Industrial designer Marc Newson has released his first product after joining Apple last month—surprisingly, it has nothing to do with gadgets. In collaboration with Dutch brewing company Heineken and technology company Krups, Newson has designed ‘The SUB’, a sleek and compact draft beer machine that lets you enjoy a cold pint of draught beer at […]
The Subway restaurant chain announced that it will launch NFC-based mobile payments nationwide in the U.S. on October 1st with Softcard, the mobile commerce joint venture created by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless. Softcard users can use their mobile phones to experience a new way to pay and save at more than 26,000 Subway locations […]
The people of Brooklyn and Manhattan may have been slightly taken a back recently when quenching their thirst at one of the many water fountains. Rather than the usual experience, pedestrians found that the water dispensers actually started talking to them. “We put it in a busy public space where it wouldn’t seem out of […]
With this new app, you no longer need to fumble for your cards and cash at the payment counter in Starbucks. ‘Wearbucks’ is an Android Wear app that lets you have a fuss-free experience whenever you pay for your drinks at Starbucks. To use, simply install the free app into your Android Wear device, such […]
Coca-Cola Enterprises has created a virtual assistant as part of a new digital shopper marketing trial to engage retailers and drive awareness of its 2014 ‘Share a Coke’ campaign. The assistant, called Isabelle, will be used to update retailers visiting Dhamecha cash and carry depots in London on the drinks company’s summer plans for the […]
Coca-Cola is making in-home 3D-printing as simple as making toasts with a new tech piece that comes as part of its Ekocycle brand initiative, centered around innovative recycling and sustainability. Ekocycle, launched by Coca-Cola and celebrated artist will.i.am back in 2012, now presents the Ekocycle Cube, a small-scale machine that “bakes” smaller items out of […]
Beck’s New Zealand presented “the world’s first playable poster” to celebrate its dedication to music. The beer brand that has been turning beer into art since 1874, has developed a street poster that played and remixed music when touched. The piece arrived as part of a broader campaign that is unleaded on the brand’s Facebook […]
The Coca-Cola Company’s innovative fountain dispensing platform, Coca-Cola Freestyle, welcomes three new dispensers that will significantly expand the number of customer locations suited for the technology. The new units offer the same elements that have made Coca-Cola Freestyle popular with consumers and valuable to customers – unparalleled beverage choice including more low- and no-calorie options, […]
Have you dreamed of a raspberry lemon Mountain Dew, a Diet Pepsi flavored with vanilla and strawberry or a Brisk Iced Tea with a splash of cherry? Now if you can dream it, you can drink it with Pepsi Spire — a portfolio of innovative fountain beverage dispensers that allow consumers to create more than […]
It is a known fact: water is life. Without it, we humans will not be able to survive. Some of us take it for granted, but there are places in the world where clean drinking water is not always accessible. To help these “at-risk populations,” DDB New York and Water Is Life have teamed up […]