TREND REPORTS
Apple is Already Winning The Wireless Headphones Market with AirPods
[Business]
2017/01/12 10:53
Despite delays, Apple’s AirPods had a great holiday season according to a new report on wireless headphone online spending over the past several weeks.The report from Slice Intelligence–which collects its data from hundreds of millions of anonymized e-receipts–found that the $159 AirPods have accounted for more than a quarter of all online wireless headphones revenue since pre-orders for the...
The Next Big Thing in Smartphones? The Software
[Business]
2017/01/12 10:53
Handset shipment growth is expected to have increased only by 0.6% in 2016, intensifying competition among top players Apple, Samsung and Huawei. Apple’s iPhone 7 phone on display in New York. Apple, which unveiled the first iPhone a decade ago this week, is increasingly relying on its services business for growth.Advances in hardware have become incremental, and growth in handset sales has la...
Illumina Wants to Sequence Your Whole Genome for $100
[Tech]
2017/01/12 10:53
The first sequencing of the whole human genome in 2003 cost roughly $2.7 billion, but DNA sequencing giant Illumina has now unveiled a new machine that the company says is “expected one day” to order up your whole genome for less than $100.Illumina’s CEO Francis deSouza showed off the machine, called the NovaSeq, onstage at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in downtown San Francisco today,...
We May Have Less Than 5 Years to Change How We Learn, Earn and Care
[Consumer]
2017/01/12 10:53
A jobs revolution is underway. How do we prepare?. Over the course of the last year, at World Economic Forum and elsewhere, I have asked participants two questions. First I ask for a show of hands on whether they feel confident about their current skills taking them through to the end of their careers – about one in five raise their hands. Then I ask if they feel confident about advising their...
Taclim VR Shoes Let You Kick Virtual Butt
[Tech]
2017/01/12 10:52
One of the more interesting products I got to test at CES was a pair of VR sneakers from Japanese gadget-maker Cerevo. The Taclim VR system consists of a pair of sneakers and gloves that are designed to give you a more immersive virtual experience.The sneakers use haptic feedback to simulate different surfaces that you're walking over. The demo I tried attempted to simulate walking on sand, woo...
(Video) Barcode Scanning Startup Scandit Raises $7.5M from Atomico
[Investing]
2017/01/12 10:52
Mobile barcode scanning company Scandit has closed a $7.5 million Series A round from Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström’s investment firm, Atomico.Founded out of Switzerland in 2009 by a troop of PhD graduates emanating from MIT, ETH Zurich, and IBM Research, Scandit serves businesses with software that lets workers and consumers scan barcodes from within any mobile app, across smartphones, ta...
New Smart Bed Positions Itself to Silence Habitual Snorers - Sleep Number 360
[Product]
2017/01/12 10:52
A new bed uses biometric sensors to monitor sleep patterns, measuring things like heart rate, breathing and position and adjusting to keep sleepers comfortable.Sleeping patterns are strongly linked to health and wellbeing, but studies show that as many as 35% of people have some symptoms of insomnia. Looking at this from a purely economic perspective, in the US alone the impact on the economy i...
(PDF) Greenpeace - Clicking Clean : Who Is Winning The Race To Build a Green Internet ?
[Business]
2017/01/11 11:33
Greenpeace has described Apple as the most environmentally friendly tech company in the world for the third year running, thanks to its high use of renewable energy and the leadership role it takes in encouraging its supply chain to follow its own example.Apple retains its leadership spot for the third year in a row among platform operators. Both Apple and Google continue to lead the sector in...
(Video) MIT Researchers Design One of The Strongest, Lightest Materials Known
[Tech]
2017/01/11 11:33
Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known. Porous, 3-D forms of graphene developed at MIT can be 10 times as strong as steel but much lighter.A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material, a sponge-like configuration with a densit...
