Most read: Ikea unveils furniture that can charge your mobile
Anything that reduces the risk of being offline for a nanosecond, eh? The news from Marketing that that will keep your batteries fully juiced up was a hit with readers today.
The furniture has been fitted with wireless charging stations, and will be available from April.
As someone whose phone charger loves to go walkabout, I’m all for this idea. But adding electrics to already-enormous flatpack complexity? Just something to think about.
Most commented: M&C Saatchi creates first election poster for the Tories
M&C Saatchi’s wreeeeeaking ball (sorry) in its ahead of May’s General Election certainly got you tweeting earlier today. We’ve picked out a few to share…
M&C Saatchi Tory poster ...reminds me of the H.Enfield sketches L is for LICE!
— Adam Wyatt (@adamwyatt)
A bit meh...M&C Saatchi creates Tory poster via
— Veronique Rhys Evans (@vezre)
It's not just Miley hoping that riding on the back of a wrecking ball spells success
— Ben Hall (@thebenhall)
Interesting poster lacks the traditional party colours...
— Charlie Birkin (@CharlieBirkin)
Impactful or a bit lazy? Tell us what you think of the work
On social: One tweet ticket to Havas grad scheme
An RT request caught my beady eye this morning from , Roots. All prospective grads need do to apply is send a single tweet by 22 March.
Oh and be mega creative/memorable/unique too, one would assume.
Personally, I wish lots more things in life were limited to 140 characters. The 2015 grad scheme kicks off in June.
What the others are saying: On Google’s drones
Much has been reported on Google’s announcement at Mobile World Congress that it’s close to sending its solar-powered drones on their maiden flight.
The drones will be used as atmospheric satellites to bring internet access to the four billion people who currently don’t have it, .
Google’s Project Loon – its fleet of internet-beaming, weather-tracking balloons – can now stay afloat for six months.
Meanwhile on Facebook’s similar goal - to build drones, lasers and satellites to get more of the world’s population online. Mark Zuckerberg told an audience at Mobile World Congress that he’d love to partner with Google on the project.
BR recommends: Who’s your inspirational woman?
In celebration of International Women's Day on Sunday 8 March, all this week is asking senior industry figures to tell us who their most inspirational woman is.
Over the week we will hear from the likes of Tracey Barbour, group chief marketing officer at Havas Helia, and Martin Boddy, chief executive of Jaywing.
Alex Altman, managing director of Global Solutions at MEC, kicks things off for us today. .
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