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Sonos Says Music Industry About to Explode Again, And It's Ready

Sonos Says Music Industry About to Explode Again, And It's Ready | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

When Sonos unveiled its first connected speakers over 10 years ago, it may have seemed a bit gutsy. At the time, the idea that Wi-Fi would blanket every home and serve as reliable way to pipe music from room to room wasn't necessarily a given. But having checked off its first big bet as a safe one, the company is ready to roll the dice on another unconventional idea: The music industry is about to explode again. And increasingly, it's betting, music will be even more integrated into our everyday lives.

 

This isn't to say that record labels will see their profits return to pre-Napster levels—Indeed the entire structure of the music industry is fractured across many more players now—but according to Sonos's chief marketing officer Joy Howard, the rise of paid subscription services will lead to a new phase of the music industry. And the streaming boom is only just getting started.

 

"In the first six months of this year, the number of paid subscriptions have doubled," Howard said at a session hosted by Fast Company as part of its 2016 Innovation Festival in New York City. "That’s the fastest that they’ve ever grown. Now people are saying that in the next 15 years, the music industry will double in size across the entire ecosystem."...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Over a decade ago, Sonos smartly bet on music-over-Wi-Fi. Now CMO Joy Howard looks ahead to a future where music is built into every home.

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Harry Potter Is Fiction, but Invisibility Cloak(ing Device)s Are Real

Harry Potter Is Fiction, but Invisibility Cloak(ing Device)s Are Real | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Hey, where'd you go?


University of Rochester researchers have developed — take a breath — a “three-dimensional, transmitting, continuously multidirectional cloaking” device.That pileup of adjectives basically means the “perfect paraxial” cloak makes an object invisible, and it stays invisible even when the viewer isn’t looking straight at it. That’s an improvement over early cloaking efforts where the abracadabra effect is ruined by as little as a head tilt.


And the scientists pulled it off with relatively cheap and easily found materials, specifically a set of four lenses set at just the right distance to bend light around an object.


The new research, submitted to the journal Optics Express and available on arXiv.org, is the latest in a growing body of studies exploring various approaches to making objects appear to vanish into thin air....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Captain Kirk to Enterprise. Invisibility cloaking could soon be a reality. Cool!

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September 21, 2014 10:57 AM
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How Smart Devices Can Be Disruptive without Being Intrusive

How Smart Devices Can Be Disruptive without Being Intrusive | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The key to a gadget’s ubiquity is balancing both function and design, so the device can enhance someone’s lifestyle without requiring them to change their behavior…too much.


I was lucky enough to spend 17 years of my career at HP, mostly with the PC and printer business, at a time when we were creating new businesses and taking new ideas to market at a breakneck pace Some of the basic rules


I learned back then became extremely relevant when I joined Livescribe. Right away, we shifted our product design to embrace smartphones and tablets given the ubiquity and power of modern mobile devices....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

The secret when it comes to wearables? The gadgets that are winning are not only innovative, they also integrate into people’s lives without being intrusive.

Marco Favero's curator insight, September 21, 2014 11:05 AM

aggiungi la tua intuizione ...

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5 Design Jobs That Won't Exist in the Future | Fast  Company

5 Design Jobs That Won't Exist in the Future | Fast  Company | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Organ designers, chief drone experience designers, cybernetic director. Those are some of the fanciful new roles that could be created by the global design industry in the next few years.


But what about current design roles? How will they favor over the next 15 years? Will every company by 2030 have a chief design officer, or will they all go extinct? Should a generation of creatives who grew up worshipping Apple's Jonathan Ive put all their eggs in the industrial design basket?


We talked to a dozen design leaders and thinkers from companies such as Frog, Artefact, and Ideo to find out which design jobs could die out in the next 15 years, and which could grow. There's no empirical evidence behind these picks, so they shouldn't be taken too seriously. Still, they represent the informed opinions of people who get paid to think about the future....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Will you be a designosaur in the near future? Interesting to speculate in this Fast Company article.

Marion's curator insight, January 13, 2017 12:05 PM

Design is meant to evolve. From a cosmetic role located at the end of the innovation process, its going to instill much more strategically throughout all the touchpoints a company has with its users.

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This Adaptable House Reshapes Itself For Your Growing Family, Or For Your Divorce

This Adaptable House Reshapes Itself For Your Growing Family, Or For Your Divorce | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The modern family is always in flux. That's why this house--with flexible walls, sliding cabinets, and moveable outlets--is easily reconfigured to meet the changing needs of our lives.


Americans spend around $300 billion each year on home renovations, adding to the construction industry's giant carbon footprint. But what if houses could reshape themselves as needed, so people could add a room or change the size of a kitchen without bringing in bulldozers or building new walls?


The Adaptable House, part of a new development in Denmark, is designed to change over time. If a family has kids and wants to add a room or make a living room bigger, the house can expand. If a grandparent moves in, the family can slide walls around to add another room. The house is even designed to split in two in the case of divorce....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Denmark's Adaptable House is definitely a sign of the times.

aitouaddaC's curator insight, September 26, 2014 5:01 AM

Ou comment pousser les murs d'une bibliothèque ?

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Leather Fashion Scoops's curator insight, September 26, 2014 7:39 AM

somethings really are great and are of worth sharing 

 

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Never Do Laundry Again With These 4 Gee-Whiz Gadgets | Fast Company

Never Do Laundry Again With These 4 Gee-Whiz Gadgets | Fast Company | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Clean towels in seconds! A global design competition reveals our shared frustration with smelly socks.


Hoarding stacks of quarters and schlepping bags of dirty laundry may soon be footnotes in the history books, if product designers can realize their visions for better fabric care.


This year the annual design competition sponsored by Swedish  appliance maker Electrolux has elicited a range of ideas for saving lazy urbanites a trip to the laundromat, from a system that cleans your clothes using a system of “purified air with silver ions” to something involving “jelly and vibration."...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Memo to my kids... ;-)

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