TREND REPORTS
(Video) Enter The Matrix! This iPad App Lets You "See" Wi-Fi Signals
[Design]
2015/09/13 11:03
The invisible world around us pulses with radio waves, an electromagnetic tide that washes over everything. If you could see it, everything around us would ripple with information, like dropping a tab of acid after watching The Matrix.The next best thing to that? The Architecture of Radio, a new exhibition by Dutch designer Richard Vijgen that uses an augmented reality iPad app to visualize the...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The New Global Competition for Corporate Profits
[Investing]
2015/09/10 10:43
The world’s biggest corporations have been riding a three-decade wave of profit growth, market expansion, and declining costs. Yet this unprecedented run may be coming to an end. Our new McKinsey Global Institute report, Playing to win: The new global competition for corporate profits, projects that the global corporate-profit pool, which currently stands at almost 10 percent of world GDP, cou...
The Pumpkin Flavor Trend Continues to Grow
[Product]
2015/09/10 10:42
According to Nielsen data, the pumpkin flavor trend continues to grow and has become an integral part of our fall diets. Last year, 37% of U.S. consumers purchased a pumpkin-flavored product. And this means big dollars: Pumpkin products accounted for $361 million in sales in the last year alone, having grown 79% since 2011.Pumpkin pie filling still dominates the market, with $135 million of sal...
How Traditional Media Giants Are Betting On Startup Investments
[Investing]
2015/09/10 10:42
Media's future is still up in the air, and big media players like Comcast and NewsCorp. are competing to make the right bets. AOL has made the most investments.The media industry has been one of the principal sectors disrupted by tech, as digital content and social networks completely transformed the cost and distribution models underlying the media business.This ongoing phenomenon has understa...
(Video) Magnetically-Connected Snap Drone Pops Apart on Crash Landings
[Product]
2015/09/10 10:42
The Snap drone is designed to fly – and to fly apart.Children of the 1970s may recall Kenner's Smash-Up Derby set, in which two toy cars flew into pieces when they crashed into each other – the neat thing was, they could then just be snapped back together. Well, Vantage Robotics' Snap is sort of like the Smash-Up Derby of drones. The 4K camera-packin' quadcopter's main body is attached to the...
Smallest 3-D Camera Offers Brain Surgery Innovation
[Tech]
2015/09/10 10:42
NASA scientists turbocharge 3-D imaging device for minimally invasive surgeries.To operate on the brain, doctors need to see fine details on a small scale. A tiny camera that could produce 3-D images from inside the brain would help surgeons see more intricacies of the tissue they are handling and lead to faster, safer procedures.An endoscope with such a camera is being developed at NASA's Jet...
245 Million Wearable Devices Will Be Sold in 2019
[Business]
2015/09/10 10:42
That's three times the 84 million sold in 2015.In 2019 as many as 245 million wearable devices will be sold, according to CCS Insight's latest wearable tech report, Wearables Forecast Worldwide, 2015 - 2019. For wearables, this number is huge. In 2015, the biggest sellers like Fitbit and Apple are selling around 4.4 million and 3.6 million devices a quarter respectively. And CCS predicts that b...
(Video) Japanese Paper Cutting Trick for Moving Solar Cells
[Tech]
2015/09/10 10:41
Dynamic kirigami structures capable of solar tracking, consisting of monolithically integrated, single crystalline yet flexible, gallium arsenide solar cells on polyimide sheets.To maximize the amount of electricity that solar cells generate, solar panels can be tilted to track the position of the sun over the course of a day. Conventional solar trackers can increase yearly energy generation by...
A Scooter Straight Out of the Vending Machine and Into Your Backpack
[Design]
2015/09/10 10:41
The No.5065 wants to redefine portability in that awkward phase between driverless cars and traffic jams.Folding into a tube-like shape that fits in your backpack, the No.5065 Scooter is one of many strategic approaches by designer Wang Yixing, in collaboration with a number of different transportation companies, to rethink urban commuting. Undergoing extensive research with travelers in mind,...
(PDF) BCG - The Make-or-Break Questions About Autonomous Vehicles
[Business]
2015/09/09 11:18
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) promise tremendous societal benefits. As shown in our previous report on the topic, Revolution in the Driver’s Seat: The Road to Autonomous Vehicles, the widespread adoption of AVs could eliminate the more than 30,000 annual U.S. road fatalities, improve travel time by as much as 40 percent, recover up to 80 billion hours lost to commuting and congestion, and reduce f...
TV Screens Are Getting Bigger and Bigger
[Business]
2015/09/09 11:18
Over the past decade and a half, television sets have undergone a radical transformation. The unbelievably heavy, bulky tube TV sets that used to be at the center of most living rooms until the early 2000s are (thankfully) a thing of the past, replaced by flat-panel TVs that are lighter, more energy efficient and allow for larger screen sizes.While CRT televisions are technically limited to scr...
(PDF) Airbnb Summer Travel Report 2015
[Business]
2015/09/09 11:18
Growth is up and to the right for Airbnb. Nearly 17 million people worldwide booked their guest stays with the peer-to-peer lodging platform this summer, according to a new travel report.That’s a whopping 353x’s surge in the last five years – and a far cry from the three guests Airbnb hosted before officially launching in the summer of 2008. Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia were j...
