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- Luxury Goods August 2010
The style spies
Monitoring the markets and working in the office all day leaves little time for a professional working man to stay in style. Yes, nipping off to a newsstand and buying a fashion magazine to read is an option. However, male fashion fans are finding it's much easier to visit their favourite websites, and get instant help from a willing army of fashion bloggers, who act as style spies.
- Technology
Into the wired
Heading into the great outdoors used to be about getting away from it all, facing nature head on and enduring – even relishing – all the hardships that came along with it. While the latter is still partly true (we still face nature head on, but we've found ways to make the hardships less… hard), today’s outdoor enthusiast can (and oftentimes does) stay just as connected with the world as they would in a downtown net café.
- Technology
Desktop destroyers
It’s clearly the age of mobile technology in which laptops, notebooks and the recent advent of hybrid tablet devices like the iPad, of which 3 million were sold within the first 80 days of its US launch, appear to be ruling the IT roost. With tablets estimated to account for 23% of all US PC sales by 2015, and sales of mobile PCs estimated to account for over 68% of all PCs sold worldwide by 2014, the writing seems to be on the wall.
Are the days of the desktop, the predecessor of these new fangled devices, literally numbered?
- Technology August 2010
Magic Mushrooms
Mushrooms aren’t known to inspire the most exciting of dialogues (except perhaps among chefs), but to the numerous fans of solar energy, the growing legion of wave farmers, and the squadrons of Don Qui-eco-xotes tilting about their windmills, the humble fungus could make a significant mark in cleaning our environment and providing alternative energy sources.
- Healthcare August 2010
Obesity: A weight on your mind?
For many countries around the world, summer is in full force. This means lighter clothing and perhaps a holiday involving swimwear of some sort. Weight and body image questions inevitably arise as people prepare to expose the seasonally unexposed and Synovate seeked to find the answers in its third Infact Obesity.
