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MEX Inspirations: The Sausage Stylus

The Sausage Stylus One of the dirty secrets of capactive touchscreens like the one found on the Apple iPhone is that they don’t work when you’re wearing gloves. That may not be a problem in California around the Apple HQ, but for substanti…

Shanzhai Market in Beijing.

A colleague and I covered ten Chinese cities in three weeks during November 2009. We were in search of emerging big picture shifts in design sensibilities. We intervie…

5 initial themes for the next MEX Manifesto & Conference – what do you think?

The next MEX Conference is in London on 19th / 20th May. We’re currently deciding what should be in the new MEX Manifesto which will be at the heart of the Conference agenda and we wanted to provoke some different thinking: what are the *real* co…

MEX Inspirations: Video – What’s in a slogan?

What’s in a slogan?

This Brand Republic video shows what the world of mobile looks like through the eyes of real customers. A number of interview candidates are asked their reaction to the advertising slogans which front the multi-millio…

Stat Spot: Reasons for lower mobile phone ownership among females

42% 300m fewer women own mobile phones than men in low- to middle-income countries, but the reasons are rather different than one may imagine. Just 3% cite a lack of spousal permission as the reason, while a further 3% say it is becaus…

Stat Spot: Male versus female mobile phone ownership worldwide

300m There are 300m fewer female mobile phone owners than male around the world, according to a February 2010 report by the GSM Association and Cherie Blair Foundation. If this metric was resolved to parity, it would add USD 13 billion …