Slashcasters, a new breed of pitchmen for the digital age of retail
Futurist Thomas Frey: I was recently asked to do the keynote talk at a retailer conference in Orlando, Florida speaking on the topic of what the future of retail may hold. At one point in the conversation, the caller made the comment that one of the biggest problems in retail is that consumers are evolving faster than retailers can adapt.
Continue reading… “Introducing the Slashcasters”
Allowing teens to drink backfires.
Parents begin to worry as prom night approaches. They are worried about what might happen during after hour parties. Some parents might be tempted to try to teach their high schoolers to drink responsibly – by allowing them to consume alcohol under supervision.
It may never make it into everyday jet-fighter use but NASA is checking out biofuel made from chicken and beef fat.
The chicken fat fuel, known as Hydrotreated Renewable Jet Fuel, was burned in the engine of a DC-8 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center as part of its Alternative Aviation Fuels Experiment that is looking at developing all manner of biofuel alternatives to traditional Jet Propellant 8, or JP-8. The DC-8 is used as a test vehicle because its engine operations are well-documented and well-understood, NASA says…
Continue reading… “NASA Fires-Up Jet Fuel That Tastes Like Chicken”
Brown recluse spider
The brown recluse are one of the most feared spiders in North America. And now the brown recluse – or Loxosceles reclusa – spider population is growing, and predicted to expand into the northern states as a result of climate change.
Continue reading… “Brown Recluse Spider Population Boom Result of Climate Change”
Regulators are asking food makers and restaurant companies to make a choice: make your products healthier or stop advertising them to youngsters.
The Federal Trade Commission has proposed sweeping new guidelines that could push the food industry to overhaul how it advertises cereal, soda pop, snacks, restaurant meals and other foods to children.
Continue reading… “FTC Proposes Stricter Guidelines on Food Ads for Children”
Futurist Thomas Frey: When it comes to the topic of time travel, color me skeptical.
Do we even know what time is? Yes, we see the seconds clicking away on clocks, sunrise followed by sunset, tides coming in and going out, seasons changing from one to another, and little trees growing into big trees.
Continue reading… “Prize Competition #2: Viewing the Past”
People identify emotions partly by mimicking each other’s facial expressions.
Botox injections help erase wrinkles and other signs of aging. But the cosmetic procedure may impair the ability of a person to read other people’s emotions, according to a new study.
Continue reading… “Study: Botox Injections Impairs Ability to Read Emotions”
Heart attacks are more likely to happen in the morning.
Heart attacks that occur in the morning are far more dangerous than at any other time of the day, research shows.
Continue reading… “Morning Heart Attacks Are More Dangerous Than at Any Other Time of Day: Study”
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PepsiCo Inc will be launching the “social vending” machine that lets users buy each other drinks remotely. This is further proof that its decades-old rivalry with Coca-Cola Co is going ever-more high tech.
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If you like a little sugar in your morning (and late morning, and afternoon) coffee, but don’t like the calories, there’s a good chance you use one of the many artificial sweeteners on the market. But there’s plenty of evidence that these various chemical concoctions carry some scary health risks with them, and that they’re no good for the environment, either. But if you insist on indulging your sweet tooth, there’s now a smart and funny flow chart to help you out…
Continue reading… “A Funny Flow Chart to Help You Choose Your Sweetener (Or Avoid One Altogether)”
A businessman from Delhi has tattooed 305 flags of different countries on his body to promote amity among nations. Har Prakash, who also likes to call himself Guinness Rishi, hopes to get more flags inked on his body and create a new world record…
Continue reading… “Indian Man Has 305 Country Flag Tattoos to Promote World Peace”
One night, Robert Majkut had a dream. That dream was to recreate the piano in a grander form. So Robert took this whale of an idea and created this: an electric keyboard called the Whaletone…
Continue reading… “The Whaletone”
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