Bringing you a bit of positivity amidst these uncertain times, the A’ Design Awards 2020 announced their results for the year. Spanning literally a hundred categories, the A’ Design Awards look at creating a holistic list of the best designs internationally, across all disciplines. While the Coronavirus has definitely put a damper on awards who are looking to conduct exhibitions and gala nigh...

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have transitioned to working—and socializing—from home. If these trends become the new normal, certain companies may be in for a big payoff.Popular video conferencing company, Zoom Communications, is a prime example of an organization benefiting from this transition. Today’s graphic, inspired by Lennart Dobravsky at Lufthansa Innovation Hub, is a drama...

With the majority of the country still under strict stay-at-home mandates as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. consumer activity took another massive blow in April following a record plunge in March.Headline retail sales nosedived a record 16.4% in April which was much worse than the 12% plunge expected by economists. March retail sales was revised to a decline of 8.4% from the previously...

Hard seltzers and canned wines were already on the upswing, but pre-mixed cocktails are the star of the living room bar.While many Americans continue to live under some measure of quarantine, people have been drinking more at home. With restaurants and bars unlikely to reopen soon (if at all), and a near-guarantee of a second wave of Covid-19 infections, it seems the living room bar is here to...

While there’s been talk of Americans resorting to indulgent foods as they shelter in place, they’ve instead flocked to plant-based meat and cheap pantry staples.Since the coronavirus pandemic ignited a nationwide lockdown in March, U.S. consumers have doubled purchases of all sorts of beans and canned meat, according to Nielsen data. The biggest surge of any category came in plant-based meat,...

Tentsile's new stand weighs nearly 100 lb (45 kg) and stretches out more than 15 feet (4.6-m). It looks something like a spacecraft on the verge of takeoff, but if you find yourself needing to hang a Tentsile tent in an open field, beach or yard, it's a piece of kit you'll be happy to have on hand.We've taken both hammock and tree tents on camping trips before, and even when venturing inside th...

Future MacBook or MacBook Pro models may adopt a unibody design with a seamless bendable hinge mechanism to allow Apple to build them out of a single piece of material.Following many Apple patent applications for bendable, and even rollable, screens for the iPhone and iPad, the company is also examining how a MacBook Pro could benefit from being able to bend. Rather than the current complex hin...

A look back sounds appealing. As lockdowns continue across most US states, many people are reflecting on what life was like before COVID-19. The inclination to reminisce is certainly understandable on a deeply human level: a few months ago, consumers were engaging in life-enriching activities ranging from taking vacations to shopping in nonessential stores to dining in favorite restaurants to s...

Flexibility, portability, and intrinsic safety could make this personal mobility system better than rigid bikes and scooters.The trend towards communal sidewalk-based personal mobility systems (like shared bikes and scooters) has resulted in some amount of actual personal mobility, but also a lot of cluttered sidewalks, injured riders and pedestrians, and questionable business models. Fortunate...