TREND REPORTS
Ingenious Titanium Ring Aims to Replace Your Tape Measure - Tiroler
[Product]
2023/11/08 09:04
While everyday carry (EDC) multitools are great at many things, they can fall short in the measuring department. The new titanium Tiroler ring fixes that by adding the ability to take measurements to your EDC kit, with a smart portable design.You know the issue. Even if your EDC multitool has a ruler built into it, it's usually not very long, so you wind up measuring things in three- or four-in...
Service Robot Mobile Robotics by Hyundai Motor Company
[Design]
2023/11/08 09:03
After acquiring Boston Dynamics, Hyundai Motor Company has sharpened its focus on advancing robotics technology to enhance our lives, especially through mobility solutions.Next Generation Service Robot is in category where robots would be useful in our lives. In the past, this type of robots has limited applications, but now, these robots would become part of the community in fact, they can bec...
(PDF) Art Basel & UBS - The Survey of Global Collecting 2023
[Business]
2023/11/07 09:10
The report presents the results of research on the activities and attitudes of high-net-worth (HNW) art collectors in mid-2023, when continued economic uncertainty in many major art markets a significant factor weighing on buyer optimism. Factors such as higher interest rates potentially affect the demand for art, however, there has been little comprehensive research on how these and other econ...
Sam Altman Backs Teens’ AI Startup Automating Browser-Native Workflows - Induced AI
[Investing]
2023/11/07 09:09
Sam Altman, Peak XV, and Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman’s AI grant are among backers of an AI startup, founded by two teenagers, that’s aiming to assist businesses in automating numerous workflows in previously unexplored ways.Induced AI, founded this year, enables businesses to input their workflows in plain English, subsequently converting the instructions into pseudo-code in real time for n...
The Billionaires' Brand Emporium
[Business]
2023/11/07 09:08
The people who have built some of the world's most successful and influential companies have earned the extra cash that has enabled them to found and acquire - more companies and brands. However, the world's richest billionaires, including Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, have employed different strategies to build their brand emporiums. While some haven't tired of bringin...
(Video) Microsoft’s Futuristic ‘Project Silica’ Stores Data on Glass Plates for 10,000 Years
[Tech]
2023/11/07 09:07
3,500 films or 1.75 million songs can be stored on a single, small glass disk. Microsoft is currently developing the data storage of the future. Much more durable and uncomplicated than any hard disk.Microsoft Research, the R&D arm of the Redmond software giant, is testing the storage of huge amounts of data on glass plates in a futuristic initiative dubbed “Project Silica.” If successful...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Why AI-Enabled Customer Service is Key to Scaling Telco Personalization
[Business]
2023/11/07 09:06
Telcos increasingly rely on customized commercial marketing. But integrating those efforts with service-related outreach into a comprehensive next-best-experience engine is critical for growth.Agrowing number of telcos are harnessing commercial next-best-action engines that use real-time, data-based insights for objectives such as boosting cross-selling and upselling, reducing churn, improving...
Plantiga Technologies’ AI-Powered Footwear Sensor Pod Aims to Reduce Injury Risks
[Product]
2023/11/07 09:05
Plantiga Technologies, a Vancouver-based movement analytics company, wants to help people improve rehabilitation and reduce injury risks through an artificial intelligence-powered monitoring sensor pod that can be embedded into shoes, orthotics or insoles to analyze users’ movement patterns. Plantiga is participating in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, and while it’s been aroun...
The World’s Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year
[Investing]
2023/11/07 09:04
The hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP, according to new analysis from the United Nations.The United Nations has published a major new tally of the impact the world’s food system has on our health and the planet. According to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the total hidden costs of the world’s foo...
Sushi-Themed Suitcases Bring Joy to One of The Most Stressful Aspects of Traveling
[Design]
2023/11/07 09:03
After being stuck indoors for so long because of COVID, people have started traveling again en masse and with such intensity that the term “revenge travel” was coined. Whether it’s just across the country or to another one, people have started to remember the feeling of freedom that traveling produces. At the same time, however, it also reminds them of some of the stress involved, particular...
(Patent) Apple Continues to Refine One of Their Smart Ring Patents
[Tech]
2023/11/06 09:10
Apple has designed Vision Pro to use simple hand gestures to control elements of visionOS. This is accomplished by using a series of sophisticated cameras to track a user's eyes and hands. Yet for future smartglasses, televisions, Macs, Apple Watch and other wearables like AirPods, such cameras are not available to control such devices as noted in patent figure #16 below. For these devices, App...
BCG - Real Estate in Crisis
[Investing]
2023/11/06 09:09
The German real estate industry’s ongoing market uncertainty driven by higher interest rates, recession fears, and inflation will likely continue to weigh on property values and financing costs, according to Boston Consulting Group’s latest analysis. Transaction volumes are declining and it has become more difficult to refinance or redeem existing financing, with regularly maturing liabilitie...
