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How Max Headroom, The Geico Gecko, And Other Ad Characters Made A Huge Impact

How Max Headroom, The Geico Gecko, And Other Ad Characters Made A Huge Impact

Ten fictional brand promoters that show how the right pitchman (pitch-lizard? pitch-donkey?) can go a long way toward defining a business.

How Panera Bread Uses Tech To Get Your Bread Bowl To You Even Faster

How Panera Bread Uses Tech To Get Your Bread Bowl To You Even Faster

Updates from the MIC alumni.

10 Glimpses Of The Future

10 Glimpses Of The Future

These 10 past Most Innovative Companies honorees signaled major business and cultural changes to come.

Four Lessons From SeatGeek’s Fan-Friendly Assault On Ticketmaster

Four Lessons From SeatGeek’s Fan-Friendly Assault On Ticketmaster

The mobile ticketing innovator dishes on how it’s taking on one of the most hated companies in America.

Why Every Business Should Use “Irregular Thinking” To Find Breakthrough Ideas

Why Every Business Should Use “Irregular Thinking” To Find Breakthrough Ideas

Advertising veterans Jaime Robinson and Lisa Clunie built their company, Joan, to be different from the rest of the industry.

Why Experience Agency Huge Created Its Own AI Assistant Named Dakota

Why Experience Agency Huge Created Its Own AI Assistant Named Dakota

The Brooklyn-based digital agency is embracing artificial intelligence to help big brands create the smart internet.

This App Is The Antidote To This Insane Presidential Campaign

This App Is The Antidote To This Insane Presidential Campaign

Sidewire–created by a former Republican politico and a Stanford wunderkind–aims to create community around smart political discourse.

Magic Leap Scores $793.5 Million To Science The Heck Out Of “Mixed Reality Lightfield”

Magic Leap Scores $793.5 Million To Science The Heck Out Of “Mixed Reality Lightfield”

Augmented reality startup Magic Leap has raised $793.5 million in a funding round led by Alibaba.

Chris Sacca Explains it All–About “Shark Tank”

Chris Sacca Explains it All–About “Shark Tank”

Ahead of his broadcast debut, the prominent investor behind the likes of Twitter and Uber explains his love for <em>Shark Tank</em>.

Shark Tank, S7, Ep 4: America? Fuhgeddaboutit

Shark Tank, S7, Ep 4: America? Fuhgeddaboutit

This week’s episode leads me to question my belief in country—and my washroom habits.

Ideas

A Rugged Box Of Education Tech With Its Own Internet Connection, And Other World Changing Developing World Technology

A Rugged Box Of Education Tech With Its Own Internet Connection, And Other World Changing Developing World Technology

Credo Mobile Wants To Help Power The Resistance (And Give Away Millions In The Process)

These High-Tech Sensors Track Exactly How Fresh Our Produce Is So We Stop Wasting Food

Entertainment

Bryson Tiller, Carly Rae Jepsen, And That Lorde & Chromeo Remix: This Week In Music

Bryson Tiller, Carly Rae Jepsen, And That Lorde & Chromeo Remix: This Week In Music

He Didn’t: An “Arrested Development” Writer On Twitter’s Most-Used Political Meme

Sweden Lists On Airbnb, Gillette Asks Dad: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week

Co.Design

Google’s New Viz Tool Makes Snappy GIFs Out Of Your Data

Google’s New Viz Tool Makes Snappy GIFs Out Of Your Data

This MIT-Invented Pasta Packs Flat, Then Snaps Into Crazy Shapes

The Running Shoes Of The Future Are Alive (Oh, And They Glow)

Fast Company

I Hated Growing Up Evangelical In Sweden, But It Made Me A Better Entrepreneur

I Hated Growing Up Evangelical In Sweden, But It Made Me A Better Entrepreneur

A Rugged Box Of Education Tech With Its Own Internet Connection, And Other World Changing Developing World Technology

Credo Mobile Wants To Help Power The Resistance (And Give Away Millions In The Process)