Concocting the perfect cocktail can take years of practice, but everything in life has a shortcut, and for amateur mixologists it's called the Cocktail Spinner. Imagine smashing a Magic Bullet into a salad spinner at the speed of light. This is what the resulting supernova would leave behind.
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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Mmvbt4oFjJ0/a-salad-spinner-for-cocktails-makes-martinis-stirred-n-1446559162A cheeky wink can say an awful lot—but now it can do an awful lot, too. A new range of conducting cosmetics means that you could soon be activating electronics with the blink of an eye.
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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/x9e5y_hZlmg/electronic-make-up-lets-you-activate-gadgets-by-blinkin-1446288892Kicking off her day with some promotional duties, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley showed up at the Marks & Spencer Marble Arch in London, England on Wednesday morning (October 16).
The “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” starlet was in the house for a photocall to launch her new range of Marks & Spencer lingerie, and she looked gorgeous in a black top teamed with a black and cream skirt and black heels.
In related news, it seems Rosie has really caught the fancy of One Direction’s Harry Styles, as he couldn’t shut up about her during a recent interview in Australia.
The reporter asked, "Who is the most beautiful woman in the world other than your mother, sister or girlfriend?" Harry replied, "Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, probably. It's her face."
The image that accompanied Apple’s October 22 media event invite.
Apple sent out invites to its next product-filled media event this morning, which will be held on October 22 in San Francisco. The invite teases us with “We still have a lot to cover,” written below a colorful, fall inspired Apple graphic. We’re expecting Apple to announce a number of new additions to its lineup Tuesday, including highly-anticipated iPad updates.
Signs point to a redesigned fifth generation iPad that is styled like a larger version of the iPhone 5/5s rather than previous iPads. The iPad mini is also expected to get a major upgrade with the addition of a high-resolution Retina display.
What else could we see next week? We should get a closer look at OS X Mavericks, the next big update to Apple’s desktop operating system. Along with that, the MacBook Pro should get an upgrade for 2013. We could also get a better look at the Mac Pro, which we got a sneak peek of at WWDC this summer. As with last month’s event, we don’t think Apple is going to spend any stage time on the iPod line.
Apple already updated its iMac line for this year with faster processors and 802.11ac WiFi.
We’ll be there October 22 at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to share everything Apple unveils. Stay tuned!
Fitch Ratings, one of the big three credit ratings agencies, issued a warning shot today, saying that while it affirmed the United States' AAA credit rating, it was placing it on "rating watch negative."
In other words, it was placing the country's long-term credit rating under review for a potential downgrade.
The main reason? The debacle in Washington. Remember, the last time a debt ceiling debate got this hot and heavy, S&P downgraded the U.S.'s long-term credit rating to AA-plus.
"The prolonged negotiations over raising the debt ceiling (following the episode in August 2011) risks undermining confidence in the role of the U.S. dollar as the preeminent global reserve currency, by casting doubt over the full faith and credit of the U.S.," Fitch said in a statement. "This 'faith' is a key reason why the U.S. 'AAA' rating can tolerate a substantially higher level of public debt than other 'AAA' sovereigns."
Reuters reports the U.S. Treasury said the threat from Fitch is a reminder of just how close the country is from defaulting for the first time in history.
"The announcement reflects the urgency with which Congress should act to remove the threat of default hanging over the economy," a Treasury spokesperson told Reuters.
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Consumers have the power to do more than just respond to products that companies put on the market; they can actually change and develop new markets, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
"Firm-centric models of market development view consumers as relatively passive, downstream actors, whose agency and ability to affect a market are limited to decision making in a realm of choices controlled by marketing institutions," write authors Diane M. Martin and John W. Schouten (both Aalto University). "Recently consumer culture scholars have explored the power of various kinds of consumer resistance to change markets or develop new ones."
The authors studied the emergence and growth of a new market within the motorcycle industry, the minimoto. The original minimoto is a child's minibike that has been modified significantly to be ridden and raced by adults. Minimoto aficionados are passionate about the bikes, and there is currently a thriving global market for parts to modify stock minibikes from major manufacturers such as Honda, Kawasaki, and Yamaha.
The mainstream motorcycle industry has always viewed minimotos as a niche product in a shrinking segment of dirt bikes. The authors explain the emergence of the minimoto market as a process in three stages: consumer innovation, where creative consumers mobilize available objects and other resources to overcome barriers; community formation, when creative consumers engage other people in the same activities, leading to the development of products, practices, and infrastructures; and a final stage of market emergence.
"Such organic market emergence distributes the risk and the investment of market building broadly among consumers rather than concentrating it at the level of the firm," the authors write. "And it offers insight into the kinds of actors that have the power to shift markets in fundamental ways."
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Diane M. Martin and John W. Schouten. "Consumption-Driven Market Emergence." Journal of Consumer Research: February 2014. For more information, contact John Schouten or visit http://ejcr.org/.
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ShareContact: Mary-Ann Twist
JCR@bus.wisc.edu
608-255-5582
University of Chicago Press Journals
Consumers have the power to do more than just respond to products that companies put on the market; they can actually change and develop new markets, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
"Firm-centric models of market development view consumers as relatively passive, downstream actors, whose agency and ability to affect a market are limited to decision making in a realm of choices controlled by marketing institutions," write authors Diane M. Martin and John W. Schouten (both Aalto University). "Recently consumer culture scholars have explored the power of various kinds of consumer resistance to change markets or develop new ones."
The authors studied the emergence and growth of a new market within the motorcycle industry, the minimoto. The original minimoto is a child's minibike that has been modified significantly to be ridden and raced by adults. Minimoto aficionados are passionate about the bikes, and there is currently a thriving global market for parts to modify stock minibikes from major manufacturers such as Honda, Kawasaki, and Yamaha.
The mainstream motorcycle industry has always viewed minimotos as a niche product in a shrinking segment of dirt bikes. The authors explain the emergence of the minimoto market as a process in three stages: consumer innovation, where creative consumers mobilize available objects and other resources to overcome barriers; community formation, when creative consumers engage other people in the same activities, leading to the development of products, practices, and infrastructures; and a final stage of market emergence.
"Such organic market emergence distributes the risk and the investment of market building broadly among consumers rather than concentrating it at the level of the firm," the authors write. "And it offers insight into the kinds of actors that have the power to shift markets in fundamental ways."
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Diane M. Martin and John W. Schouten. "Consumption-Driven Market Emergence." Journal of Consumer Research: February 2014. For more information, contact John Schouten or visit http://ejcr.org/.
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AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Apple’s exhaustive search for a retail chief finally came to a close with the hiring of Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts. Apple went nearly a year without a vice president in charge of retail, but the wait was worth it: Ahrendts has the stylistic smarts and global reach Apple needs to expand its shopping empire.
Ahrendts will be in charge of all of Apple’s retail efforts, online and off. “I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people’s lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company’s continued success and leadership in changing the world,” she said today in a statement.
In an internal memo, meanwhile, CEO Tim Cook said that he had Ahrendts pegged for the role since they first met in January.
Her appointment may finally close a gaping hole in Apple’s executive team. Last October, Apple announced a major shakeup that included the ouster of then retail head John Browett, who had made a number of ill-received staffing decisions. Browett left during the same putsch that sent iOS vice president Scott Forstall packing. But while Forstall’s responsibilities were redistributed among executives Craig Federighi, Jony Ive, and Eddy Cue, the role of retail head has sat vacant since Browett’s departure.
To go so long without a leader for one of the most important aspects of Apple’s business may seem risky. But the well-established template appears to have allowed Apple stores to coast successfully while Cook took his time luring Ahrendts into the Cupertino fold.
For her part, Ahrendts’ global retail and fashion experience should bode well for a company that’s trying to extend both its reach and its brand. Apple has been trying to deepen its presence in China, a huge and ever-increasingly important global market. During her seven years in charge of Burberry, Ahrendts managed to significantly expand Burberry’s presence in China and other emerging markets, resulting in a more than threefold increase in the fashion brand’s market value ($3.35 billion to $11.18 billion).
As for Ahrendts’ fashion chops, those won’t go to waste at Apple either either. The company is widely rumored to be working on some sort of wearable device — often referred to as the “iWatch” — and Ahrendt is Apple’s second major hire from the fashion industry following Yves Saint Laurent’s Paule Deneve, who was hired to work on “special projects.” Apple has also hired two key folks involved with the development of the Nike FuelBand, designer Ben Shaffer and advisor Jay Blahnik. If the Cupertino mothership is looking for someone to successfully expand the company’s retail savvy as it enters the luxury fashion space — especially in the many parts of the world with better fashion sense than Silicon Valley — you probably couldn’t do much better than Ahrendt.
