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(PDF) Mckinsey : Thinking Inside The Subscription Box : New Research on e-Commerce Consumers
[Consumer]
2018/02/18 10:10
We surveyed thousands of US shoppers to understand subscription e-commerce trends. The findings have implications for start-ups, as well as retailers and consumer brand manufacturers entering the market.Subscription e-commerce, led by start-ups such as Dollar Shave Club, Blue Apron meal kits, and Stitch Fix personal styling, is a fast-growing new way of buying online. Our research shows that 15...
(PDF) MIT - Study Finds Gender and Skin-Type Bias in Commercial AI Systems
[Tech]
2018/02/18 10:09
Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.Three commercially released facial-analysis programs from major technology companies demonstrate both skin-type and gender biases, according to a new paper researchers from MIT and Stanford University will present later this month at the Conference on Fairness, Acco...
(PDF) UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index : The 8 Global Cities at Risk
[Investing]
2018/02/18 10:08
If you had $1 billion to spend on safe real estate assets, where would you look to buy?For many funds, financial institutions, and wealthy individuals, the perception is that the world’s financial centers are the places to be. After all, world-class cities like New York, London, and Hong Kong will never go out of style, and their extremely robust and high-density city centers limit the supply...
(Video) The AI-Powered Autonomous Selfie Drone Is Here - Skydio R1
[Product]
2018/02/18 10:07
It’s 2035, the Second American Civil War has been won by the other side, and you find yourself in a heap of trouble with Attorney General Logan Paul. (The future is very troubling.) He has dispatched an all-seeing eye-in-the-sky to tail you, an agile flying machine equipped with 13 cameras and a top speed of 25 miles per hour.The drone knows your face, you gait and your clothing. It hovers per...
The Ideal Smartphone is All Screen with No Buttons or Borders
[Design]
2018/02/18 10:06
Smartphone makers have had us drooling for years over the idea of a phone that's all screen, with no buttons or borders to interrupt the pure design.But try as they might, the concept hasn't exactly come to fruition. The most popular devices have come with extremely thin bezels — or, like the iPhone X, add a notch toward the top of the phone to house the camera and all its front-facing sensors...
The Death of Clothing
[Business]
2018/02/18 10:05
The apparel industry has a big problem. At a time when the economy is growing, unemployment is low, wages are rebounding and consumers are eager to buy, Americans are spending less and less on clothing.The woes of retailers are often blamed on Amazon.com Inc. and its vise grip on e-commerce shoppers. Consumers glued to their phones would rather browse online instead of venturing out to their lo...
Red-Dot Award : New Toy Uses AR to Teach About the Elements - Element Capsule
[Design]
2018/02/18 10:04
A new capsule toy uses augmented reality to help teach about the properties of the elements.Capsule toys, often sold in vending machines, are very popular with young children around the world. In Asia these toys are often called gashapon, an onomatopoeic word formed from the Japanese sound ‘gasha’ (or ‘gatcha’), for the hand-cranking action of a toy-vending machine. ‘Pon’ refers to the so...
Park-Like Green Office by 07beach Simulates Recreational Ground to Promote Productivity
[Design]
2018/02/18 10:03
The belief that a nice physical working environment promotes productivity has seen huge amounts invested into office design in the 21st century. From smaller shared work spaces to mega complexes like amazon’s recently opened spheres, for nature deprived city-dwellers the ‘green office’ has seen an evolution towards natural oases, believing that plant-form filled spaces further enhance our ab...
(PDF) Bain - Labor 2030 : The Collision of Demographics, Automation and Inequality
[Consumer]
2018/02/13 11:28
Demographics, automation and inequality have the potential to dramatically reshape our world in the 2020s and beyond. Our analysis shows that the collision of these forces could trigger economic disruption far greater than we have experienced over the past 60 years (see Figure 1). The aim of this report by Bain's Macro Trends Group is to detail how the impact of aging populations, the adoption...
