TREND REPORTS
(PDF) China Internet Report 2019
[Business]
2019/07/15 15:18
China has emerged on the world stage with a host of global tech companies that are innovative and competitive. And increasingly, their successes are being studied and replicated in other markets. This report, informed by on-the-ground reporting by the South China Morning Post and Abacus, offers insights into China’s tech trailblazers and the big important trends shaping the world’s biggest in...
(Patent) Samsung Seeks Patent on Folding AR Glasses with Frame-Activated Screen
[Tech]
2019/07/15 15:18
Newly published patent application (via Patently Apple) suggests that it’s actively working on AR glasses with at least one interesting feature: a display that is automatically powered on and off by the frames.While some AR headsets — including Microsoft’s HoloLens and Magic Leap One — wrap fully around the head like industrial goggles, Samsung’s design looks closer to a pair of plastic su...
(PDF) Machine Learning Helps Robot Harvest Lettuce for the First Time
[Tech]
2019/07/15 15:17
The robot is not near a commercial stage but instead has been developed to pioneer new computer vision and engineering processes for future agricultural outcomes.Engineers from the University of Cambridge have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify and harvest iceberg lettuce, one of the more manually demanding crops for human pickers. Vegebot was trained using a mac...
(PDF) Deloitte - Scaling IoT to Meet Enterprise Needs
[Business]
2019/07/15 15:17
Enterprises are increasingly complementing their cloud-based IoT solutions with edge computing to accelerate the pace of data analysis and make better decisions, faster.JUST a few years ago, many expected all the Internet of Things (IoT) to move to the cloud—and much of the consumer-connected IoT indeed lives there—but one of the key basics of designing and building enterprise-scale IoT sol...
Kibus is Like a Keurig for Your Pet
[Product]
2019/07/15 15:17
In a pitch during a recent meeting at Brinc’s Hong Kong headquarters, the Barcelona-based team behind Kibus Petcare was quick to point out that most millennials consider pets “a member of the family.” That sort of statement manifests itself in various ways, of course, but for many, that means preparing home cooked meals for their dogs and cats.As a rabbit owner myself, that fortunately mostl...
Trends That May End With The Baby Boomers
[Consumer]
2019/07/15 15:17
My example wasn’t exactly ground-breaking but here are some other things that will likely go away for good with the older generation: photo albums, landline phones, cable boxes, cash, clipping coupons, wearing socks with sandals, the phrase “beer o’clock”, newspapers, restaurant pagers, keys, Yellow Pages, and checks.People these days love to predict the end of things but I’m not smart to...
The Beautiful Pairing of Earphones and Earrings - The YoonJy Earphones
[Design]
2019/07/15 15:17
We use earphones so regularly that they have almost become a part of our outfit, and they have an impact on our image. However, certain earphones can interfere with earrings, leading to the user having to make the decision about what they think is more important! The YoonJy Earphones offer a rather unique solution to this problem, and one which sees earphones and jewelry working in harmony.Yoon...
(Infographic) All of The Important Dow Milestones in One Chart
[Investing]
2019/07/15 15:16
Is the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 27,000 for the first time, take a look back with this visual history of the index.It took only eight trading sessions for the Dow to sprint from the 25,000 level to 26,000 in January of 2018. Over 500 days and exactly 372 trading sessions later, the blue-chip index has notched its next 1,000-point milestone.Milestones are just numbers, but they p...
(PDF) PwC - Driving the Future of Health
[Business]
2019/07/14 09:10
How biopharma can defend and grow its business in an era of digitally enabled healthcare.By 2030, healthcare will be centered on patients empowered to prevent diseases rather than seek treatment. They will receive personalized health solutions in ways that are integrated seamlessly into their daily lives. All of this will be enabled by data and algorithms and provided within a healthcare system...
