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In this trendwatching podcast, Cathi Bond finds this puzzle alarm clock, and this alarm clock that’s superloud and shakes the bed! (Both at bimbambanana) And this bible inspirational clock (via UrbanTrend). A sign that we are all really sleep-deprived?
Meanwhile, Nora sees a couple of recent notes about VOIP: Reuters reports that Japan Communications is going [...]

Published: 7 months ago
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In this trendwatching podcast, Nora Young talks about the virtual desktop, Jooce.Cathi Bond describes the community-based art of the British art group, Proboscis.Nora Young refers to this Cscout article on time-based products at McDonald’s in Japan.

Published: 7 months ago
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In this trendwatching podcast, Cathi Bond points to two cool turntables: one, designed like a tiny VW van that ‘drives’ around your vinyl, and one, that converts vinyl to mp3s. (via ubergizmo)
Meanwhile, Nora Young talks about some of the trends she spotted on a recent trip to South Beach. She visited the Marimekko store, and [...]

Published: 7 months ago
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In this trendwatching podcast, Nora Young takes the new search tool, seachme, out for a spin. She thinks it’s part of a bigger trend towards ’snapshot’ displays that let you better manage masses of data.Meanwhile, Cathi Bond on a product she found at medgadget: this new, commercially available test, that looks for genetic markers associated with bipolar disorder. [...]

Published: 9 months ago
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In this trendwatching podcast, Cathi has two medical updates. Eureka Alert
has an interesting take on a non-invasive diagnostic tool for detecting surface cancers, and engadget has a story on a camera that’s implantable in a prosthetic eye.
Meanwhile, Nora is wondering about the future of social networking, and whether one option is niche networks built around [...]