EnglishTo celebrate London's Olympics this year, adidas debuted a concept shoe that enables wearers to read Twitter updates directly on the sneakers. The “Social Media Barricade” is a pair of decked-out sneakers that are emedded with an LCD screen. To see it in action today,
Following it's interactive wall in South Korea last year, UK supermarket Tesco has set the bar high in online grocery innovation with a new interactive virtual shopping wall at Gatwick Airport. The grocer has kicked off a two-week trial of 10 interactive shopping screens designed to
Cafe Joe is one of the biggest coffee chains in Israel, and has recently launched an interactive advertisement in local newspapers. The print ad is embedded with a QR code, which readers can scan and receive information on their mobile phones to where the nearest
The latest celebrity ad for the iPhone 4S virtual assistant Siri features film director Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas) in the back of a yellow NYC taxi. The TV commercial follows previous ones starring Samuel L. Jackson, Zooey Deschanel, and John Malkovich. Scorsese uses Siri
British design students have created a digital display system for train cars to give riders a view of the outside world they’re passing. The 'Canopy' concept uses flexible electrophoretic (“e-paper”) display panels that would attach to the roof of a train car. The panels would show
Design magazine Dezeen has created a new Pinterest board that’s dedicated to shops, including the best boutiques, bakeries, bookstores, and even florists. The growing collection allows users to browse through shops from around the world that have interesting store layout, or a great retail concept. These include the Tokyo Bike store with its clean and neat layout, the Aesop store with its wall-to-ceiling of falling boxes, and the minimalistic Pleats Please store, just to name a few.
Usually public toilets, and chemical toilets in particular, never reserve nice surprises. You get in, and you try to get out as soon as possible. The story of this chemical toilet installed in Milan during the recent Design Week is different. It’s an IKEA toilet
Elle has launched a shoppable trend guide on Facebook in the latest of several ecommerce initiatives within the magazine industry. The guide, embedded as a tab on Elle's FaceBook page invites shoppers to navigate across six editorially chosen spring trends, including floral, nautical and ladylike. Users can click “love,”
Instead of adding another “happy birthday!” comment to your friends’ Facebook walls, a startup called Wrapp wants you to post a free gift certificate for stores such as Gap, Sephora or H&M — as long as your friend meets the brand’s target demographic. Brands offer gift