Cannes Lions - Innovation - BAIDU KUAISOU
The Chinese search-engine giant rolled out a so-called set of “smart chopsticks,” known as Kuaisou in Chinese, that it says can detect oils containing unsanitary levels of contamination. (http://blogs.wsj.com)
HOPE SOAP - WHO Y&R
In South Africa, thousands die every year in disadvantaged areas from preventable diseases like typhoid, diarrhea, pneumonia, and cholera. This is due to lack of hygiene. Worst of all, the diseases affect the most vulnerable and innocent - our children.
Enter Hope Soap, a see-through bar of soap with a small toy inside. The only way for kids to get to the toy is to use ...
Airbnb makes renting empty homes profitable. So toraise funds for the homeless, we used a lookalike site. Just a few letters made all the difference: Notfairbnb. It definitely put the situation in Brussels on the map. Th ...
No ano em que comemora seu centenário no País, a IBM Brasil realizou na Pinacoteca de São Paulo o projeto ‘A Voz da Arte’, que usa a computação cognitiva para tornar o passeio ao museu ainda mais interativo e personalizado. A companhia criou um assistente cognitivo que responde perguntas dos visitantes sobre sete obras de arte do acervo da Pina. A visita guiada com a tecnologia IBM Watson foi aber ...
Direct Line has created a way to make people safer in darkly-lit areas: Fleetlight drones that light your way on the path ahead. The prototype service: a fleet of flying torch drones, are responsive to an individual’s movements and controlled via a bespoke app. (http://saatchi.co)
In Europe, every two minutes a child is reported missing. Some remain missing for years. Child Focus, the Belgian Centre for Missing Children, never gives up hope. So, we had to create a reminder to make sure these children are never forgotten. The country created one million 2 euro coins with the face of a missing child: Liam Vanden Branden, who has been missing for 20 years. Each coin also ...
En verano, los limeños salen a la playa y para llegar usan la carretera Panamericana, que se caracteriza por estar saturada de publicidad exterior, pero no tan llamativa. Por esa razón decidimos intervenirla y secuestrarla. Hicimos la experiencia VR más grande del país, donde reemplazamos más de 40 publicidades exteriores con nuestros productos de temporada, los cuales podían interactuar con los p ...
AAMI SmartPlates, a real-time drive tracker and coach that sits at the centre of a new digital learning eco-system: connecting young drivers, parents, instructors and road authorities for the first time. The AAMI SmartPlates mobile app tracks every detail of every drive, so Learners can focus on the road while their practice hours, routes, road type, weather and traffic density, are monitored and ...
Every year, the Steve Waugh Foundation conducts ‘The Captain’s Ride’; a 6-day cycle through NSW that aims to raise much-needed funding for the 400,00 children suffering from Rare Diseases. The trouble was, the children couldn’t participate in the ride… Until now.The Riderless Bike is a fully autonomous children’s bicycle with an empty seat, fitted with GPS and a 360 camera, offering a first-person ...
Launching today, the iconic Deutsche Telekom colour magenta has been harnessed to create a new medium for entertainment. The Lenz App changes the way content can be viewed, bringing about a new way to consume entertainment and enabling anything magenta to become a viewable screen. The mobile app has been created especially for Telekom Electronic Beats, Deutsche Telekom‘s music and lifestyle progra ...
Predict To Prevent – a predictive text function that recommends the right mix of words to someone who is hurting.
350 million people worldwide suffer from depression and communicating with people with depression can sometimes do more harm than good, despite their best intentions.
Texting is the main channel people use to communicate with one another, and for people ...
Pedigree SelfieStix. A specially designed phone accessory that attaches a DentaStix to any phone, so you can capture the perfect dog selfie every time. SelfieStix was free with every purchase of Pedigree DentaStix and was supported by a campaign and app. The SelfieStix app uses a machine learning network to recognise the faces of different dogs, allowing owners to add fun and quirky filters t ...
Recent research undertaken by CommBank found the majority of Australian adults (66 per cent) admit to feeling uncertain about what the future holds, with these feelings particularly pronounced when it comes to matters of a financial nature. As Australia's largest bank, CBA recognise it has a responsibility to partner with Australians to find new ways to move forward. (https://mcsaatchi.com.au ...
Dot Mini is the first device that can access any digital text content on its own. Because the innovative Dot Translation Engine, based on AI / Machine Learning, understands context and translates efficiently to Grade 2 Braille, which is on average 50% shorter. (https://www.serviceplan.com)
Monster hadn't kept up with the times, therefore, they had been forgotten and surpassed by the competition. They wanted to remind people that they put humanity at the center of searching for a new job, which can be a challenging and lonely process. So, we helped them re-launch in a big, purple fuzzy way. (https://forsman.co)
There is only one country in the world where women are still prohibited from driving: Saudi Arabia. This changed in late September when King Salman's historic royal decree granted women the right to drive. Nissan strives to make the innovation and excitement of driving accessible to all, so the news presented an opportunity to genuinely bring this promise to life, at a time when all other carmaker ...
NatGeo’s new series “One Strange Rock” is all about giving viewers a different perspective of our planet. To promote it, we created a piece of technology designed to do exactly that. The Astronaut Reality Helmet gives viewers an astronaut’s perspective of earth and provides a space experience no VR headset can deliver. (https://www.mccannny.com)
When a rescue team opens the “Emergency Route” app and goes out, it immediately sends a message to the digital billboards that are 1 km ahead, asking drivers to leave the left lane free in advance (https://saopaulo.yr.com)
A rape victim’s brutal nightmare doesn’t end after the rape. In the U.S., 9 out of 10 victims are forced to pay an average $1,000 in hospital bills after an attack. The National Organization of Victim Assistance (NOVA) created an online platform, RapeTax.com, that empowers victims to turn these bills into the story of their own rape – to shine a light on this injustice and show the steep cost they ...