TREND REPORTS
Consumers Willing to Share Personal Data for Deals, Better Customer Service
[Consumer]
2017/04/23 10:06
Despite Privacy Concerns, Consumers Will Share Personal Data If It Saves Money or Resolves Customer Service Issues.Only 15 percent were interested in 'targeted ads,' and 31 percent were unwilling to share personal data for any reason.Consumer surveys have repeatedly shown the public’s ambivalence about digital privacy. When there’s a clear value exchange or concrete reason for information sha...
CLEAR Raises $15M to Expand Biometric Security
[Investing]
2017/04/23 10:05
CLEAR, the biometric security firm popular in U.S. airports and stadiums, has raised $15 million from T. Rowe Price to expand their footprint. The company, led by CEO Caryn Seidman-Becker, is already partially owned by Delta Airlines.“We are obsessed with our customers, and can’t wait to bring them more ways to use CLEAR. We lead the industry in secure biometric-powered customer experiences a...
NASA's 'Space Fabric' Links Fashion and Engineering
[Tech]
2017/04/23 10:04
The metallic "space fabric" that was created using 3-D printing techniques that allow different functionality to be integrated into each side of the material.NASA is getting into the textile business thanks to a team led by systems engineer Raul Polit Casillas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The team has unveiled prototype swatches of a new metallic "space fabric" crea...
(Video) Smart Plant Wall Purifies Indoor Air - Naava
[Product]
2017/04/23 10:03
Finland-based Naava has developed a remotely-monitored smart wall of plants that constantly purifies indoor air, providing spaces with a fresh, clean supply.Building on research done by NASA, Finnish company Naava has developed a proprietary operating system for remote management of a smart wall of plants. The wall provides a constant stream of clean air and requires little to no management fro...
(PDF) Mckinksey - How Shared Mobility will Change the Automotive Industry
[Business]
2017/04/20 10:10
While sharing cars likely means slower growth of vehicle sales, it also suggests strong new opportunities for automakers, suppliers, and many more mobility players.The increasing popularity of shared mobility will slow global vehicle sales but not reverse them. Although there likely will be fewer new vehicles on the road because of sharing, car sales in developing countries will outpace shared...
AI-Powered Diagnostic Device Takes Out Tricorder XPrize
[Tech]
2017/04/20 10:09
Launched in 2012, the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE tasked competing teams with developing a portable and versatile medical diagnostics machine that would give people "unprecedented access" to information about their health. The contest has now been run and won, with an AI-powered device awarded top honors and US$2.5 million for its trouble.This particular XPRIZE – a series of competitions aimed a...
(PDF) PwC - Semiconductor Industry : Strategies for Growth in the IoT Era
[Business]
2017/04/20 10:08
From the mainframe to the mini to the PC to the smartphone, our computing devices just keep getting smaller, faster, and cheaper. Each of these shifts depended on advances in semiconductor technology and the ongoing impact of Moore’s Law, as individual transistors gave way to the integrated circuit, and then the sophisticated system on a chip. And at every transitional stage, new companies eme...
Pet Adoption Photography Campaigns
[Design]
2017/04/20 10:07
World For All is a Mumbai-based animal welfare NGO, and the brand's recent campaign uses eye-catching photography to send a message about pet adoption. The NGO seeks to encourage families to adopt animals with its photography-based campaign that features optical illusions in order to get its message across. There are three different ads in the campaign, all of which feature couples who are embr...
GE's New Software Could 3D Print Organ Replicas On Demand
[Tech]
2017/04/20 10:06
GE Working on Automating 3D Printing of Organ Models.Erica Endicott was pregnant with her son, Kaden, when cardiologists at Phoenix Children’s Heart Center discovered that the left side of the boy’s heart was not growing properly. Kaden, who is healthy now, was treated by a team of doctors in Boston for the life-threatening condition. Following the procedure, they used data from an ultrasound...
