Cheil Spain and Samsung create new high-tech swimming cap for blind Paralympic swimmers

Cheil Spain and Samsung create new high-tech swimming cap for blind Paralympic swimmers

Cheil Spain and Samsung Electronics have developed a swimming cap incorporating the latest technology to help blind Paralympic swimmers detect when to flip turn at the end of a lane in the pool. ‘Blind Cap’, which has been developed in collaboration with the Spanish Paralympic Committee, is the first swimming cap equipped with a vibrating […]

#KurkureFamilyExpress – India’s First Food Train Sets Off

#KurkureFamilyExpress – India’s First Food Train Sets Off

A first of it’s kind train is kick-starting its journey on May 16 from Delhi along with food enthusiasts Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma hosting 40 different families over an 8-day journey across India. In today’s hyper connected world, family time has lost itself to mobile screens and television. Keeping this core insight in mind and […]

These Unwritable Receipts Let You Donate Your Signature to Fight Illiteracy

These Unwritable Receipts Let You Donate Your Signature to Fight Illiteracy

There are 781 million illiterate people worldwide who cannot even write their own names. How could UNESCO NGO Japan raise awareness and donations for this problem which is so difficult to feel ‘real’? Beacon/Leo Burnett Tokyo introduced ‘Donate Your Signature’ to let you experience the frustration of illiterate people for yourself by creating unwritable receipts […]

K9 Friends – Talent For Hire: How an animal shelter became a talent agency

[KGVID width=”600″ height=”338″]https://marcommnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/TALENT-FOR-HIRE-1080p_0.mp4[/KGVID] Research from the Oxford Humane Society tells us that less than 2 in 10 dogs are adopted from an animal shelter. All over the world, people tend to use breeders or pet stores instead of adopting from animal shelters. This behaviour is compounded by the preconception that shelter dogs are ‘damaged goods’. […]

Circus Family creates interactive light installation for New York Design Week

Circus Family creates interactive light installation for New York Design Week

Wanted Design and NYCxDESIGN invited Circus Family to create a custom-built interactive light installation for the official opening of NYCxDESIGN. In the artistic community of Industry City, the Circus Family team built an interactive LED installation, called Day & Night, exclusively designed to fit the exhibition space. During the day the pulsing light glow invited […]

Mars, Incorporated Retain Google FAB Brand / Marketer of The Year Award

Mars, Incorporated Retain Google FAB Brand / Marketer of The Year Award

Mars, Incorporated have once again been named The Google FAB Brand / Marketer of The Year at the International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards (The FAB Awards), bagging a phenomenal 18 nominations across the various categories. Bruce McColl, Global Chief Marketing Officer at Mars, Incorporated said: “We are deeply honoured to receive this prestigious award […]

Spykar collaborate with Scarecrow to prank India’s youth with ‘Blue Film Festival’

Spykar collaborate with Scarecrow to prank India’s youth with ‘Blue Film Festival’

When Indian clothing company Spykar uploaded a mysterious trailer to YouTube entitled ‘Blue Film Festival’, featuring semi-naked models, a bed covered in underwear and salacious scenes rendered indecipherable by pixels, it immediately made waves online, with #BlueFilmFestival swiftly becoming the number one Twitter trend in India. When put in its cultural context this is hardly surprising – […]

Mila make Frozen Fish come to life in Supermarket prank

Mila make Frozen Fish come to life in Supermarket prank

Through today’s technology, frozen fish can actually be better quality than “fresh fish.” New processes in the fishing industry have allowed fish to be frozen straight from the boat within hours of being caught – preserving the taste, texture and nutritional benefits – compared to fish sold at “fresh markets,” which often has a week […]