TREND REPORTS
Game-Changing Eye-Tracking Studies Reveal How We Actually See Architecture
[Tech]
2017/12/11 08:00
Using biometrics, two architectural researchers think they can help architects and planners design better cities.Architects know best, as they often claim. With conviction, they’re sure certain details will make a space more hospitable, more beautiful, more preferable, and more enjoyable. There’s rarely any empirical evidence to back up those assertions. But an emerging field of research is n...
25 Percent of Global Ad Spend Goes to Google or Facebook
[Business]
2017/12/11 08:00
Over the past two decades, advertisers have gradually shifted their budgets away from traditional media (e.g. TV, newspapers and magazines) towards online ads. The rise of the smartphone has only accelerated this shift, as smartphones have fundamentally changed the way that people consume content. Ad dollars have always followed eyeballs and thus it doesn’t come as a surprise that mobile ad sp...
The Latest Bull Case for Electric Cars: the Cheapest Batteries Ever
[Investing]
2017/12/11 07:59
Average price of lithium-ion battery pack: $209/kilowatt-hour. Prices are set to fall below below $100/kWh by 2025: BNEFThe kind of battery that powers electric vehicles is now the cheapest it’s ever been thanks to a global ramp-up in production.Lithium-ion battery packs are selling at an average price of $209 a kilowatt-hour, down 24 percent from a year ago and about a fifth of what it was in...
The Life Aquatic : Boutique Wellness Classes Invade The Pool
[Business]
2017/12/11 07:59
In recent years, water-based exercise classes have been making waves, providing a low impact, muscle building workout. As the boutique-fitness scene grows, specialty swim classes are diversifying, offering more dynamic options for pool time than swimming laps or water aerobics.Mindtravel Underwater MindTravel has been offering live-to-headphones “silent” musical experiences in settings like C...
A Bezel-Free MacBook
[Design]
2017/12/11 07:59
I’m excited and also a little sad to present to you Aurélien Salomon’s vision of the Macbook. Excited because it does such a marvelous job of streamlining Apple’s two product and experience lines (the desktop and mobile lines), and sad because this is purely conceptual.Following the latest smartphone trend, the Macbook also opts for a charming bezel-less display. Obviously, it has no notch,...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The State of Fashion 2018
[Business]
2017/12/10 10:10
After a challenging stretch, has fashion turned the corner? Things are looking up, but the rebound may be uneven, says this year’s The State of Fashion report.There is general agreement that 2016 was one of the most challenging years the fashion industry has ever seen. But we are now detecting glimmers of hope: executives report optimism (even amid uncertainty), and the McKinsey Global Fashion...
Pantone’s Color Of The Year Is Here, And It’s As Nebulous As 2018 Looks
[Design]
2017/12/10 10:09
Terrifying or exciting? Ultra violet could be either.It’s the color Prince crooned about, the color of royals, the color of clairvoyants–and the color Pantone has anointed as the embodiment of the coming year. The official color of 2018 is a saturated, intense, blue-toned shade of purple called Ultra Violet, also known as Pantone 18-3838.“Purple is a complex color,” Lee Eiseman, executive d...
Rinspeed Snaps Its All-Electric Mobility Pod Into CES-Ready Form
[Design]
2017/12/10 10:08
Inside Rinspeed's Snap pod is soft leather seating, storage space, wireless charging systems and a host of screens. Few vehicle concepts get the juices flowing like those from the tinkerers at Rinspeed, who like to tug at the strings of future mobility with crazy amphibious street machines and transparent, hard-topped sports cars. The Swiss automaker has now shared a new details about its lates...
80% of Instagram Users Voluntarily Connect With a Brand on the Platform
[Tech]
2017/12/10 10:07
It wants to 'shrink the distance between businesses and customers'Instagram is already attracting the kids. Now it's become the hip place for businesses too. The number of companies that have created profiles on Instagram is surging, as we can see in this chart from Statista. Meanwhile, the number of companies that are advertising on Facebook's photo-sharing service has doubled in just six mont...
