TREND REPORTS
Netflix’s Latest Runaway Hit Is a Korean Reality Cooking Show
[Business]
2024/10/13 09:07
Netflix Inc.’s latest bet on Korean reality series has created another runaway hit. For the last two weeks, the cooking competition Culinary Class Wars topped its global weekly TV chart for non-English titles.The unscripted, 12-episode show started off with 100 chefs, divided into two categories. The “white spoons” run acclaimed places, many with Michelin stars; they’re pitted against under...
(Infographic) 45 Famous Phones From Pop Culture
[Product]
2024/10/13 09:06
Film makers use all kinds of props and visual clues to give us hints about the plot or to develop the world and characters. The team at Ooma showed us 45 examples with this infographic displaying 45 of pop culture’s most famous phones.This comprehensive list shows us imaginative phones from science fiction as well as historic screen firsts and iconic phones that helped define a character. The...
Just Why Is ‘Girl With Pearl Earring’ So Captivating? A New Study Has Answers
[Tech]
2024/10/13 09:05
The inquiry, spearheaded by the Mauritshuis, tracked participants' responses to the Vermeer's masterpiece.The Mauritshuis has teamed up with Dutch researchers to probe just what happens in our brains when we view art in person, compared to seeing a reproduction. It’s the museum’s first research into emotional responses to art—and the results will come as no surprise.“We see reproductions of...
Toyota's Portable Hydrogen Cartridges Look Like Giant AA Batteries
[Product]
2024/10/13 09:04
Toyota is showcasing a series of sustainable developments at the Japan Mobility Bizweek later this month – including its vision of a portable hydrogen cartridge future, which could apparently provide 'swappable' power for next-gen hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).Originally a project of Toyota’s mobility technology subsidiary Woven (formerly Woven Planet), the team produced a work...
1 in 8 Americans Feels Lonely a Lot of The Time
[Consumer]
2024/10/13 09:03
That number rises to nearly 1 in 4 for younger people.The latest version of the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey — a broad gauge of the economic and social issues affecting American households — found some not-so-surprising news: Americans are lonely.The survey conducted between August 20 and September 16 reported that 1 in 8 people (12.6%) was feeling lonely either “always” or “...
(Patent) Apple Wins a Patent That Provides the Foundation for Their Future 'Tabletop' Device
[Tech]
2024/10/10 09:10
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to the foundation of the future tabletop device as forecasted by Mark Gurman. The patent dives into a HomePod with one or two cameras, gaze controls and a Smart Assistant, likely to be Siri with AI to control home devices like lamps, appliances while acting as a FaceTime device.HomePod with Built-in Camera that...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Truth About Chinese Consumption
[Consumer]
2024/10/10 09:09
Despite low consumer confidence, pockets of growth in China’s vast consumer market remain. Looking back over the past few months since our last China Brief update in April, not much has changed.China’s GDP grew at a steady 5 percent during the first half of the year, while retail sales ticked modestly upward by 3.7 percent during this period.We see few signs that this picture of single-digit...
Does 3D Printing have a Place in Luxury ?
[Design]
2024/10/10 09:08
3D printing techniques are having a moment among fashion’s risk-taking players. But can the tech play a bigger role in the luxury industry?Coperni, a brand now synonymous with runway tech spectacles, unveiled its latest breakthrough at its fairytale-inspired Spring 2025 Paris show last Tuesday: a 3D-printed handbag.The Ariel Swipe Bag, developed in collaboration with Boston-based manufacturing...
(Paper) MIT Develops 3D-Printed Glass Bricks for Sustainable Construction
[Tech]
2024/10/10 09:07
The interlocking bricks, which can be repurposed many times over, can withstand similar pressures as their concrete counterparts.What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled into a new structure, in a sustainable cycle that could supply generat...
