Pill packing robot cheaper than staff for pharmacies
Pharmacists are paying more attention to their customers thanks to a robot hiding behind the counter.
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Spark pits traditional media vs. social media in Kiwinade launch experiment, calls on businesses to up their digital game
Spark Lab recently pitted social media against traditional advertising in a bid to see which would perform better in launching a product, a drink dubbed Kiwinade, in the local market.
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Idealog's Most Creative: The Lucky Taco's Otis and Sarah Frizzell
The Lucky Taco's Otis and Sarah Frizzell were one of the People's Choice winners for the food/beverage category in Idealog and Accenture's Most Creative People. The Frizzells were in pretty early on the food truck trend with the ever-popular Lucky Taco, but they’ve taken it one creative step furt...
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Done Deal: Recent fundings secured, contracts inked and deals done, for the tl;dr crowd
All the deals done, did.
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Blunt Umbrellas, Oxfam NZ and Flox make limited edition umbrellas for charity
Oxfam New Zealand, Blunt Umbrellas and Kiwi artist Flox have collaborated on a limited-edition ‘Flox for Blunt’ umbrella to help raise interest in, and funds, for Oxfam NZ’s climate change initiatives in the Pacific region.
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Why you need to become a business that breathes: welcome to the era of 'living services' and 'liquid expectations'
Our wired world and rising ‘liquid expectations’ are leading more businesses down the path of digital transformation. But those transformations often fail. Fjord’s Andy Polaine talks to Maya Breen about what the era of living services means for businesses and why those that want to stay alive mus...
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Ultra-thin curved concrete roof created using innovative method
The creators of a novel formwork system plan to use the sinuous concrete roof in a real construction project in 2018. The post
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Shark spotting drones alert swimmers of nearby danger
In Australia drones have been powered by artificial intelligence and embedded with loudspeakers to warn those at risk of shark attacks. The post
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Mobile app hosts live auctions on stadium scoreboards
New Zealand-based startup offers sports lovers the added experience of winning goods at low prices. The post
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Idealog's Most Creative: Citta Design's Imogen Tunnicliffe and David Moreland talk creativity
Heads of design at Citta Imogen Tunnicliffe and David Moreland were People's Choice winners for the design category in Idealog and Accenture's Most Creative People. The two are an influential pair, with their design decisions regularly rippling through their category and helping to turn a company...
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25 things with Xero's Craig Walker, part two
Xero's longtime CTO Craig Walker knows things, wants things, predicts things, worries about things and improves things. In this second installment, here are five things he wishes New Zealand would do right now.
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New Zealand Innovation Awards: Excellence in Social Innovation, Innovation in Sustainability & Renewable Energy, Organic Initiative (Oi)
And the 2017 winner of the Excellence in Social Innovation, Innovation in Sustainability & Renewable Energy is... Organic Initiative!
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2017 Edmund Hillary Fellowship profiles: Samantha Jones
Recipients of the 2017 Edmund Hillary Fellowship have been announced. To mark the enormous achievement - a three-year fellowship programme offered for up to 100 high-calibre international entrepreneurs, investors and startup teams and 20 Kiwis to incubate and support innovative businesses that ha...
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Behold: The winners of the 2017 New Zealand Architecture Awards
Over twenty buildings have been crowned New Zealand’s premier architectural designs in the 2017 New Zealand Architecture Awards, while Patterson Associates’ Andrew Patterson received the Gold Medal – the highest personal honour an architect can receive. Here's a run down of the list of winners co...
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Transforming Te Papa’s learning space
Te Papa has transformed its learning programmes and space, creating Hīnātore, a disruptive new learning lab stacked with cutting-edge tech gizmos that consign clunky projector slideshows and VHS videos to the museum’s basement archives. And it needed eye-catching, dynamic branding to communicate ...
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