TREND REPORTS
(Infographic) Consumers Are Turning to Telehealth and Innovative Mobile Medicine Services
[Consumer]
2020/01/07 09:03
Reaching an engaged audience by advertising on a variety of digital platforms. Users of online pharmacies and telehealth apps are, on average, in their mid-30s and see themselves as early adopters.From accessing medical records to speaking to physicians, Americans are turning to mobile medicine as a supplement to healthcare coverage. Users are taking advantage of innovative mobile medicine serv...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Defending Southeast Asian Consumer-Company Value in a Digital Age
[Business]
2020/01/06 09:10
Consumer expectations and new technologies are rapidly changing revenues and profits in the consumer-packaged-goods market. Incumbent companies can prepare by adjusting their business models.Consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies in Southeast Asia might one day look at today’s market as the lull before the storm. While online purchases of physical goods have been slow to catch on in the regio...
BBC Billboard Ads for Dracula Reveal a Secret Message after Dark
[Design]
2020/01/06 09:09
A series of stakes seemingly organized at random create a shadow of a growling Dracula after sunset.Great advertising is art, and we can all recognize great art when we see it. This was exactly the case with BBC's latest billboard ad for Dracula.Billboards with fangsThe giant billboards placed in both Birmingham and London feature a series of what seem like random bloody stakes. The posters are...
(Infographic) The Best and Worst Performing Sectors in 2019
[Investing]
2020/01/06 09:08
If you think back almost 12 months, you’ll remember that the markets opened the year with extreme levels of volatility.Stocks had just finished the worst year in a decade. Then in early January, Apple cut its earnings guidance after the company had already lost over $400 billion in market capitalization. The S&P 500 and DJIA seesawed, suggesting that the lengthy bull run could come to an e...
(Paper) MIT Researchers Taught Autonomous Cars to See Around Corners
[Tech]
2020/01/06 09:07
Researchers at MIT are helping autonomous cars deliver on the promise of safer roads with a new trick that lets driverless vehicles see around corners to pre-emptively spot other vehicles or moving hazards that human drivers would never see coming.There have been several attempts to make cameras that are able to see around corners, including other MIT researchers who revealed a system that can...
Bob Iger Takes the Gloves Off for Disney’s Streaming Debut
[Business]
2020/01/06 09:06
Disney+ looks like the future of the house of mouse. It could also define the CEO’s legacy when he retires in 2021.Long before he became chief executive officer of Walt Disney Co. in 2005, Robert Iger developed a habit of waking up on weekdays at 4:15 a.m. and working out. Lately he’s been getting up around that hour on weekends, too, to exercise and watch early versions of his studios’ movi...
Segway S-Pod Is Bringing the Hoverchairs From WALL-E to Life
[Product]
2020/01/06 09:05
Segway-Ninebot announced several new transportation products it plans to unveil at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show — and as pointed out by Wired, one of them looks eerily similar to the hover chairs featured in the post-apocalyptic Pixar film “WALL-E.”The device is called the Segway S-Pod, and like Segway’s flagship vehicle, it balances on two wheels. According to a Segway-Ninebot pr...
What Happened To Consumer Device Startups ?
[Investing]
2020/01/06 09:04
Venture investors love technology. But lately they’ve been much less keen on the kind you buy in a box and take home from the store.While software continues to eat the world and VC checkbooks, venture investment in consumer electronics startups is poised to decline year-over-year in 2019. That marks the third year in a row of contracting investment for the North American startups in the space,...
This Leaf-Shaped Bottle Cap Collects Atmospheric Moisture, Turning It Into Drinking Water
[Design]
2020/01/06 09:03
Designed to magically ‘turn air into water’, the Limbe is a new sort of dehumidifier that works without electricity, giving its user access to drinking water throughout the day. Its unique leaf-inspired design harks back to how water droplets condense on the surface of leaves, while its 3D printed intricate PET structure helps guide those water droplets down the ‘veins of the leaf’ into Lim...
