TREND REPORTS
'Google Visual Assistant' - The Next Development for Personal Assistants ?
[Design]
2019/03/05 10:49
Smart Speakers are gradually making themselves more known within our lives, with an array of smart-devices now available to choose from. However, the Google Visual Assistant concept brings a new layer of communication to the table… Visual Artificial Intelligence.Designed to use the capabilities of Google’s artificial intelligence and speech and sound recognition, this captivating projector op...
(Patent) Apple Patent Hints at AR Headset That'll Work with your iPhone
[Tech]
2019/03/04 11:13
The wide-ranging patent application for augmented reality tech hints at a possible headset from the iPhone maker.Apple's interest in augmented reality (AR) is revving up.That's the message behind a 292 page patent application the tech giant filed in August last year, detailing "an augmented reality environment," including using the technology on an iPhone, and potentially a headset as well.Perh...
JAB Upends Coffee Trading
[Business]
2019/03/04 11:12
The owner of Peet’s and Pret a Manger is pressuring suppliers already ground down by low prices.Brazil, guatemala or Kenya are the sorts of exotic locations that most people would associate with the cup of coffee that kickstarts their day. But increasingly it is Luxembourg that is providing the coffee business with an industrial shot of caffeine. jab Holding, a private-investment company based...
Mojio Raises $40M to Monetize Connected Car Data
[Investing]
2019/03/04 11:12
There will be an estimated 200 million connected cars on the world’s roads by 2020, a number that could rise to nearly 500 million in the U.S., Europe, and China alone by 2025. One of the big by-products of all these connected automobiles is data — location data, diagnostic data, drivers’ behavioral data, and more — which presents a lucrative opportunity for myriad applications and services...
Are Beer Sales Declining Carbs Push Drinkers To Wine, Tequila
[Business]
2019/03/04 11:12
U.S. drinkers ordering vodka sodas don’t want all the calories and carbs.At a recent frat party in the backroom of a Manhattan bar, beer was scarce. Students were instead sipping a more popular concoction that might make some drinkers’ stomachs churn: tequila with soda water.James Houk, 21, was drinking a gin-and-tonic. The Columbia University senior’s friends say they’ll still buy a 30-rac...
FedEx’s Autonomous Delivery Robot will Begin Rolling Out Summer 2019
[Product]
2019/03/04 11:12
FedEx this summer plans to begin testing a robot to handle home deliveries for partners ranging from Walmart to Pizza Hut.Shippers, retailers and restaurants are experimenting with robots, drones and self-driving cars in a bid to use automation to drive down the high cost of delivering gadgets, groceries and even cups of coffee the “last mile” to consumer doorsteps.FedEx is teaming up with De...
Generation Z is Stressed, Depressed and Exam-Obsessed
[Consumer]
2019/03/04 11:12
For most youngsters getting good grades is a bigger worry than drinking or unplanned pregnancies.MOVE OVER, millennials. Young people now belong to “Generation Z”: a cohort which demographers usually define as people born since 1997. Researchers have devoted lots of effort to understanding the attitudes and experiences of people born in the 1980s and early 1990s (that is, millennials or gener...
The Quadra Riding Suitcases
[Design]
2019/03/04 11:11
The Quadra is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2018.Admitted it’ll take a while for ‘riding suitcases’ to become a norm of sorts, but the Quadra is ideal for people who can’t lug their luggage around with them. Whether it’s a traveler with fatigue, a flyer who’s running late for a flight, or perhaps the noblest scenario, an elderly traveler or a traveler with spec...
Monthly Trend Report - March. 2019 Editiion
[Trendbird]
2019/03/04 11:11
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