TREND REPORTS
Idle Robocar Riders Will Be Sitting Retail Targets
[Business]
2019/10/09 09:05
Looking ahead to full, self-driving vehicles the question comes up, what to do with all that idle time while the car does all the work? Some scenarios include grabbing a nap, watching videos, checking emails, holding business meetings or just being left alone with your thoughts.They’re all viable ideas, but to anyone involved in selling products or services, an idle rider is a juicy target.How...
Fraunhofer - How to Bend Flat Glass Perfectly Around Corners
[Tech]
2019/10/09 09:04
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM have developed a new process that can bend sheets of glass to produce angular corners. Unlike conventional processes, this does not impair the optical properties of the glass. Bent glass looks destined to play a key role in future building design, and there are also potential applications in the fields of medical technolog...
Red Dot Design Concept Award for the Year 2019 - The Dry Mountain Gas Stove
[Design]
2019/10/09 09:03
The Dry Mountain Gas Stove has a meditative quality about it, brought about by its inspiration from Japanese and Buddhist landscape gardens. The stove’s design is dominated by curved, soft forms that make it appear calming, while also giving you a little extra countertop space, thanks to the rounded edges. The stove’s wavy resting plate is one of its strongest visual features. The wave-inspir...
(PDF) Accenture - How to Scale Innovation and Achieve Full Value with Future Systems
[Business]
2019/10/07 11:19
Accenture's leaders see enterprise technologies as a system compared to independent fixes and bet on cloud, AI, big data analytics and IoT. IT laggards could lose up to $20 billion in revenue over the next 5 years, says Accenture.Companies that fail to scale innovation may lose up to $20 billion in revenue over the next five years as enterprises thrive or dive based on information technology de...
(Video) Paralysed Man Moves in Mind-Reading Exoskeleton
[Tech]
2019/10/07 11:19
A French man was able to regain control over all four of his paralyzed limbs thanks to a mind-controlled exoskeleton suit, the BBC reports.A video shows 30-year-old Thibault (last name redacted) wearing the bulky 143-pound exoskeleton, which hangs from a support rail attached to the ceiling. In the clip, he walks across the room and moves both of his arms in all directions.“It was like [being...
(Patent) Apple Patent Application Describes Touchscreen Keyboards You Can Feel
[Tech]
2019/10/07 11:19
Whether this becomes an actual thing remains to be seen.More than 10 years after the first iPhone, it's safe to say most people are used to typing on on-screen keyboards. But that doesn't they couldn't be made better, and it looks like someone at Apple is thinking about ways to do just that. Patently Apple pointed out a patent application where the company describes a technology that could allo...
Instagram Is a Favorite for Influencer Marketing
[Business]
2019/10/07 11:19
Instagram scored the highest among marketers, who believe that the social media channel is the most effective for influencer campaigns. YouTube videos made a dent in Instagram’s stronghold of the top four best formats.Overall, marketers MediaKix surveyed favored more engaging channels like Instagram and YouTube to fit with the highly personal format of influencers. Facebook got a lukewarm resp...
AI Medical Service Raises $42.9 for AI-based Software That Checks Endoscopy
[Investing]
2019/10/07 11:19
AI Medical Service, a Tokyo-based company developing AI-based software to help detect gastric cancer, announced today that it has raised a $42.9 million Series B. Investors include Globis Capital Partners, World Innovation Lab and Sony Innovation Fund by IGV. The funding will be used for clinical trials of its software, which looks for signs of cancer in real-time during endoscopies, product de...
Daily Profits of the Ten Most Profitable Companies on Earth
[Investing]
2019/10/07 11:19
In an age of “unicorn” companies, which are private companies with billion-dollar valuations, and even trillion dollar companies, it can be difficult to mentally comprehend important financial metrics due to their enormity. Worldwide corporate profits are certainly one such measure, with many companies clearing hundreds of billions of dollars annually. - 70 companies around the world earn ove...
