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Culture & Media

Stat: India’s digital media surpasses tv for the first time

Indians spent a staggering 1.1 trillion hours on their smartphones in 2024, averaging five hours daily.

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Culture & Media

Stat: Korean gamers favour mobiles and consoles as PC gaming declines 

The gaming landscape is shifting as mobile and console games surge in popularity, leaving PC gaming in decline, according to the Korea Creative Content Agency’s (KCCA) annual content users report.

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Fashion

Foresight Friday: Seyi Oduwole, foresight analyst

Every Friday, The Future Laboratory team offers an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, foresight analyst Seyi Oduwole discusses teens and technology, expensive sneakers and bookshop booms.

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Culture & Media

Teens, Tech and Tapping Out

The unprecedented teen mental health crisis, coupled with the toxic and addictive nature of social media, may be inspiring a grassroots movement of activist parents looking to change youngsters’ relationships with their smartphones. But how will this evolve?

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Technology

Six Tech Brands Developing DIY Repairable Devices

Spurred on by growing right-to-repair movements, tech brands are slowly meeting consumers’ long-standing demands for DIY repairable devices.

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Marketing & Branding

Samsung is opening new eyes to smartphone innovations

With many mobile users staying loyal to one smartphone brand year after year, a new campaign from Samsung is looking to make people aware of new innovations and challenge their expectations of what to expect from a new device.

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Technology

Hong Kong trials ground-level signal lights for distracted pedestrians

Pedestrians walking around the city with their eyes glued to their phone screens are becoming a real problem in the city, with lives being put in danger at crossings every day.

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Technology

Normally envisages an eco-friendly Instagram

Design studio Normally is exploring how to redesign the internet to require less energy – starting with Instagram.

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Culture & Media

Smartphone storytelling

Youth film-making collective Pickpocket examines why film and tv are stuck in a pre-internet world and how smartphones can create suspense to rival Hitchcock.