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Browsing Crowdsourcing

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Design

Milan Salone 2017: Mining stardust

Milan – Designers Kirstie van Noort and Xandra van der Eijk consider the potential of collecting extraterrestrial dust as a new resource.

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Big Ideas

Development dining

UK – London restaurant Le Bab has launched a Development Sunday series, where diners can try experimental kebabs for half the price.

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Food & Drink

Pret a veg

London – Pret a Manger will open its first stand-alone vegetarian store in June 2016.

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Technology

Decision-maker

Global – Dvel is an app helping consumers to crowdsource advice on life’s little decisions.

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Technology

IT on call

Recife, Brazil – Using GPS technology similar to that of popular taxi apps such as Uber, FindUP connects customers to reliable IT experts in Brazil, where computer repairs are often a geographical challenge.

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Travel & Hospitality

China’s DIY travellers

China – Prepare for the rise of the DIY Chinese travellers, the new breed of young, affluent, experience-hungry Sixth Continent consumers.

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Marketing & Branding

Mad Men invites fans to recreate pilot episode to promote the last series

To promote the final episodes of the television series Mad Men, AMC Networks is harnessing the energy of fans to recreate the pilot of the series shot by shot.

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Marketing & Branding

Plane hospitality: Airbnb offers a place to stay on the runway

Amsterdam – First Airbnb offered people the chance to stay in an Ikea store, then there was the Waterstones sleepover, now the crowdsourcing hospitality company is putting up guests on a decommissioned passenger jet.

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North America

Family photos: The search for a forgotten past

New York – Like many people, art director Dave Tomkins loved his grandpa. He loved him so much that when he found a box of old slides taken by his grandfather, Stephen Clarke, he wanted to unravel the mystery of where they were taken – so he decided to crowdsource the internet for answers.