TREND REPORTS
Brands Launch Highly Customized Beauty and Grooming Lines
[Product]
2019/02/12 10:40
A new wave of next-gen direct-to-consumer beauty brands are setting the current industry standard for customization with A.I.-driven platforms that glean deep insights from personalized data, offering customers products that are formulated for their highly specific and individual skincare needs.Curology Dermatology is a luxury that isn’t accessible to all skincare devotees, but Curology, a sta...
New York Beats Out San Francisco to Be World’s Best Tech City
[Business]
2019/02/12 10:39
Deep talent pool boosted city’s ranking, Savills report says. Amazon’s HQ2 plan for Long Island City shows NYC’s tech draw.Amazon.com Inc. might have the right idea: A new study shows New York City is the best place on the planet for technology.New York ranked first in an index measuring 30 global tech-heavy cities analyzed by real estate brokerage Savills Plc, with San Francisco in second p...
AI Helps Amputees Walk With a Robotic Knee
[Tech]
2019/02/12 10:39
Computer algorithms help prosthetics wearers walk within minutes rather than requiring hours of training.A movie montage for modern artificial intelligence might show a computer playing millions of games of chess or Go against itself to learn how to win. Now, researchers are exploring how the reinforcement learning technique that helped DeepMind’s AlphaZero conquer chess and Go could tackle an...
The Achilles Heel For EV Makers
[Business]
2019/02/12 10:39
Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more and more popular in most industrialized countries. Although conventional cars claim 99 percent of the market, the announcement of substantial investments by automakers in EVs signals a new era: Volkswagen is investing $40 billion in EV production, Daimler just announced a $23 billion battery order, and American firms are undergoing massive restructuring...
Groundbreaking Israeli Medical Device Treats Burns Without Ever Touching The Patient - Nanomedic
[Tech]
2019/02/12 10:39
Imagine being able to treat burn injuries without causing added pain to the burn victim when dressing a wound.An Israeli nanotechnology company focused on the development and manufacturing of portable electrospinning technology for medical applications, has created a device that does just that and more.Nanomedic Technologies Ltd, based in Lod, a city just outside of Tel Aviv, has developed a br...
Draw Attention to Your Clothing - Clothes Refresher
[Design]
2019/02/12 10:38
You can tell a lot about a person from the clothes they wear; clothing is an incredibly powerful method of expression, and for this reason, to a lot of people, their clothing is far more than a shield from external factors and the elements.And where better for these items of clothing to get stored than a sleek, attention-grabbing ‘Clothes Refresher’!Spot Light is a stunningly designed product...
(PDF) Accenture - 2019 Technology Trends Report
[Business]
2019/02/11 10:45
Digital transformation grants companies exceptional capabilities. But it also creates enormous expectations. - Amid these rising expectations, every business is investing in digital technologies, raising the question of how leaders will set themselves apart.- Companies looking to differentiate themselves must be aware of five distinct trends that will characterize the “post-digital” future.Wh...
(Patent) Dell could Make a Foldable Device That has 3 or 4 Screens
[Tech]
2019/02/11 10:45
Dell sees Microsoft’s dual-screen laptop and raises it another two displays. Dell is potentially working on another laptop with multiple screens, but this concept is looking to push things even further by utilizing three or four displays to make for an even greater level of flexibility compared to today’s 2-in-1s, or the many rumored dual-screen or foldable devices we’ve been hearing about o...
Oil Companies and Utilities are Buying Up All the Electric Car Charging Startups
[Investing]
2019/02/11 10:44
For decades, oil and gas companies and utilities dismissed electric cars. Now, the old petroleum and power giants are muscling into the driver’s seat of the “new fuels” industry.It’s projected to be a big business. McKinsey counts more than 350 new electric vehicle (EV) models debuting by 2025, one of the conditions for mass-market adoption. Global demand for gasoline is set to peak around...
