TREND REPORTS
(PDF) Deloitte - 2017 Holiday Retail Survey
[Business]
2017/11/21 11:05
An annual analysis of the peak shopping season.Holiday retail spending is bucking trends this season with only one-third of holiday budgets going toward gifts. Online spending is expected to exceed in-store for the first time. In addition to gifts for others this year, spending on experiences and self-gifting increased. Explore more consumer spending trends in our 32nd annual holiday survey.Hol...
Victoria's Secret is Struggling Because Women Want to be Comfortable
[Business]
2017/11/21 11:05
When you think about Victoria's Secret, you think push-ups, Miracle Bras and sexy lingerie. The problem for Victoria's Secret is that women don't want those anymore.In early 2016, Victoria's Secret doubled down on sexy underwear. It pulled its swimsuit and apparel collections off the shelves, slashed promotional deals and stopped printing the Victoria's Secret catalog. "The company walked away...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Changing The Channels Landscape to Satisfy Japanese Luxury Consumers’ Appetite for Novelty
[Consumer]
2017/11/21 11:05
What’s shifting in the world’s second-largest luxury market? To keep up, brands will need to confront challenges and explore new strategies.With most attention focused on China and its consumers’ massive appetite for luxury goods, or to a lower extent on South Korea as the new trendsetter for fashion and beauty, Japan has been less looked after.The perceived morose economic situation of the...
Logitech Made a VR Keyboard Kit So You Can Type in The Vive
[Tech]
2017/11/21 11:05
There May Be a Way to Use Your Keyboard in VR.Covering your eyes with a virtual-reality headset has its downsides—chief among them, perhaps, inability to see the real world. For many people, that makes the prospect of typing on a physical keyboard pretty tough. And even if you touch-type, heaven help you finding the keyboard again if you ever take your hands away from the keys to do something...
(Video) High Protein, High Fiber Snacks Made from Food Industry Byproducts Fight Obesity - Planetarians
[Product]
2017/11/21 11:04
Planetarians is giving a second life to wasted food, and tackling child nutrition and obesity at the same time.This company uses an extrusion and "steam explosion" technology to turn 'waste' food, namely byproducts of the food industry that don't otherwise get eaten by humans, into high protein, high fiber snacks that can help address the rising trend of child obesity. By starting with low-cost...
Continental Puts Augmented Reality Into The Windscreen with Its Head Up Display
[Tech]
2017/11/21 11:04
Lincoln motor company is putting continental’s ‘head-up display’ into production for the first time, allowing drivers to communicate even better with their vehicles in the future. head-up displays show all relevant information in the driver’s field of vision, reducing driver distraction and therefore making a significant contribution to enhanced comfort and safety.Continental’s ‘head up d...
The Next ‘Step’ In Shoe Design
[Design]
2017/11/21 11:04
Austin makes a great point in noticing how the future of sports footwear is in making right and left shoes that aren’t mirror images of each other. See the GIF below to notice how in a sport like fencing, the right and left leg have different pressure zones, resulting in a need where each shoe has a different role to play. His solution? Differently designed shoes for the left and right foot. U...
(Infographic) The Rise of Tesla
[Business]
2017/11/21 11:03
Priced at $17 per share just seven years ago, the Tesla IPO ended up being a total bargain for anyone lucky enough to get in.However, this view comes with the benefit of plenty of hindsight – and even Elon Musk would tell you that it wasn’t always obvious that the company would be around in 2017. There were periods of time when layoffs were rampant, the company’s payroll was covered by credi...
(PDF) Brookings Institution - Digitalization and the American Workforce
[Consumer]
2017/11/20 10:48
It’s no secret that computer software engineers get paid a lot. But how savvy you are with a computer affects your salary in jobs far outside computer science fields, according to a new report by the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program.The study found that in the last decade an increasingly broad range of jobs requires employees to work with computers on a daily basis, whether...
