TREND REPORTS
(PDF) Outlook on Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise 2016
[Business]
2016/08/10 11:05
Artificial Intelligence Rapidly Adopted By Enterprises, Survey Says. 62% of enterprises will use AI technologies by 2018.Artificial intelligence has replaced big data this year as the most talked about new set of technologies. As with big data five years ago—behind the hype, the confusion generated by an ill-defined term, and the record funding by VC—we are starting to see emerging investment...
(Video) Soylent’s New Creation Is Coffee and Breakfast in a Bottle - Coffiest
[Product]
2016/08/10 11:05
Coffiest is Soylent’s newest creation, the latest in its line of meal-in-a-bottle products. Like regular Soylent, it’s meant to give you a broad nutritional base, basically taking all those parts of the “complete breakfast” you’d see in a 1990s cereal commercial and cramming them into Soylent’s standard 400 kcal bottle.A bottle of Coffiest also has 150mg of caffeine, which isn’t actually...
(PDF) Deloitte : 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index
[Business]
2016/08/10 11:04
The US innovation ecosystem has evolved significantly over the last century, transitioning from business monopolies dominating R&D early last century, assertive government sponsorship mid-century, to the current environment, within a globally connected world, in which small and big businesses collaborate with universities, venture capitalists, and research institutions to drive the innovati...
Forget Pokémon Go, Marketers - The Larger World of AR Is Here
[Business]
2016/08/10 11:04
5 Ways Marketers Can Respond to Augmented Reality.Regardless of whether Pokémon Go becomes the next Pinterest or is just the Pong of our generation, marketers need to get ready. The game has become a wild hit, with more than 20 million people in the U.S. playing it daily, at twice the usage of Facebook. And it signals five new ways to advertise in a virtual world.First, let's define the new me...
(M&A) The Disruptor Disrupted : Why Monster Had to Sell Itself for $429M
[Investing]
2016/08/10 11:04
During the original dot-com bubble, Monster Worldwide was omnipresent, with Super Bowl ads and a sky-high stock market valuation. That it survived so long, when so many of its bubble brethren went kaput, is something of an achievement.But the announcement today of the sale of the company to human resource giant Randstad for $429 million comes as no surprise. Indeed, The Boston Globe had reporte...
(Video) Patagonia Waves Goodbye to Neoprene with Natural Rubber Wetsuits
[Product]
2016/08/10 11:03
Patagonia's new wetsuits use Yulex to cut down on the emissions involved in production.Neoprene is good at keeping surfers warm in the water, but producing it is a dirty business. Not only is the material non-renewable, but it's derived from petroleum or limestone, which means it's a product of mining or drilling. In an attempt to make your next session in the green room a bit greener, Patagoni...
Virtual Reality Classrooms Another Way Chinese Kids Gain an Edge
[Business]
2016/08/10 11:03
Genders of virtual teachers can change to suit cultural norms of the classroom.[A student from Fuzhou city's Qiantang Primary school tries out NetDragon's 101 VR Immersion Classroom headset.]Deep within a building shaped like the Starship Enterprise, a little-known Chinese company is working on the future of education. Vast banks of servers record children at work and play, tracking touchscreen...
It’s a Date - Datelight
[Design]
2016/08/10 11:03
Datelight was created by designer, Cody Moore. He first created the light for his sisters as Christmas gifts, but decided he wanted it to be more than just any old lamp. Datelight is more than just a lamp, it works in conjunction with the Datelight app on your mobile device. Just enter in dates that are important to you, which then syncs up with the lamp.We all have our ways of remembering impo...
(PDF) PwC : The Rise of China’s Silicon Dragon
[Business]
2016/08/09 11:05
China’s internet players are shifting the centre of gravity in the global digital economy and forcing multinationals to rethink fundamental assumptions about the sources of innovation-led growth.Where Chinese businesses were once derided as copycat innovators, the leading digital players have now developed into world-class trendsetters at the intersection of eCommerce, mobile and social techno...
