TREND REPORTS
AI Gadgets Are Bad Right Now but Their Promise Is Huge
[Product]
2025/12/17 09:07
Glasses, pendants, bracelets—our columnist tested many smart wearables this year so you don’t waste your money.Somehow I lost my only Friend.I know what you’re thinking: You must be a terrible person. How did you let that happen?! The answer: When it’s a poker-chip-size gadget that adds no value to my life, it’s pretty easy.Friend was one of eight AI wearables I tried this year. Like so ma...
Next-Gen Supersonic Jet Engine Gets A Much Less Glamorous Job
[Tech]
2025/12/17 09:05
The hot trends of civilian supersonic flight and artificial intelligence collide as Boom Supersonic announces that, as a new revenue stream, the core technology of its Mach 1+ Symphony jet engine has been adapted to run power-hungry AI data centers.Boom Supersonic has made great strides in recent years toward fulfilling its ambition to get its Overture supersonic airliner off the ground. The pr...
(Infographic) Which Country Consumes the Most Coffee ?
[Consumer]
2025/12/17 09:04
This visualization ranks 65 countries by their daily coffee consumption per capita in 2025, showing how drinking habits differ around the world. The table also includes data on lifetime coffee consumption and average cup prices. The data for this ranking comes from Cafely. Europe Continues to Dominate Global Coffee Consumption Northern Europe remains the global center of coffee drinking. Luxemb...
Ori Frameless Folding Umbrella Shrinks a Full-Size Canopy Into a Pocket
[Design]
2025/12/17 09:03
Meet Ori, the umbrella that looked at every broken, inside-out street casualty and basically said, “absolutely not.”Every year we chuck more than a billion busted umbrellas into landfills, all because the classic rib-and-frame design has the structural integrity of wet spaghetti. So the folks behind Ori did the unthinkable: they ditched the ribs entirely. No skeleton. No spines. Just pure, pr...
(Patent) Apple Introduces Next-Gen Gaze Tracking for Future Vision Pro and Smartglasses
[Tech]
2025/12/16 09:10
Apple’s newly published patent application, US A1, reveals a breakthrough in gaze tracking technology by combining direct eye views with reflections captured through specialized lenses. This dual-view approach marks a significant advancement over Apple’s current gaze tracking systems, which rely primarily on direct imaging of the pupil and cornea.By integrating reflections into the tracking p...
Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy and Will Go Private
[Product]
2025/12/16 09:09
iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier.The Massachusetts-based consumer robot maker, which is currently listed, will be taken over by China’s Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co. and a subsidiary of the Chinese firm, according to a press release. The...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Net Revenue Retention Advantage : Driving Success in B2B Tech
[Business]
2025/12/16 09:08
As AI takes over the technology world, enterprise software companies of all sizes, from legacy providers to venture-backed software-as-a-service (SaaS) players, face unprecedented pressure from customers and investors to prove their worth. B2B tech customers are scrutinizing budgets more closely and demanding clear evidence of the value they are getting from their spend. Our latest B2B Pulse re...
Bringing K-Beauty to Black and Brown Skin
[Business]
2025/12/16 09:07
As K-beauty’s global fanbase becomes more diverse, newcomer K+Brown is hoping to invite more customers into the fold with products designed for darker skin tones. It enters a dynamic, yet complex, category.K-Beauty’s global fanbase includes many Black and brown consumers, yet most Korean skincare is still formulated and clinically tested primarily on lighter East Asian skin.New brand K+Brown,...
Students Challenge Auto Industry With Modular EV You Can Fix Yourself
[Product]
2025/12/16 09:06
A team of students from the Netherlands has demonstrated that it is possible to produce an affordable electric vehicle (EV) that owners can maintain and repair themselves, even with minimal mechanical expertise.The car is called ARIA — “Anyone Repairs It Anywhere” — and is the tenth electric vehicle prototype created at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands. Previous...
