TREND REPORTS
Gravity Chopsticks 2.0 : Levitate Your Eating Experience
[Design]
2018/01/21 10:03
The world’s most innovative chopsticks with levitating eating tips.What are Gravity Chopsticks 2.0?After successfully launching the original Gravity Chopsticks Kickstarter, we decided it is time for the release of Gravity Chopsticks 2.0 (GC 2.0). Gravity Chopsticks are not your ordinary traditional chopsticks. They use the force of gravity to levitate the eating tips, keeping them sanitary wit...
(PDF) BCG - The Most Innovative Companies 2018 : Innovators Go All In On Digital
[Business]
2018/01/18 10:36
Among global innovators, only four factors increased in strategic importance this year. All were digital-related. BCG’s twelfth innovation report focuses on the ways digital is transforming products, services, and the processes that create them.At leading innovators, R&D and new-product development have become digital endeavors. Eleven of the fifty companies named in BCG’s 2018 ranking of...
How Much Money the Highest Paid CEOs in America Make
[Investing]
2018/01/18 10:36
The stock market continues to set record highs, and the Republican tax cut is about to hit workers’ paychecks in February. The new tax law also impacts skyrocketing executive compensation, which made us wonder how a CEO compensation correlates with the company’s financial performance. We created a new graph to find out.We took our numbers from 24/7WallSt, which tracks things like executive co...
The Internet Is In Love With Google’s Fine Art Selfie-Matching App
[Product]
2018/01/18 10:36
Does Google’s Arts & Culture app think you look like a Vermeer duchess? Or Goya’s terrifying Saturn?Last month, the Google Arts & Culture app released an experimental new feature that uses machine learning to match your selfies to famous paintings. After percolating for a few weeks, the feature took the internet by storm over the weekend, with many thousands of people sharing their re...
(PDF) Is Alexa Killing the Radio Star ?
[Product]
2018/01/18 10:35
Smart speakers and other voice-enabled smart devices were clearly among the stars of this year’s CES.Coinciding with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Edison Research and NPR released the latest edition of their joint Smart Audio Report, offering new research on how smart speakers are used. According to their estimates, 39 million Americans currently own a smart speaker, of which rou...
(M&A) BMW Acquires Parkmobile Parking App to Help Tackle City Traffic
[Investing]
2018/01/18 10:35
BMW has acquired Parkmobile, an app that provides guidance and services for those looking for parking in North America, including on-street and garage parking payments and spot reservation. BMW Group had already held a minority investment in the company, and owned its Parkmobile Group Europe affiliate, but today it increased its holdings to reach majority ownership of Parkmobile, LLC, which is...
(Video) AI Assistant Helps Detect Heart Attacks on Emergency Services Calls - Corti
[Tech]
2018/01/18 10:34
Corti helps medical personnel make critical decisions in the heat of the moment on calls to emergency services.Early recognition of cardiac arrest is vitally important as the chance of survival decreases about 10 percent with each minute. In Denmark AI assistant Corti is listening in to phone calls to emergency services to help detect signs of a heart attack. With Corti implemented, the dispatc...
Excavate The Hidden Architecture Models Inside These Unique Note Pads - The Omoshiro Block
[Design]
2018/01/18 10:33
The Omoshiro Block designed by Japanese architecture model company Triad.The Omoshiro Block is a note pad that unveils itself as it gets used revealing an architecture miniature hidden inside. Using laser-cutting technology, what appears as a regular cube of paper note cards eventually turns into an intricate miniature model. These unique note pads are designed by Japanese architecture model co...
(Infographic) Tesla’s Journey : From IPO to Passing Ford in Value, in Just 7 Years 5
[Business]
2018/01/18 10:33
In Tesla’s final years as a private company, things got pretty hectic.As we showed in Part 1: Tesla’s Origin Story, the launch of the Roadster was a public relations success, but it created all kinds of problems internally. There were massive cost overruns, a revolving door of CEOs, layoffs, and even a narrow escape from bankruptcy.Fortunately, by 2010 the company was able to forget these tro...
