TREND REPORTS
U.S. App Store Revenue on Black Friday Grew 31% from 2017 to $52 Million, Setting a Single-Day Record
[Business]
2018/12/03 11:00
U.S. consumers spent an estimated $52 million on Apple’s App Store this Black Friday, setting a new single-day revenue record for the store. This marked an increase in spending of 31.6 percent over last year’s Black Friday, when gross revenue on the store hit an estimated $39.5 million, and 31 percent more than Christmas 2017’s $39.8 million spent, Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data shows....
This Futuristic Car could Solve a Multibillion-Dollar Problem Facing Amazon, Walmart, and Target
[Business]
2018/12/03 11:00
The company behind Walmart's pickup towers has developed a self-driving car that delivers packages to homes and businesses.The car uses a robotic arm to place the packages in pickup lockers outside homes and businesses. Eventually, it will be able to deliver to mailboxes and pickup towers as well.Autonomous delivery could be a boon for retailers, which have seen shipping costs balloon in recent...
Monthly Trend Report - December. 2018 Edition
[Trendbird]
2018/12/03 09:01
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(PDF) Mckinsey - Tech-Enabled Transformation : The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity for Industrials
[Business]
2018/11/27 09:10
Applying digital, analytics, and IoT technologies is worth over a trillion dollars of value for industrial companies. To capture that value, however, industrial companies need to approach their transformations holistically, not in the piecemeal manner that we often see.Applying digital, analytics, and IoT technologies is worth over a trillion dollars of value for industrial companies. To captur...
(PDF) MIT'S RFIQ : Food Quality and Safety Detection Using Wireless Stickers
[Tech]
2018/11/27 09:09
MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential food contamination.Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billi...
(Video) Engineers Fly First-Ever Plane with No Moving Parts - Ion Drive
[Tech]
2018/11/27 09:08
Undistorted camera footage from flight 9, with position and energy from camera tracking annotated. Sped up 2x.Since the first airplane took flight over 100 years ago, virtually every aircraft in the sky has flown with the help of moving parts such as propellers, turbine blades, and fans, which are powered by the combustion of fossil fuels or by battery packs that produce a persistent, whining b...
EVs Set to Become the Biggest Battery Users
[Business]
2018/11/27 09:07
By 2030 nearly eight out of every 10 batteries sold will be in an electric vehicle.Consumer gadgets will drop down the ranks of lithium-ion battery users in coming years. Not because they won’t need the power -- they will -- but because they’ll be overtaken by an onslaught of electric vehicles and, toward 2030, by stationary storage for wind and solar power, according to Bloomberg NEF. By the...
How The UPS Store Is Reinventing The Shipping Experience
[Business]
2018/11/27 09:06
Catering to a growing number of 'micro small-business' customers and millennials, the company aims to turn shipping into a memorable retail experience, and bring the shipping store into the 21st century.Despite threats of disruption, it’s an exciting time to be in the shipping and logistics industry. As online shopping booms, the expeditious shipping and receiving of packages becomes an increa...
Silentmode’s PowerMask is a $200 Connected Relaxation Mask
[Product]
2018/11/27 09:05
The SILENTMODE™ PowerMask™ with Beats by Breathonics™ is the fastest, easiest way to improve your mindset.I barely slept my second night at Chunking Mansions. The loud neighbors, the hot Hong Kong air, the landlord banging on the door after midnight: None of these things are particularly conducive to a peaceful rest, and for once in my life I actually looked forward to attempts at shut eye o...
