TREND REPORTS
(Video) Self-Driving Wheelchairs Debut in Hospitals and Airports
[Tech]
2017/08/22 11:11
Autonomous vehicles can add a new member to their ranks—the self-driving wheelchair. This summer, two robotic wheelchairs made headlines: one at a Singaporean hospital and another at a Japanese airport.The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, or SMART, developed the former, first deployed in Singapore’s Changi General Hospital in September 2016, where it successfully navigated...
How My Beauty Matches Is Using Machine Learning To Disrupt The $445 Billion Beauty Market
[Business]
2017/08/22 11:11
My Beauty Matches is known for being the world’s first personalized beauty product recommendation and price comparison website using proprietary machine learning and AI technology. Founded by Nidhima Kohli, My Beauty Matches and its Beauty Matching Engine technology allows users to compare prices on over 400,000 products from over 3,500 brands. But its unique selling point is that it offers co...
What it Means to be 'Clean' in Today’s FMCG Market
[Consumer]
2017/08/22 11:11
As all marketers are well aware, today’s consumers are more educated than ever, largely because they have access to more information than ever—and that’s only going to continue. So when it comes time to shop, consumers are putting that knowledge to use, and they’re making their selections carefully and for specific purposes. They’re also willing to pay for products that meet their specific...
Urban Tour-X A Transportation Design For Touring
[Design]
2017/08/22 11:11
Urban Tour – X (UT-X) is a futuristic concept transportation for tourist district. It’s an urban vehicle where tourists can easily lease and use to cruise around certain areas. User can ride this vehicle half standing position, that’s what makes the vehicle design so compact, reducing waste of space. The idea here is to allow users to maintain original walk point of view. The steering wheel...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Chinese Luxury Consumers : More Global, More Demanding, Still Spending
[Consumer]
2017/08/21 10:47
Even as growth slows, there’s a sizable, and sophisticated, pool of luxury shoppers in China. But brands need to take a new approach to keep them interested.With luxury consumption dropping in 2016 to its lowest level since 2009, much attention has been focused on one of the biggest forces in global luxury spending: Chinese consumers. As the Chinese economy slows, and growth in luxury consumpt...
Netflix Co-Founder’s Next Disruptive Service, Moviepass Offers Daily Movie Tickets For $10 Per Month
[Business]
2017/08/21 10:46
MoviePass allows subscribers to see movies in theaters for a low monthly fee, following in Netflix's footsteps.Netflix has more people watching movies and TV at home than ever before, but one of the company’s founders wants to get people off the couch and out the door to watch films the old-fashioned way: at the theater. Rich Lowe, Netflix co-founder and former president of Redbox, certainly k...
The Rise and Rise of China’s Tech Trinity
[Business]
2017/08/21 10:46
Profits of Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu keep surging but they are vulnerable.China’s tech titans have blown earnings forecasts out of the water in the latest quarter, propelling their shares higher.Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, collectively known as BAT — along with ecommerce group JD.com, microblogging-turned-livestreaming platform Weibo, and online gaming group NetEase — are riding a wave of C...
New Weighted Blankets Offer Stress and Insomnia Relief
[Product]
2017/08/21 10:46
Weighted blankets, which have been shown to provide relief to those experiencing anxiety, stress, and insomnia, are experiencing a resurgence. While they’ve long been used as a therapy technique, young consumers are driving their mainstream adoption, given their focus on mental health and desire to combat their sleep struggles. As young people are investing in products and services that enhanc...
Fortune 500 Tech Investment Trends
[Investing]
2017/08/21 10:46
Trends in how Fortune 500 corporations are investing in and acquiring technology companies. Tech investments by non-tech incumbents are on pace for a new annual high. Between 2013 and 2016, private tech investments by non-tech Fortune 500 corporations grew 149%. Goldman Sachs is the most active non-tech investor.Tech investments by non-tech corporations are on pace to surpass that of tech corpo...
