TREND REPORTS
On-Demand Petcare Gains Traction
[Product]
2019/07/09 10:46
Gen Ys demand instant gratification and on-demand services, and their preferences in the realm of healthcare are no exception. However, this need doesn’t stop at their personal health: modern young adults, who are apt to splurge on their fur babies, are giving rise to the proliferation of on-demand pet care services.Mystetho On top of 24/7 access to pet healthcare via chat, MyStetho outfits pe...
Disloyalty is the New Black
[Consumer]
2019/07/09 10:46
LOOKING TO LAND IN CONSUMER BASKETS? DON’T BANK ON YOUR BRAND POWER.If you’re one of those marketers who’s always relied on the 80/20 rule as a benchmark for sales success, you might want to adjust your strategy. That’s because today, more people than ever are interested in trying something they’ve never tried before.The implications here are significant. As consumers become more brand dis...
ARI – Augmented Reality Interaction
[Product]
2019/07/09 10:45
Augmented Reality offers so much promise. It is expected to have as great an impact in the future workplace as the personal computer did in the home. AR has the potential to create new and even more immersive learning experiences. Information can be set free from the screen and brought to life in the world around us.A major obstacle in adopting AR into everyday business is that the means to cre...
(Infographic) The Highest & Lowest Paid S&P 500 CEOs in 2018
[Investing]
2019/07/09 10:45
2018 in general was not a great year for stocks, with the S&P 500 down 6.2%. However, the CEO compensation of S&P CEOs continued to rise, reaching a median of $12.4 million in 2018. What explains this unprecedented rise in executive compensation, and is it reason for concern?Our viz highlights the results of a Wall Street Journal report on the 2018 compensation of S&P 500 CEOs. The...
(PDF) Deloitte - The Future of Aging
[Business]
2019/07/08 13:29
What impact might the expansion of health span have on society?In a future of health focused on preventing disease, aging may no longer be defined by disease, but, rather, extended vitality. This shift could have far-reaching implications.WHAT IMPACT might the expansion of health span—the amount of time that one is healthy in life—have on society? The future of aging could look radically di...
(Video) The Future of Cyberpunk Crosswalk
[Design]
2019/07/08 13:29
Motion Graphic Designer Takayuki Yoshida Imagines Cyberpunk Crosswalk.While hologram technology has certainly made strides, for example enabling dead musicians from 2Pac, Michael Jackson, Billie Holiday, Roy Orbison and Amy Winehouse to go on tour, or a circus in Germany to do away with animals in an effort to end animal cruelty, we have yet to see the kind of immersive holograms animating city...
Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for Cameras
[Business]
2019/07/08 12:07
More retailers are embracing product-recognition technology pioneered by Amazon. A man strolled down the candy aisle of a grocery store in England last month, picked up a bar of chocolate and stashed it in his back pocket. He wasn’t stealing. Specially equipped surveillance cameras were tracking both his body and the products he was taking off the shelves, to help him pay for them.Tesco PLC, o...
Used Cars and AI Come Out on Top as China's Startup Funding Slumps
[Investing]
2019/07/08 12:06
36Kr shows 1H funding on track to fall 33% as sharing-economy darlings lose their shine.Chinese startups face increasing difficulty in raising money to fuel their businesses as various headwinds including the country's slower economic growth shrink the availability of venture capital.Fundraising slowed to 362.9 billion yuan ($52.6 billion) in the first half of 2019. At this rate, the full-year...
Baldness Breakthrough Uses 3D-Printed "Hair Farms" to Grow New Hair Follicles
[Tech]
2019/07/08 12:06
An exciting breakthrough from Columbia University researchers demonstrates a new way to grow human hair follicles using 3D printed molds. This is the first time human hair follicle cells have been grown completely in lab conditions, opening up a potentially unlimited source of hair follicles for future hair restoration surgical procedures.Over the last few decades hair transplantation surgery h...
