Monthly Trend Report - October. 2018 Edition
[Trendbird]
2018/10/01 07:38
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(PDF) IKEA - Self-Driving Cars and the Future of Urban Mobility
[Business]
2018/09/26 09:10
Forget what you know about sleek self-driving cars. In the hands of IKEA’s think tank, autonomous vehicles look like cheerful, bright-colored living rooms on wheels.With fully autonomous vehicles expected to hit the road as early as 2022, IKEA sees a way into the potential trillion-dollar sector by recasting self-driving units as rooms instead of passenger cars. “We don’t have ambitions of m...
Israel’s Trigo Vision Wants To Bring The Amazon Go Shopping Experience To All Retail Stores
[Tech]
2018/09/26 09:09
Amazon Go, the first automated supermarket to disrupt the retail industry, just announced its fourth cashier-free location in Chicago this week. It’s the first location outside of the e-commerce giant’s hometown of Seattle — where three other stores have already been set up — and it’s one of six expected to open this year in cities like New York and San Francisco.Amazon’s groundbreaking c...
The Global Wearables Market Is All About the Wrist
[Business]
2018/09/26 09:08
In the wake of the smartphone and tablet boom, many experts predicted wearable devices to be the next big thing in consumer technology. And to a certain degree they were right: global smartwatch shipments more than tripled since 2015 and fitness tracking armbands are as popular as they are affordable. However, speaking of a wearables boom in general seems like a stretch when considering the num...
Future Robo-Taxis Could Charge Themselves and Help Balance The Electric Grid
[Tech]
2018/09/26 09:07
Wireless startup WiTricity wants cars to power up without human help and feed utilities energy during peak demand.Electric robo-taxis are a real possibility. Trends in transportation, energy, and demographics indicate that future vehicles will operate autonomously, run on electricity rather than fossil fuels, and be shared instead of privately owned.But before everyone can carpool in self-drivi...
American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up
[Consumer]
2018/09/26 09:06
Home cooking would be making a comeback if it ever really went away.. Per-person restaurant visits dropped to 28-year low in 2018. Chick-fil-A is trying enchilada kits to capitalize on trend.Restaurants are getting dinged by the convenience of Netflix, the advent of pre-made meals, the spread of online grocery delivery, plus crushing student debt and a focus on healthy eating. Eighty-two percen...
(Video) 3D Printed Chair That Mimics Unicellular Organisms - Radiolaria # 1
[Design]
2018/09/26 09:05
‘Radiolaria #1’ is a real size 3D printed model of a chair by lilian van daal is made out of a single material that mimics unicellular natural structures. these structures incorporate all functionalities — flexibility, adaptability, firmness, and stability — necessary for the comfort of a chair. With radiolaria #1, van daal proceeds with her quest to improve, adjust and innovate the produc...
When Facebook Goes Down, People Go Read the News
[Consumer]
2018/09/26 09:04
What happens when internet users can’t go on Facebook? Some turn to other social media platforms to joke about it. A lot of them, it turns out, spend that time reading the news.When Facebook experienced a 45-minute outage on Aug. 3 in many parts of the world, traffic to news websites sharply spiked, according to a data from Chartbeat, a firm used by many major news publishers to track traffic...
(Video) Air Purifier to Utilize as a Side Table - AIREA
[Design]
2018/09/26 09:03
With the living population within cities ever on the rise, an ever-increasing number of individuals are living in a studio or one-bedroom apartments. One of the most significant issues that these people face is the difficulty they have when trying to refresh the interior air! Introducing a conventional air purifier into the living space is a huge compromise on the valuable floor space, and for...