TREND REPORTS
BCG - Self-Driving Vehicles, Car Sharing, and the Urban Mobility Revolution
[Business]
2017/04/12 10:39
25% of U.S. driving could be done by self-driving cars by 2030.New automotive technologies and business models are converging to spark a transformative revolution on our city streets.. It’s no longer a question of if but when self-driving vehicles (SDVs, also known as autonomous vehicles) will hit the road.Multiple parties are already at work developing autonomous-driving technologies, and the...
(M&A) Tech Exits in Q1 2017: IPOs and M&A Remain Strong
[Investing]
2017/04/12 10:38
The first quarter of 2017 was another good quarter for technology company exits. We saw a number of very high profile tech company initial public offerings (IPOs) come to market, which is extremely encouraging given the limited activity we saw in 2016.On the merger and acquisition (M&A) side of things, we saw an equally positive trend with the number of technology M&A transactions comin...
The Best-Selling Beers in The World
[Product]
2017/04/12 10:38
The most popular beer on the planet is one you may never have even heard of. That's because sales of it are almost exclusively limited to one country: China.Sales of the world's best-selling beer, Snow, have grown 573% over the past decade, according to Bloomberg. But despite its popularity in China, it's available only at specialty retailers in the US.This 4% lager is extremely cheap and sells...
Sony Sketches Out an Upgraded Digital Paper Tablet - The Digital Paper
[Product]
2017/04/12 10:38
Sony has unveiled an upgraded version of its office-focused Digital Paper tablet.Digital technology is increasingly taking the paper out of paperwork, but there's always something nice about handwriting notes. A few years ago, Sony tried to bridge the gap with its business-focused e-paper tablet, and now the company has updated the device with higher resolution, bigger memory, NFC and Bluetooth...
UAB Creates Triple-Threat Cancer-Fighting Polymer Capsules for Guided Drug Delivery
[Tech]
2017/04/12 10:37
Chemists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have designed triple-threat cancer-fighting polymer capsules that bring the promise of guided drug delivery closer to preclinical testing.These multilayer capsules show three traits that have been difficult to achieve in a single entity. They have good imaging contrast that allows detection with low-power ultrasound, they can stably and effici...
Earphones That Don’t Sit in Your Ears - Batband
[Design]
2017/04/12 10:37
Call me audio-obsessed, but I can’t stop admiring this pair of earphones (should I call them that? They don’t really rely on your ears) that go by the name Batband. Using a technology we’ve been a fan of for long, i.e., bone conduction, the earphones rest above the ear on the skull, relaying vibrations into your head directly through the bone. Sound travels faster, sounds clearer, and you ca...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Supply Chain 4.0 in Consumer Goods
[Business]
2017/04/11 10:38
In Supply Chain 4.0, supply-chain management applies Industry 4.0 innovations—the Internet of Things, advanced robotics, analytics, and big data—to jump-start performance, and customer satisfaction.Over the last 30 years, supply chain has undergone a tremendous change. What was once a purely operational logistics function that reported to sales or manufacturing and focused on ensuring supply...
(PDF) Temporary Tattoos Turn the Body Into a Touchscreen - SkinMarks
[Tech]
2017/04/11 10:38
Researchers from Germany’s Saarland University Department of Computer Science have developed stretchy temporary tattoos to turn the body into a connected interface.Building on the technology of previous epidermal electronics, SkinMarks prints multiple layers of thin-film sensors on temporary tattoo paper. Developed by researchers from Germany’s Saarland University Department of Computer Scien...
76% of U.S. Teens Surveyed Using iPhones, 81% Plan to Purchase
[Consumer]
2017/04/11 10:37
The iPhone continues to be the most popular smartphone among teens, according to data gathered by investment firm Piper Jaffray in its most recent semiannual U.S. teen survey.76 percent of teens surveyed own an iPhone, up from 69 percent in the spring of 2016, and the highest ownership level seen in the teen survey. A record 81 percent of teens surveyed said they expect their next phone to be a...
