TREND REPORTS
5 Strange Facts About Billionaires
[Investing]
2016/04/20 11:13
Things you don’t know about some of the richest people in the world.This year, the world’s billionaires clocked in an aggregate net worth of $6.48 trillion, according to the Forbes Billionaires list released this month, with the usual suspects topping the list – including Bill Gates ($75 billion), Inditex ITX, +2.16% founder Amancio Ortega ($67 billion) and Berkshire Hathaway’s BRK.B, +1.09...
Flexible e-Skin Display Is Thinner Than Saran Wrap and Tracks Blood Oxygen Levels
[Tech]
2016/04/20 11:13
The e-skin developed at the University of Tokyo is just three micrometers thick. From displays that curve to screens that swerve, flexible electronics is fast developing area of technology that promises to put a new twist on the way we absorb information. Bending televisions are an early example of this being adapted to the consumer world, and if a team of Japanese researchers has its way elect...
(Video) 3D Fashion Project Set to Revolutionize Clothing Industry
[Tech]
2016/04/20 11:13
The collaborative project aims to develop a one-step process for creating 3D-printed clothing items. A new partnership between Loughborough University in the UK and garment manufacturer the Yeh Group aims to kick 3D printed fashion into gear. The idea is to cut out the waste of the clothing industry and hopefully arrive at the project's eventual goal, which is to provide a system for personaliz...
Where is The Most Expensive Real Estate in The World ?
[Investing]
2016/04/20 11:12
OK, so it's not a question many of us will need to ask ourselves, but bear with me: if you had $1m to spend on prime residential property, where would you spend it?In its regular Wealth Reports, estate agency and property consultancy Knight Frank describes "Prime property" (also called luxury or prestige property) as follows:The most desirable, and normally most expensive, property in a defined...
(Video) A Hair Growth Device Resembling Headphones Has Surfaced - Hairmax
[Product]
2016/04/20 11:12
A Cure for Baldness? Hairmax Laserband 82 is Purportedly the Answer: New laser technology claims to regrow hair.Every year at the Consumer Electronics Show thousands of cool new ideas and products emerge. It’s like Kickstarter on steroids with innovation just around every corner. Some ideas and products are better than others, but it’s a dazzling array that can almost overwhelm the senses whe...
Portal Telemedicine Headset by Jonathan Stewart
[Design]
2016/04/20 11:12
Telemedicine is a process in which a patient can communicate with a doctor online and is becoming increasingly popular as an efficient and convenient method to consult with a medical practitioner.In a time where worldwide healthcare systems are overburdened and the average family is increasingly stressed on finances and time it makes sense to utilize the convenience of online services. Telemedi...
(PDF) McKinsey iConsumer China 2016 - How Savvy, Social Shoppers Are Transforming E-commerce
[Consumer]
2016/04/19 10:44
With the most Internet users of any country, China is the world’s largest and fastest-growing e-commerce market. Capitalizing on opportunities, however, is becoming harder for consumer-facing companies as e-commerce penetration rates plateau in high-tier cities and as digital attackers, especially in the online-to-offline space, cut into incumbents’ margins.According to McKinsey’s latest sur...
(Video) SignAloud Will Turn Sign Language Into Words
[Tech]
2016/04/19 10:44
Two university students have won a $10,000 prize after coming up with a clever wearable that will turn sign language motions into spoken language.According to Phys.org Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor came up with a pair of gloves which record hand position and movement and transmit the data wirelessly over bluetooth to a computer, where algorithms are used to figure out what is being said. This is...
China's Crowded Smartphone Market Heads for an Epic Shakeout
[Business]
2016/04/19 10:44
As the economy slows and saturation takes hold, half of 300-plus domestic brands may disappear."The mobile-phone industry changed more quickly and brutally than expected," Dakele Chief Executive Officer Ding Xiuhong said on his Weibo messaging account. "As a startup, we couldn’t find more strategies and methods to break through."Smartphone sales in China exploded earlier this decade as incomes...
(Video) Adtile Raises $2M to Rethink Mobile Ads
[Investing]
2016/04/19 10:44
Mobile ad startup Adtile is announcing that it has raised an additional $2 million in funding. That’s an extension of the $4.5 million Series A that Adtile raised back in 2014, and it comes from undisclosed investors.The San Diego-based startup focuses on a format it calls Motion Ads, allowing marketers to take advantage of smartphone capabilities like the GPS and accelerometer to create ads t...
(Video) Glowee - Sustainable Light from Bacteria
[Tech]
2016/04/19 10:44
Glowee is the light from the sea. A living lighting energy, needing no electricity, emitting very few CO2 and light pollution. A light coming directly from nature, at the crossroads of biomimicry and synthetic biology, ready to revolutionize our way to produce, consume and light up.Glowee develops a biological source of light, using natural properties of marine micro-organisms. The goal: to dis...
KFC Japan has Turned it Up a Notch with All Class and more Deliciousness
[Business]
2016/04/19 10:44
KFC is no doubt very popular among many people in Japan, especially when it comes to its succulent chicken. You can almost say that this fast food chain has become the embodiment of chicken in the country.Now add in a bit of Japanese creativity to the fast food chain with a single idea recreating the entire establishment. Check out the remodeled KFC branch in Takadanobaba, now labeled KFC+ Cafe...
