TREND REPORTS
(PDF) BCG - The Most Innovative Companies 2019 : The Rise of AI
[Business]
2019/04/02 11:23
BCG’s latest innovation survey surfaces some big trends. Strong innovators are extending their edge over weaker rivals by embracing AI—in their products and services as well as in how they create them. They’re also increasingly looking to platforms and ecosystems as a way to benefit from external data, ideas, and capabilities. And there are some interesting shifts in this year’s roster of t...
IF Design Award 2019 Winner - Moto Stereo Mod
[Design]
2019/04/02 11:23
Rock out with the Moto Stereo Speaker Mod, the perfect companion for any party, hangout, or gathering. Conveniently snap the speaker onto the back of any Moto Z phone to deliver surprisingly powerful sound from the high-quality, double driver system. The Stereo Speaker Mod design is playful yet highly refined, sporting a colorful and durable exterior. The radial speaker pattern and circular ful...
(Infographic) What’s Next For Pop Culture In 2019
[Business]
2019/04/02 11:23
Over the last few months, our intelligence unit has been working hard to identify the biggest trends to watch in auto & mobility, retail, AI, wellness, and more. Now we’re serving up the stuff you really care about: pop culture.FWD: FROM YOUR PARENTSHIGH POPULARITY & LOW MEMEABILITYJOMO — Cancel your plans, curl up with your streaming subscription, go to bed an hour early — and embra...
(Paper) MIT's Robotic System Can Pick Up Items It has Never Encountered Before
[Tech]
2019/04/02 11:23
Called Keypoint Affordance Manipulation (KPAM), the researchers say the new control software can afford robots fair greater flexibility.One thing robots are pretty good at doing is, well, one thing over and over again. Confront them with objects of different shapes and sizes, and with different actions to perform and that's another story entirely. Looking to expand these possibilities, scientis...
Payments Technology Intersects with Mixed Reality for a $200B Market
[Business]
2019/04/02 11:22
Google, Facebook and Apple have dedicated massive budgets to building virtual and augmented reality hardware and software. Yet, there is very little understanding in Financial Services how such platform shifts will impact the products of industry participants. In a new analysis, we solve this $200 billion question by analyzing an emerging new market opportunity for “Mixed Commerce”, which we...
Pharmaceutical Jewelry ? Researchers Develop Earrings That Double as Contraceptives
[Tech]
2019/04/02 11:22
There are many forms of contraception: Some make you remember to take a pill at the same time every day, others require an invasive procedure, such as putting in an IUD. But what if family planning were as easy as wearing jewelry?A new study published in the Journal of Controlled Release proposes adding contraceptive patches to necklaces, earrings, wristwatches, and rings in the places where th...
The People and Process Behind Artificial Intelligence
[Consumer]
2019/04/02 11:22
Artificial intelligence gets a bad rap as a job killer and human-worker replacer. In some areas this is true, but in others, particularly surrounding how data are cleaned and processed, AI is spearheading new jobs. Data labeling and annotation is a burgeoning industry born from AI. Unstructured datasets from sources like cameras and social media data or structured sources, like databases, are l...
Olfactory Fashion : Unique Fragrance Options Arise
[Product]
2019/04/02 11:21
Scent has been a major player lately, with brands incorporating it into everything from billboards to scratch ‘n’ sniff packaging to cocktails. Innovations in perfume are giving wearers new options for fragrance, from visualizing it to wearing it to creating it themselves.Amkiri Modern youth are open-minded to body ornamentation—76% of Trendsetters either have or are interested in getting a...
(Patent) Microsoft Patent Describes a Persistence of Vision Augmented Reality Display
[Tech]
2019/04/01 10:33
Microsoft has filed a patent for a new type of mixed-reality head-mounted display (HMD) called a Persistence of Vision Augmented Reality Display. The display uses movable screens to simulate a 360 degree field of view.These screens can rotate back and forth, spin around a user's head, or spin in front of the user's eyes. The device isn't guaranteed to ever see the light of day, but hopefully so...
