Channel: Naked and afraid

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Alien / AMD: Meet Walter

Twentieth Century Fox’s (FOX) much anticipated, action-thriller, “Alien: Covenant,” hitting theaters May 19th, marks visionary director Ridley Scott’s return to the universe he created. Continuing to enthrall fans, FOX has tapped Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to be the official CPU/GPU partner for “Alien: Covenant” and today will release its branded short, “Meet Walter” that stars Michael Fassbender as his character Walter. As the centerpiece of the #MeetWalter campaign, this short introduces Walter, the latest synthetic android with intelligence powered by AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), RyzenTM and RadeonTM processors, and manufactured by the film’s fictional corporation Weyland-Yutani. The short, conceived by Ridley Scott and 3AM, produced by RSA Films with technology partner AMD and directed by Luke Scott, showcases Walter as the world’s most advanced synthetic companion, created to serve and designed to help achieve a better human experience with intelligence. As part of the campaign, a limited-edition poster debuts online and at SXSW, plus a Twitter activation allows users to tweet #MeetWalter to receive a personalized video autoreply from Walter.

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Top 40 Transportation Trends in March – From Maternity Taxi Services to In-Car Gas Payments (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) Some of the March 2017 transportation ideas like Bluetooth bus tickets, voice-activated vehicle controls and high-flying ridesharing services might seem like future innovations, but many of these…

Top 30 Interactive Trends in March – From Gamified Marathon Events to Million-Dollar Chip Contests (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The top March 2017 interactive marketing ideas sees brands experimenting with new ways to encourage consumers to interact with their products, either online on in person. This includes videos that…

United Way: Spread the words

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Zac Posen: Betty goes A-Posen

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Autonomous Transportation Pods – Volkswagen's Sedric Car Pod Concept Looks to the Future of Driving (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Volkswagen is one automotive manufacturer that is now imagining how vehicles of the future might look and function with a new car pod concept that it is calling ‘Sedric.’

Sedric (SElf-…

SXSW 2017: Os novos oráculos

Como a inteligência artificial interfere radicalmente na forma como percebemos e nos relacionamos com o mundo

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SXSW Day-One Notebook: Fewer Brands, More Politics


FBI Director James Comey had to cancel his planned trip to the SXSW Conference, citing “scheduling conflicts” that definitely had nothing to do with trying to clear the agency of tapping Donald Trump’s phones during the campaign. Delta offered people on my overbooked flight $800 each to find some other way to Austin from New York. And other flights were canceled outright as some hopefully final winter weather messed up long-planned itineraries. But Day One of SXSW got underway anyway, with thousands of attendees again on hand to line up for badges, food, panels and parties. — Nat Ives

TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP

If the first day of panels was any indication of how the rest of the tech, film and music confab will play out, there will be plenty of Trump analyzing, questioning and, unsurprisingly for this crowd, bashing. At the center: how news organizations are covering a Trump presidency. CNN’s Jake Tapper told attendees that when he frames questions for the air, he thinks about whether his kids be proud of him. And looking ahead already to the 2020 presidential election, Tapper said there needs to be more coverage of policy in a way that helps people understand what it means and less focus on all of the controversy. — Jeanine Poggi

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SXSW 2017: Onde estamos? Pra onde vamos?

E, principalmente, “como vamos consertar isso?”

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SXSW 2017: Mar calmo nunca fez bom marinheiro

Treinando as habilidades criativas na agitação de Austin

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Seniority-Flagship Store by Insiya Pithawala

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Insiya Pithawala

Insiya Pithawala

Insiya Pithawala is a spatial experience designer based in Mumbai. She got her Design degree in the field of Retail and Exhibition Design from MIT institute of Design, an esteemed Institution in Pune, India. She is a retail design specialist and have worked for one of India’s leading design firms, Restore Design, Bangalore. She has designed stores for brands like Zivame, Barbeque Nation, Imagica, Van Heusen, etc. She is currently working as a freelance professional in the file of spatial and experience design.

Seniority is India’s first destination created especially for all senior citizens, designed by the talented Insiya Pithawala. They carry a vast and specially curated product portfolio that provides comfort and convenience for all seniors and their caregivers. The store is made in an existing bungalow in a quaint area in the city of Pune, India instead of opting for a standard retail format on a high street. The aim was to seamlessly blend the retail aspects into a home environment to create a comfortable and positive space that the seniors feel comfortable walking into. The look and feel of the space is kept simple using white as a base, highlighted with a fresh green to brighten up the space and the wooden elements used to add warmth.

The floor plan is modified to make it more open and greenery is added in little pockets to bring the feeling of the outdoors, indoors. The central skylight is used as a focal point as it emancipates light throughout the entire room and adorns a colorful origami installation to add some spunk in the space. The product placement and fixtures are planned in a way that highlight the positive products and showcase the negative products in a positive light. The fixtures are modular so as to accommodate all the different types and sizes of products.

The store serves an experience center for the customers to try the products before purchasing. The store also serves as a space where the seniors can drop in and spend some time with like-minded individuals, be part of a community and maybe watch a movie or take part in a weekly workshop. They have several breakout spaces that serve as activity areas. All the furniture is movable and the space can be transformed to host the respective event.

The interiors are designed keeping in mind the various guidelines for creating a senior friendly physical environment. The entire store is designed to be wheelchair accessible along with seating areas at regular intervals and at the point of sale for seniors that have difficulty in standing/walking for a long period of time. Anti-glare & anti-slip finishes are used to reduce strain. Visible contrasts and color blocking are used to define the different functional areas in the store.

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Snapchat Pornography to Test Advertisers’ Tolerance for Risk

GroupM, which oversees billions of digital-advertising dollars, sent its clients a memo warning that ads may run before or after explicit content on Snapchat.

SXSW: Trump Might Not Be Completely Paranoid When It Comes to Surveillance


Consumers have to take an active part in protecting their own privacy as connected devices proliferate, but tech marketers and their employees can play a role as well, privacy advocates said at a SXSW Conference talk about the Fourth Amendment and technology on Friday.

Scenes of people parting with that privacy have come into focus lately with reports of international arrivals in the United States, including U.S. citizens, being asked to provide their smartphone passwords before they could leave the airport.

“We’re carrying more and more of ourselves that is searchable when we cross a border,” said Mike Godwin, a media attorney (and creator of “Godwin’s Law”). “I’ve traveled internationally a lot and I come back in the country and I leave the country, and I find myself increasingly thinking about what is on my computer and what is on my devices as I cross borders.”

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Fiction: A Refugee Crisis in a World of Open Doors

In Mohsin Hamid’s novel “Exit West,” refugees flee war and chaos through any door they can find.

Friday Odds and Ends

-Matter Unlimited teamed up with director collective whitelist to launch this “Push” for Merck, promoting its “Merck For Mothers” initiative for International Women’s Day (video above).

-Bay area DNA sequencing tech startup Helix selected San Francisco agency Eleven as its agency of record.

-Four female W+K vets are among the creators of Super Good, a platform to “fight Trump every day.”

-Sid Lee Montreal launched a “Street Swatches” OOH campaign for Canadian home supply retailer Réno-Dépôt.

-Independent Norfolk, Virginia-based digital agency Grow hired Jason Sutterfield as head of production.

-Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary studio Golden added Ross Cooper to its directorial roster. 

Verizon Ventures and R/GA collaborated to launch the Verizon Media Tech Venture Studio.

-Los Angeles-based production studio Concrete + Clay added photography and directing duo Peden + Munk to its roster.

Connectivity-Enabling Switches – The 'Kancy' Wireless Smart Switch Can be Used with Almost Anything (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The ‘Kancy’ wireless smart switch comes as a versatile piece of technology that can be used to enable connectivity on virtually anything within the home. This makes it possible to turn…

Domo com experiência imersiva representa o Brasil no SXSW 2017

Com curadoria de Fernando Meirelles, espaço projeto uma série de filmes em 360°

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