TREND REPORTS
(PDF) Oxford Scientists Have an AI That Can Read Your Lips - LipNet
[Tech]
2016/11/10 10:50
A team of scientists at Oxford University has created a new artificial intelligence system that they call LipNet.They claim that this AI can lip-read better than humans, which is interesting to say the least. LipNet is capable of doing that by watching a video of a person speaking and then it matches the text to the movement of their mouth. The researchers claim that LipNet has a 93 percent acc...
(PDF) Deloitte - 2017 Commercial Real Estate Industry Outlook
[Business]
2016/11/10 10:50
Deploy technology innovatively and effectively to compete in the rapidly changing Commercial Real Estate (CRE) ecosystem. To do this, companies should include five integral themes in their CRE business strategy. CRE owners may believe that smart cities are unlikely to impact the existing built environment, or that the timing is too far out to consider seriously. However, some evolving trends ar...
(Video) Volcom's Beautiful New Swimsuits are Made from Recycled Fishing Nets
[Product]
2016/11/10 10:50
The sporty fashion retailer has made an impressive effort to repurpose ocean waste into swimwear that people will want to buy.Volcom has launched a new line of swimwear made from recycled fishing nets. It is a fascinating and admirable attempt to rescue some of the waste floating in our oceans and put it to good use. “Caught up in a good thing” is the catchy tagline that accompanies the launc...
(Infographic) Millennial Must-Haves
[Consumer]
2016/11/10 10:50
When you go for a jog, you need a place to keep your phone and keys. When you get on a plane, you need a way to keep all your stuff organized. This infographic from Self Storage Finders outlines numerous storage solutions preferred by Millennials.Red-eye jetsetters, metropolitan commuters, and all-around multitasking millennials need the perfect place to stash their stuff on-the-go. This infogr...
How the Agency Grind Led This Art Director to Dream Up Gourmet Marijuana Edibles
[Business]
2016/11/10 10:49
Inside the culinary passion project Sous Weed.During the third season of Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss' Peggy Olson surprises herself and her colleagues when she declares, "I'm Peggy Olson and I want to smoke some marijuana." She's working on a Saturday and she's creatively blocked, so why not try something new? It's a delightful moment and one that made Peggy into, as Moss has noted, a stoner icon.O...
(Video) Young Aussie Inventor Builds a Better Band-Aid Dispenser
[Business]
2016/11/10 10:49
Bridgette Veneris, a 10-year-old Australian girl diagnosed with leukaemia, has invented Faster-Aid, a new dispenser for Band-Aid style adhesive bandages.After being diagnosed with leukaemia 18 months ago, a 10-year-old girl from Australia was inspired to invent a new device for dispensing Band-Aids. Dubbed the Faster-Aid, Bridgette Veneris' design works like a roll of sticky tape that's reseala...
Electric Smart Trucks Charging Toward Market - Charge
[Product]
2016/11/10 10:49
Charge hopes to change the way trucks are built and powered.With electric cars gradually overcoming range and pricing obstacles to become more competitive with liquid fuel contemporaries, electric vehicle technology is branching out, little by little. Tesla has plans to introduce trucks and buses next year, and Daimler announced Fuso E-Cell truck trials earlier this year. Now a lesser known pla...
(Infographic) There’s a New Ranking of The Healthiest Countries
[Investing]
2016/11/10 10:49
Iceland tops a new ranking of the world’s healthiest countries, in a vast new study. Published in The Lancet, the study assesses 33 health-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators in 188 countries across 25 years.One year into the SDGs, the results present a global picture of the progress made on the Millennium Development Goals, and the work still needed to achieve the Global Goa...
(PDF) BCG - Fintech in Capital Markets : A Land of Opportunity
[Investing]
2016/11/09 11:26
The financial technology (fintech) phenomenon first started to evolve in the capital markets (CM) industry more than 40 years ago. Today, accelerated both by the electronification of trading in the 1990s and the subsequent thrust of the entire financial services industry toward digitization, fintechs—which we define as firms that use innovative technology at scale to either enable or compete w...
