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Manikins and the Body Mass Index paradigm
What happens when the humans involved in commercial products and services undergo serious change? Most businesses – and the products and services they provide – involve varying mixtures of people and technology, interacting in myriads of ways. The mainstream narrative usually focuses on one end, where technology changes and develops, with all the effects and benefits this provides for the human masters and their hoped-for...
Read moreEyewear epiphany – separating frames from lenses
US company Lensabl is rethinking the business model for eyewear – separating frames and lenses, and opting for tech over design Eyewear frames aren’t much use without lenses to look through (unless it’s a fashion shoot, of course). Lenses aren’t much use without a frame to position them in front of your eyes. So it’s hardly surprising that frames and lenses have had interwoven fates...
Read moreThe Habit model for nutritional nirvana – from science to personalised service
Necessity becomes a service – Habit turns nutrition around and makes it personal, empowering and attractive Nutrition used to be “scientific” – an abstract standard we measure ourselves against, the realm of research labs and men in white coats telling us what’s a fact and what isn’t. It was hardly a business – except when there were all kinds of weird and wonderful “cures” to...
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