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... installation in the small city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.The Museum of Selfies This spring, visitors of The Museum of Selfies outside of LA in Glendale explored the origin of the beloved and loathed cultural phenomenon through the lens of art, history, technology, and culture while taking some selfies of their own amid the museum’s share-worthy backgrounds and installations. The interactive pop-up space explored the history of the selfie, which reportedly dates back 40,000 years ...

ProPlay

... interests starting at younger ages than did the Boomer parents of Ys. This isn’t to say that they are cynical, but they are indeed pragmatic about the need to stand out among their equally ambitious and gifted peers. They don’t necessarily want to compete, but they do want to find their niche. Moreover, as their parents are managing Ys in the workplace and seeing firsthand the challenges ahead, they are encouraging their Z offspring to take a different approach. Zs, having grown up with technology and ...

Scene Stealers

... the makeup to technology products, in genuine ways that serve to bring fans closer to their creation.ACTION ITEMSYoung consumers want to absorb as much as possible about the entertainment they love. Brands can further satisfy their fandom by creating additional entertainment about the creation of their properties.Youth feel incomplete after they’ve finished consuming content they love. Brands can extend the life of their properties at low cost by offering materials about the making from ...

Doctor Who?

... burn patients to supplement the painkillers they're given. Users are transported into a world in which they're flying through a virtual canyon while throwing snowballs at penguins and snowmen. The creators have found that patients playing the game during wound-care sessions reported up to 50% less pain than those using other methods. Inspired by the success of SnowWorld, the startup Firsthand Technology was born to create new immersive methods of pain management, including the VR game Cool!, which ...

GPS (Global Positioning Success)

... explored the universal theme of love. Using facial recognition technology that can detect the shape of a user’s lips through their webcam, Google created an online experience that allowed people to send digital love letters, sealed with virtual replications of their unique kiss. Location data was also incorporated, enabling participants to view their messages’ journeys in 3D, complete with local landmarks and StreetView images. - 4. FOSTER ONE-TO-ONE CONNECTIONS - Ys have never known a time in which ...

Well Intentioned

... healthy living, developing good habits now rather than planning to break bad habits later. Even younger Ys are observing how their bodies are aging as one 26-year-old guy noted, and by their 30s, they are attuned to “getting their body back” as a 30-year-old woman told us. They are hyper-aware of their wellness as they age, understanding that staying healthy will only get more challenging in the years ahead. This, coupled with the current integration of health and technology, leaves many Ys feeling ...

IRL (In Real Live)

... pop-ups. Youth are constantly in search of ways to make ordinary days feel more exciting (see #Celebrate), and getting to consume content in this manner is certainly more notable than saying one stayed in all weekend bingeing a show. And as the production quality of television is now on par with that of cinema, it’s only fitting that displaying shows in this manner with more state-of-the-art technology and discussing them as cultural events is the next iteration for their delivery.I would be ...

Pop Politics

... sendups, politics are served up directly alongside (and within) pop culture, making them unprecedentedly approachable—and desirable—to youth. In fact, Facebook and Twitter are among the top 10 sources of news among both U.S. and UK youth. For all the talk about the problems with device addiction stunting society’s intellect, this is one area where technology use may actually be beneficial, specifically in its ability to raise awareness. Because politics are often found in one’s ...

Short Life

... consider ways to make their products, content, and marketing materials and events more of-the-moment and ephemeral, in spirit and execution. I think there’s an interesting correlation in our minds between durability and longevity. I don’t want to be tied down by the permanence of anything, because I move around a lot. Clothes, technology, books, food, whatever—it’s all expendable. I’m just not really interested in keeping anything for too long. Maybe I’m just trying to stay current. I think I’ve always ...

POP Trends

... technology called RSVP, or Rapid Serial Visual Presentation). More than 25K developers have since signed up for a PoweredbySpritz program that will enable them to embed Spritz into their own applications and sites. Similarly buzzy are apps Velocity, Spreeder, and Syllable, which likewise use RSVP to increase users’ reading rates by a factor of five. Though experts have argued that increasing reading rates to this speed naturally decreases comprehension, persistent interest suggests that for overwhelmed ...