[via PSFK]
The JR EAST railway company of Japan has set up a vending machine in one of its central Tokyo stations that can detect a customer’s sex and age and recommend drinks based on these factors. The system has a 47-inch touch panel and a camera for detection; once the customer stands [...]
[via Luxist]
You need a cup of coffee, and you need it fast? Then start up your Ferrari espresso machine! This machine is designed by Ilgar Rustamov, and while it remains a concept at present, knowing Ferrari’s penchant for churning out branded stuff, it could be only a matter of time before we see [...]
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No Comments » Forbes Russia has posted an interesting article with the most prominent street BTL-campaigns. Here is the brief for you, it’s a must-read one, don’t miss it
1. Flyvertising at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Client: Eichborn Publishing House
Agency: Jung von Matt / Neckar
7,000 companies from 100 countries and 300,000 guests. That’s a hell of a bunch [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Innovations Tags: BBDO, Eichborn, flashmob, flyvertising, IQ Marketing, Jung von Matt / Neckar, mars, moscow, Mugabe, Ozon.ru, Saatchi & Saatchi, Snickers, T-Mobile, TBWAHuntLascaris, The Liverpool Street Station Dance, The Zimbabwean, Trillion Dollars Campaign No Comments » [Via POPSOP]
SapientNitro, a customer experience company, unveiled the world’s first smile-activated vending machine —an ice cream truck for the digital age — for Unilever. This ice cream vending machine is an industry-leading innovative brand experience and part of Unilever’s new ice cream mission to encourage people everywhere to share life’s [...]
Zalim Posted in Innovations, Marketing Tags: ice-cream, Rock in Rio, samsung, SapientNitro, Share Happy, Unilever, vending machine No Comments » Starbucks makes a move to draw some more positive hype. They have designed a mug claiming to be the first ceramic mug to be recycled.
The mug is manufactured at a zero-waste factory in Japan. The raw material is the old mugs and dishes that can no longer be used for their purposes.
Designer: Alice Friedel
Creative Manager: [...]
PSFK reports: A coffee vending machine manufacturer Saeco from Belgium has developed a machine that can remember your taste in coffee.
You just need to touch the fingerprint scanner on the machine (it’s called Xelsis Digital ID) and it will remember your preferences for future. Next time you touch the scanner it will load your user [...]
Zalim Posted in Innovations Tags: Coffee, coffee machine, Innovations, Saeco, vending machine, Xelsis 1 Comment » Remember my last post about a scented online banner? Here’s another thing that you can sniff at
The billboard features a huge piece of steak stuck on a fork, declaring “flavor is actual size”, and it smells of hickory BBQ, the scent developed by ScentAir. The billboard emits scents from 7 [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Design, Innovations Tags: Advertising, billboard, Bloom store, Design, ScentAir, scented billboard No Comments » This is really interesting.
ID/TBWA had the brief to advertise Kaiak’s new scent in online banners. And they managed to make the online banner pretty much real – you could literally smell it!
There was a custom hardware made and attached to computers at some 15 LAN houses in Brazil. The agency created a special banner that [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Innovations Tags: Advertising, fragrance, ID/TBWA, Innovations, Kaiak, scented banner 1 Comment » Interesting piece of design from Heo Jeong Im. Cappucino Coffee Stick is a new packaging for instant coffee. Now you can just pour water in a cup and put the stick inside. The coffee is on the stick and it is ready as your dip the stick in your cup. The stick can naturally serve [...]
Zalim Posted in Design, Innovations Tags: Cappucino Coffee Stick, Coffee, Design, Heo Jeong Im, packaging No Comments » A great concept from German design studio Biegert & Funk. The clock called Qlocktwo tells time in words contained in a quadratic matrix of alphabets. Some of the characters in the matrix glow, which is enabled by a built-in brightness sensor, and form words that describe time in five minute intervals, while [...]
Zalim Posted in Design, Innovations Tags: Bieger&Funk, clock, Design, Innovations, Qlocktwo No Comments » 
