Boston Consulting Group and Nielsen Global Connect, together with The Consumer Goods Forum, completed an in-depth survey about healthy eating in 2019, questioning 7,000 diverse consumers across the globe. Part of the Collaboration for Healthier Lives Coalition, the study included interviews with the CEOs of 15 large retail businesses and consumer goods manufacturers.Diet a Key Health MetricThe...

Lidar startup Ouster has spent the past several years expanding and improving its line of sensors as it jostles for a piece of the crowded and competitive market place. Now, Ouster says it has raised $42 million, fresh capital that will be used to fund product development and ramp up sales.In short: Ouster is keeping the fight alive and there are signs that the San Francisco-based startup is ma...

L’Oréal’s investment in artificial intelligence and augmented reality are paying off when it comes to consumer engagement, Robert Beredo, chief digital officer of L’Oréal Canada, told CGT, serving the beauty company well during a period of unprecedented consumer behavior shifts. The CDO shared insight about the beauty company’s recent expansion of its ModiFace AR and AI technology to Amaz...

In more ways than have yet to be realized, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the day-to-day lives of nearly every consumer the world over. This is especially true for office workers with traditional nine-to-five day jobs, where in-person meetings were the standard and the dress code called for something more formal than leisurewear. In the U.S., the country’s quarantine for...

If you think the world look better with a pair of snapchat-tinted glasses, then you’ll love this fun and whimsical project conceived by swift creatives.The scandinavian design studio has unveiled an augmented reality snapchat goggle concept designed to transform everyday situations into funny moments. the proposed AR goggles combine the latest mixed reality technology with well-known snapchat...

As sales of battery electric vehicles increase, OEMs need to focus on R&D excellence, flexible manufacturing, and value-chain integration to improve profitability.Electric mobility was just about to reach a tipping point in core markets when COVID-19 hit, disrupting automotive sales worldwide. With battery electric vehicles (BEVs), as with other categories, the impact varies widely by regio...

A cellphone power source that lasts nine years. An auto-battery pack that lasts nearly a century. A pacemaker that is powered to last 28,000 years.These surreal claims are being made by a California-based battery company that says successful early test results recently competed on a nano-diamond battery brings them closer to realizing such claims.The key to their revolutionary batteries is radi...

As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many grocery shoppers took to the safety of the web. Rather than risk catching the virus in physical stores, wary consumers let their fingers do the shopping on e-commerce sites in unprecedented numbers—and with that, the grocery landscape will never be the same. Nor will the future of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector, which makes its living from w...

The device, powered by button mashing and solar energy, could be a precursor for space technologies.While Nintendo is busy re-releasing old games at premium prices, scientists at Northwestern University have pushed the boundaries by using the company's iconic Game Boy design to build a device that can run forever without a battery.Josiah Hester, who co-led the research, says the proof-of-concep...