AR/VR Dealmakers invested over $800 million dollars in Q2 2017, after a quieter first quarter. This rounded out over $2 billion invested across 27 AR/VR sectors in the last 12 months. [click to enlarge]While investment hasn’t hit the record peak of Q1 2016 (when $1.2 billion was invested in the quarter and $2.4 billion in the previous 12 months), the second quarter of this year was an investme...

Over the years, Google has established itself as the first stop for almost everyone trying to find something online. When it comes to product searches however, Amazon has emerged as a powerful rival and is currently beating Google (and other search engines for that matter) in the race to becoming the first stop for online shoppers.According to a UPS survey among more than 5,000 U.S. online shop...

A visual representation of how Continental wants to make speakerless interiors. If luxury car manufacturers are to be believed, more speaker hardware is the best way to deliver a quality in-car audio experience. But a concept from Continental suggests ditching speakers altogether, and instead creates sound by vibrating some parts of the car's interior trim.Continental likens the Ac2ated Sound c...

MiLi Skin Moisture Meter gives people an accurate and in-the-moment reading of their skin's moisture.Touted as a ‘Breathalyzer for your skin’, the latest device in beauty-tech hails from skin-care brand H2O+, whose MiLi Skin Moisture Meter promises to accurately track and detect your skin’s hydration levels as a means of helping you find a custom, best-fit moisturizer. While traditional inno...

Improvements in efficiency and personalization are expected.More marketers are showing interest in artificial intelligence (AI), but it might be some time before it has a real impact on their business.According to an April 2017 survey of marketing leaders worldwide from CRM technology provider Salesforce, respondents expect to see improvements in efficiency and advancements in personalization o...

Is it possible that the automobile can go from being a symbol of stature/class to being just a means of conveyance? A lot of companies and designers are predicting that one day cars will be shared by people, and co-owned, instead of belonging to just one person or family.If that’s true, cars will have to be designed differently, with an aesthetic that balances between looking utilitarian as we...

Ogilvy Bangkok won three silver Lions for the campaign.Lego makes some of the most delightful advertising around, and this series of print ads from Ogilvy Bangkok are just about perfect, from concept to execution.The work, which won three silver Lions (in Print & Publishing and Outdoor) and a bronze (in Design) at the Cannes festival last month, shows kids literally envisioning their future...

With the Internet of Things (IoT) poised to generate billions of dollars in economic value over the next ten years, companies have flocked to the IoT platform market, vying to become the go-to vendor. Platforms account for just €15 billion of the €250 billion that will be spent on IoT in 2020. [click to enlarge]Nevertheless, they have a pivotal strategic role to play in a much higher-stakes c...

Corning's "Connected Concept Car" has a dashboard that's made entirely of glass. This might seem like a perfectly horrible and dangerous idea -- except that it actually isn't horrible, and Corning assures me it's perfectly safe.[Corning Gorilla Glass is used on the dashboard and in the steering wheel of this concept car.]Corning brought the drivable concept car to New York City to show it off t...