TREND REPORTS
Plummeting Newspaper Ad Revenue Sparks New Wave of Changes
[Business]
2016/10/23 11:07
With global newspaper print advertising on pace for worst decline since recession, publishers cut costs and restructure. Global spending on newspaper print ads is expected to decline 8.7% to $52.6 billion in 2016. Newspapers are suffering an accelerating drop in print advertising, a market that already was under stress, forcing some publishers to consider significant cost cuts and dramatic chan...
(PDF) Microsoft's New Breakthrough : AI That's as Good as Humans at Listening... On The Phone
[Tech]
2016/10/23 11:06
Microsoft's new speech-recognition record means professional transcribers could be among the first to lose their jobs to artificial intelligence.Microsoft's speech-recognition AI could eventually be used to enhance Cortana's accessibility features, say, for deaf people.Microsoft researchers have developed a system that recognizes speech as accurately as a professional human transcriptionist.Res...
(Video) The Muse is a Brain-Sensing Headband That Helps You Meditate
[Product]
2016/10/23 11:05
The answer to stress and over-connectedness is always to add more technology to the equation.Who knew that meditation—an activity that’s supposed to help us destress from our hectic, always connected lives—can be enhanced by factoring in even more technology? The Muse is a sensor-equipped headband that reads your brain activity and helps to guide you into a deeper meditative state when paire...
China Overtakes The U.S. in iOS App Store Revenue
[Business]
2016/10/23 11:04
Pokémon Go was the fastest mobile game to hit $600 million in revenues, according to market researcher App Annie.Even if its growth is slowing down, the game where you collect cute Pokémon creatures is the most successful mobile game in history. In its third-quarter market index, App Annie found that Niantic Labs generated more than $600 million in revenue from July through the end of Septemb...
This Shopping Bag Turns Human Hands Into LEGO Claws
[Design]
2016/10/23 11:03
New york based advertising and designers junho lee and hyun chul choi have envisioned a promotional shopping bag for LEGO playbox. the carrier creates the illusion that the handler’s hands are inhuman, and are instead swapped with the instantly recognizable plastic ‘claw’ found on LEGO figurines. junho lee and hyun chul choi have designed an all-red, square-shaped bag that features a graphic...
(PDF) BCG -The Mega Trends in Transportation and Logistics
[Business]
2016/10/20 11:06
In the coming years, the transportation and logistics (T&L) industry will most likely be significantly altered by several megatrends that are reshaping the business environment. As these megatrends change the industry, leading players will capture the new opportunities by reacting faster and more decisively than their competitors. The most successful companies will start preparing for these...
The Origami-Like, All-In-One Measuring Spoon, Into The Fold - Polygons
[Design]
2016/10/20 11:06
The company recently launched a Kickstarter for the spoon, and as of October 19th had already passed its $10,000 goal — by more than $300,000.For all the ways a batch of measuring spoons helps an ordinary cook in the kitchen, one attribute it certainly isn’t getting high marks in is its ability to be a jack-of-all-trades. That is, until an innovative new measuring device called Polygons took...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Digital Middle East : Transforming The Region Into a Leading Digital Economy
[Business]
2016/10/20 11:06
A number of countries in the region have high rates of consumer smartphone penetration, but businesses and governments need to catch up.The Middle East is on the verge of a massive digital disruption. In the past decade, the cross-border data flow connecting the Middle East to the rest of the world has increased more than 150-fold. Several countries—including Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Ara...
(Video) Robotic ALIAS Puts Cessna Caravan Through Basic Maneuvers
[Tech]
2016/10/20 11:05
ALIAS is a DARPA program aimed at reducing the load on military flight crews.The ALIAS system, developed by DARPA, could cut down on crew requirements in military and civilian small aircraft by taking control with a robotic arm. Although it's still a ways off production, the system has been successfully demonstrated on a Cessna Caravan aircraft.As aircraft have become more advanced, they've als...
Montblanc's Augmented Paper Digitizes Rich People's Handwriting
[Product]
2016/10/20 11:05
A digital notebook in Italian leather.Montblanc isn't the first company to try and bridge the worlds of analog and digital note-taking, but it does want to be the most stylish. At IFA this week, the German company best known for its luxury pens and watches unveiled the Montblanc Augmented Paper — a notebook that lets users transfer handwritten sketches, doodles, and everything else to a connec...
Smartphone Sensor Spots Cancer in Several Samples Simultaneously
[Tech]
2016/10/20 11:05
Researchers at WSU have developed a portable spectrometer, which works with a smartphone to analyze multiple samples at once for signs of cancer.The continuing miniaturization of electronic devices has allowed sensors previously confined to a laboratory to shrink down to a portable size, with previously bulky equipment now able to fit in a briefcase or even a needle. Now a team from Washington...
Women’s Vitamin Startup Ritual is Now Open for Orders, with $3.5M from investors
[Investing]
2016/10/20 11:05
Ritual, a Disrupt Battlefield startup with a focus on women’s nutrition, officially launched today.We first told you about the company aiming to make a better vitamin for women last spring when Ritual’s founder Kat Schneider came onstage to present her business model. She made it to the final rounds for the idea, ultimately losing out to an interactive gaming network that was quickly snatched...
