TREND REPORTS
Would You Send Your Kids To School On A Self-Driving School Bus
[Design]
2017/12/03 10:06
Meet Hannah, a concept for an autonomous bus that solves long-standing issues with school buses. But will parents ever trust an AV with their kids?The big yellow school bus, with its plastic seats, rubbery smell, and cool-kids-in-the-back social hierarchies, hasn’t gotten a true update in decades. What will happen to such an old-fashioned vehicle when our streets become flooded with driverless...
The Biggest Food Accounts on Instagram
[Consumer]
2017/12/03 10:05
According to analysis by InfluencerDB, there is a clear leader in the world of food on Instagram. The English celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, with over six million followers has by far the biggest food-based account. With such wide reach and exposure, should a marketer be lucky enough to sponsor one of his posts, InfluencerDB calculates that this would have a worth of $27,406. While this compares...
AR Gaming App Brings Wild Animals to Life
[Product]
2017/12/03 10:04
Nairobi startup hopes its app will educate gamers about animal habits and the danger of extinction.In the past 40 years, the world has lost 50 percent of its wildlife thanks to poaching and environmental upset. Despite most people’s love for animals, many still know little about their favourite wild creatures. Nairobi-based Internet of Elephants – a play on the commonly used phrase Internet o...
Monthly Trend Report - December. 2017 Edition
[Trendbird]
2017/12/03 10:03
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(PDF) Deloitte - 2017 Pre-Thanksgiving Holiday Retail Survey
[Business]
2017/11/27 10:10
Survey results highlight the 2017 holiday shopping trends.Thanksgiving weekend, the kick-off for holiday gift spending, often sets the tone for the holiday shopping season. This year consumer confidence is up and consumers are looking to increase holiday gift spending. While online is expected to pull more of shoppers’ budgets, there is still a healthy outlook for traffic in the stores, partic...
Givenchy VR Goggles : Imagine Fashion's Future Foray Into Augmented Reality
[Design]
2017/11/27 10:09
This year design has immersed itself in the the world of virtual reality – google launched an AR/VR library.Jeff koons displayed sculptures in hotspots all over the world using snapchat, and most recently vogue announced a partnership with apple to create VR fashion for the iphone X, so to imagine the industry’s future forays into the super-techy world of virtual and augmented reality doesn’...
This Chinese Tech Giant is Now Worth More Than Facebook
[Investing]
2017/11/27 10:08
Thanks to Tencent, Pony Ma overtook Alibaba’s Jack Ma to become the richest person in Asia.Facebook is no longer the world’s most valuable social network.Chinese technology giant Tencent, its share price bolstered by stronger-than-expected quarterly results, became the first Asian firm to join the club of publicly traded companies worth more than $500 billion. And in the process, ousted Faceb...
(Video) NASA Develops a Viable Alternative to the Pneumatic Tire
[Tech]
2017/11/27 10:07
NASA has developed the ‘superelastic tire’, a game changing compliant tire as a viable alternative to the pneumatic tire. created with future mars missions in mind, the tires could be used also here on earth. evolving from the ‘spring tire’ – invented by NASA glenn and goodyear – and referencing the ‘apollo lunar tires’, the tire uses shape memory alloys that are capable of undergoing h...
Better Batteries
[Tech]
2017/11/27 10:06
Hopes that renewable energy could blunt the worst of climate change used to face a seemingly insurmountable hurdle: the need for better batteries. After all, the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. But those better batteries are on their way, thanks to a myriad of small improvements that will add life to the phone in your pocket and speed the day when electric cars over...
