TREND REPORTS
(Video) Panasonic Uses Human Touch to Transfer Data
[Tech]
2016/10/09 11:03
The LEDs under one staff member's skirt change to match the color of a bracelet worn by another when they shake hands.In an age when digital information can fly around the connected networks of the world in the blink of an eye, it may seem a little old timey to consider delivering messages by hand. But that's precisely what Panasonic is doing at CEATEC this week. The company is demonstrating a...
(Infographic) Food As Medicine : Americans Turns to Diet to Manage Ailments
[Consumer]
2016/10/06 10:34
Transparency. Rising health care costs. Technology access. While these factors are driving consumers’ growing focus on personal health and wellness, the rapidly aging U.S. population is another macro trend that retailers and manufacturers can’t afford to ignore. As of 2015, there were 48 million adults over age 65—accounting for 15% of the total U.S. population. According to the U.S. Census...
Clearpath Robotics Raises $30M to Become a Tesla for The Factory Floor
[Investing]
2016/10/06 10:33
Ontario tech firm Clearpath Robotics has raised $30 million in a Series B round of venture funding to scale up production of its self-driving vehicles.They’re not exactly Teslas or Google self-driving cars. Intsead, Clearpath makes vehicles that autonomously move boxes and pallets around factories, warehouses and distribution centers.Clearpath CEO and co-founder Matt Rendall tells TechCrunch,...
(PDF) BCG - Tapping into the Transformative Power of Service 4.0
[Business]
2016/10/06 10:33
Digital technology is revolutionizing the provision of services. Consider the following scenario: A Berlin resident we’ll call Paul has recently moved to a new apartment in the city. To initiate phone and internet service, he plugs his router into a wall outlet. Five minutes later, he receives a call from his service provider. An agent we’ll call Anna asks Paul to confirm that he has moved. S...
Solving Climate Change With Beer From Patagonia’s Food Startup
[Product]
2016/10/06 10:33
Executives at the outdoor apparel company are sick and tired of Big Food's greenwashing.Yvon Chouinard, the short, bluff, fatalistic founder of Patagonia, the company renowned for its pricey parkas, fuzzy fleeces, and exhortations to buy fewer of them, sits in a cafeteria-style Chinese restaurant in Jackson, Wyo. He scratches a clam from its shell, forks it into his mouth, chews, checks the tim...
Tracing The Byzantine Maze of The Companies That have Come to Control America’s Internet
[Business]
2016/10/06 10:32
America’s internet landscapes are rich, pervasive, and very hard to see. The miles of fiber-optic cable that connect the country to the world are mostly visible in fragments—signs for buried cable along the side of a road, telephone poles running between houses forming serpentine labyrinths beneath city manhole covers. These glimpses of networks tend to feature the names of at least a few dif...
Ollie Raises $4.4M to Become The Sprig of Dog Food
[Investing]
2016/10/06 10:32
Chicken, peas, beef, sweet potatoes and blueberries, the stuff of $40 meals in places like Hayes Valley and Greenwich Village — and starting today, also the stuff of dog food.Ollie, a new startup founded by Alex Douzet, Gabby Slome and Randy Jimenez, is aimed squarely at disrupting the premium pet food space by offering something like a Sprig or Maple for dogs. With a new $4.4 million round co...
Fujitsu Develops High-Speed Technology to Process Deep Learning
[Tech]
2016/10/06 10:32
The Nvidia Titan X is one of the latest examples of GPU chips used in deep learning.Artificial intelligence driven by deep learning often runs on many computer chips working together in parallel. But the deep-learning algorithms, called neural networks, can run only so fast in this parallel computing setup because of the limited speed with which data flows between the different chips. The Japan...
Lessons In Space-Saving Design From 4 Tiny Japanese Hostels
[Design]
2016/10/06 10:32
Once known for its futuristic "capsule" hotels, Japan has expanded its offerings without expanding the space. Since 1979, when renowned Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa opened the first capsule hotel in Osaka, Japan, the country has been a pioneer in designing hotels that expertly pack large numbers of travelers into teeny, tiny spaces. The greatest appeal of the small, self-contained sleeping...
