TREND REPORTS
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...
Polaroid x ‘Mickey Mouse’ Roll Out Adorable, Vintage-Style Camera
[Design]
2018/11/27 09:04
You might have noticed numerous 2018 ‘Mickey Mouse’-themed collections being rolled out by brands this year. In case you haven’t heard, they are in celebration of 90 years of the Disney mascot, which first appeared on 15 May 1928. In addition to Swatch’s reimagination of the iconic character and Vans’ collaboration with four artists for its tribute collection, Polaroid has unveiled its own...
(Infographic) The Top Brands That Are Truly Capitalizing on Influencer Marketing
[Business]
2018/11/27 09:03
78% of fashion companies are implementing the tactic.Anyone with an Instagram account can see that brands are utilizing influencer marketing, but which brands are really capitalizing on it? Influencer marketing platform Mavrck analyzed the categories and brands dominating the trend as well as the growth of the influencer industry overall since 2014.iStock PhotoAnyone with an Instagram account c...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Generation Z and Its Implications for Companies
[Consumer]
2018/11/26 09:10
The influence of Gen Z—the first generation of true digital natives—is expanding.Long before the term “influencer” was coined, young people played that social role by creating and interpreting trends. Now a new generation of influencers has come on the scene. Members of Gen Z—loosely, people born from 1995 to 2010— are true digital natives: from earliest youth, they have been exposed to t...
(Patent) Amazon’s Drones will Obtain Depth Information with a Single Camera
[Tech]
2018/11/26 09:09
Majority of the drones nowadays are equipped with cameras that allow you to capture high resolution cinematic shots from unique perspectives. However, despite high resolution images captured by the drones, these images are two-dimensional and lack depth information.For capturing depth information, modern drones must be equipped with two or more cameras. Just like having two eyes gives us the ab...
(Infographic) Visualizing the Bear Market in FAANG Stocks
[Investing]
2018/11/26 09:08
Over recent years, there hasn’t been a safer bet than big tech – specifically the FAANG stocks, which include Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google’s parent company Alphabet. But in the financial world, this feeling of euphoria can be turned upside-down very quickly.Since the summer, the five tech giants combined have lost close to $1 trillion in market capitalization from their peaks...
Inside Nike’s Store of the Future
[Design]
2018/11/26 09:07
The new flagship in New York is a template for cities around the globe. Nike Inc. has seen the future of brick-and-mortar shopping, and it revolves around your phone.The company on Thursday opened a new flagship store in New York City, the culmination of years of internal research into personalized, experiential shopping. The six-floor building, a template for locations Nike has planned for cit...
