TREND REPORTS
(Video) BMW's 7 Series Lets You Park by Remote Control
[Tech]
2015/04/21 11:34
If you're looking at a BMW's deluxe 7 Series, the 2016 model will awe your yacht club pals with some Bond-worthy gadgets. The remote control parking appears to be a first for a production vehicle, even though we've seen it demo'd by Volvo, Audi and BMW before. When you use the touchscreen-equipped BMW Display Key, it'll squeeze itself into (and out of) a parking space in a fully automatic proce...
(PDF) Beating the Best : 8 Characteristics of Winners in the Shale Arena
[Business]
2015/04/21 11:34
Over the past 10 to 15 years, many energy companies, including nearly all of the majors and numerous independents, have tried to jump on the “shale train” to take advantage of the glut of natural gas and oil locked in tight U.S. rock. While the resulting surge in development?in 2013, the U.S. overtook Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s largest producer of hydrocarbons?has been a b...
Temperature-Regulating Fabric Moves to the Runway - HotSquash
[Product]
2015/04/21 11:34
HotSquash offers fashion-forward, high-tech clothing line that takes on high and low temps.Temperature regulating clothing isn’t exactly new?it’s been a feature of high-end athletic gear since late last century?but HotSquash‘s line has moved the feature to clothes more suitable for the runway.HotSquash offers two lines: one for summer that keeps you cool, and another for winter that keeps yo...
(Infographic) The Landscape of Customer Identity
[Business]
2015/04/21 11:34
Facebook continues to dominate the social media login market. Nearly two-thirds of people who use social networks to authenticate their identities on web sites and mobile apps use Facebook, according to customer management firm Gigya’s first quarter report.Gigya now puts Facebook’s share at 64%, an increase of three percentage points since the fourth quarter of 2014. It’s a familiar refrain....
Simple Sample : Federal Grant Advances Pain-Free Blood Tests
[Tech]
2015/04/21 11:33
A company with deep roots at UW-Madison wants to make blood sampling less painful and more convenient. Tasso Inc. is perfecting a device the size of a pingpong ball that extracts a small sample while held against the skin for two minutes.During this time, a slight vacuum in the device enables a small sample of blood to flow into an attached sample tube, which can be mailed or handed to a lab. U...
The Astonishing Comeback, and Undeniable Insignificance, of Vinyl
[Business]
2015/04/21 11:33
From east London, to Brooklyn, to Tokyo and far beyond, thousands of music enthusiasts flocked to record stores around the world on April 18 to buy vinyl albums made by their favorite artists.It was the ninth annual Record Store Day, a wildly successful promotion conceived of in 2007 by a group of music shops in the US, which later spread abroad, as a way to keep independent record stores afloa...
Native Advertising Measurement Is All Over The Map
[Business]
2015/04/21 11:31
So-called native advertising is the shiny new object in digital media. Publishers love selling it, and marketers are increasing their investments in it.According to eMarketer predictions, native ad spending in the U.S. will grow 34% in 2015 to reach $4.3 billion. Publishers from Web startups like Buzzeed to major newspapers including the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal now publish na...
(Infographic) What’s In The Air We Breathe?
[Consumer]
2015/04/21 11:31
More than you eat, more than you drink, more than you do anything else in your life, you breathe. It’s the one thing, other than maybe your heartbeat, that continues to happen even when you aren’t thinking about it. But even if you aren’t telling yourself, in your head, “Breathe in, breathe out,” you should definitely be thinking about the air around you! Pollutants in the air are too smal...
(PDF) Disney Research Develops New Fabric 3D Printer
[Tech]
2015/04/20 15:17
A new paper from Disney Research, “A Layered Fabric 3D Printer for Soft Interactive Objects-Paper,” penned by Huaishu Peng (of Disney Research Pittsburgh and Cornell University), Jen Mankoff (of Carnegie Mellon University), Scott E. Hudson (of Disney Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University), and James McCann (of Disney Research Pittsburgh), details a whole new kind of 3D printer.Un...
Mckinsey - Will China Get Fat Before It Gets Rich ?
[Business]
2015/04/20 15:17
The rising wave of obesity around the world and its health and economic costs cannot be ignored?even in China. This is no longer a “western” problem. Today, 62 percent of the world’s obese people are in developing countries.Global scourgeMore than 2.1 billion people?nearly 30 percent of the global population?are overweight or obese today. That’s nearly two and a half times the number of adu...
Airbus Reveals A380 'Budget Economy' Seating, 11-Across Squeeze
[Design]
2015/04/20 11:57
Airbus is ready to pack even more economy passengers into its A380 superjumbo with a tight-fitting '11 across' seating option.Forget about the cheap seats being grouped in a 3-4-3 layout: Airbus has squeezed an extra seat into the centre row to create a 3-5-3 configuration. Here's the official Airbus PR pic, showing the middle seat which nobody will want to be stuck in.The photo below ? snapped...
What Kind of Fin Tech Startups is JP Morgan Chase Investing In ?
[Investing]
2015/04/20 11:56
JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon has warned that Silicon Valley is coming. His firm is meeting the challenge head-on investing in many Fin Tech startups in areas ranging from lending tech to robo-advisors.In his annual shareholder letter, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sounded the alarm on a wave of Fin Tech startup competitors coming after traditional banking.While Dimon’s letter implied future partne...
