TREND REPORTS
The Age of Apps Is Over--and Cards Are Taking Their Place
[Design]
2016/06/02 10:42
On your smartphone, the world is a few taps away. But many people today are fed up with downloading, scrolling, and pinching. Cards are the antidote.[An accessories company uses a card-based wrap instead of an app to connect with customers on mobile.] People of a certain age may remember Hypercard, a card-based storytelling interface that ran on early Apple computers. The idea of representing d...
(Infographic) 72 Startups Transforming Bricks and Mortar Retail
[Investing]
2016/06/01 11:25
Companies are using technologies like wearables, augmented reality, and beacons to bridge the gap between digital and physical shopping.[click to enlarge]Transforming bricks-and-mortar shopping is a high-stakes endeavor for retailers given Americans still do over 90% of our shopping in physical stores. In fact, one of the latest trends in retail is the launch of physical stores by online e-comm...
(Video) How Good Is This Vacuum? You Can Climb a Skyscraper With Its Suction
[Business]
2016/06/01 11:25
We'd like to preface this story by saying "Don't try this at home," but we already know somebody—probably in Ukraine—is going to seize the opportunity anyway. Having warned you, we hereby assuage our consciences. Companies like GoPro and Samsung have made a mark on YouTube culture by using powerful demonstrations—from smart surfboards to sledding toddlers—to punt their fare. Now, LG's jumpi...
Gaming Gone Global : Keeping Tabs on Worldwide Trends
[Consumer]
2016/06/01 11:25
It’s now 2016, and gaming has firmly moved out of the basement and into the living room–and beyond. In fact, more than half of the population in the world’s industrialized countries now identifies as gamers, which has brought a tidal wave of change across the way many of us spend our free time.Today, gaming is as much an aspect of modern culture as anything else. In fact, as detailed in Niel...
Plane And Simple - Airlines Make Parents Lives Easier
[Business]
2016/06/01 11:25
Airlines are beginning to acknowledge these situations as sources of stress for modern moms and dads, and are working to make flying better for them and their whole families. LUFTHANSA'S BEDTIME STORIESParents who have to travel for work are often upset that they cannot be home to read to their kids at night. Last fall, to help moms and dads who face this circumstance, Lufthansa installed Bedti...
MIT - New Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
[Tech]
2016/06/01 11:25
Pump-free design for flow battery could offer advantages in cost and simplicity.A new approach to the design of a liquid battery, using a passive, gravity-fed arrangement similar to an old-fashioned hourglass, could offer great advantages due to the system’s low cost and the simplicity of its design and operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new...
(Video) Cowa Robot is a Suitcase That Follows You Like a Puppy
[Product]
2016/06/01 11:24
The suitcase robot will soon be available on Kickstarter next month and the project plans to ship to backers by September.it doesn't have multiple tiny feet or lots of big square teeth, nor is it made out of sapient pearwood, but Shanghai-based Cowa's walking suitcase has already got lazy me falling in love with it. And you would too, once you realised you would almost never have to lift a fing...
Moto Reimagined
[Design]
2016/06/01 11:24
This Motorola concept smartphone really explores a new aesthetic that makes a phone functionally superior while giving it some body (because we end up putting thick protective cases on our thin phones anyway… stupid humans). The screen is pretty much edge to edge, but is surrounded by a thick metal bezel that almost makes it look like the phone is wearing a protective armor.I love the fact tha...
Monthly Trend Report - June. 2016 Edition
[Trendbird]
2016/06/01 10:26
MONTHLY TREND REPORT - June. 2016 Edition Released !TRENDBIRD (What's the Next Big Thing ?) is a Global Trend Research & Consulting Service that Instantly Delivers Industry Expert Information on Emerging Trends & Future Business Opportunities from Around the World, Ahead of The Curve." * 글로벌 리딩 기업의 C-Level 경영진 및 경영전략, 기술연구소, 신사업, 마케팅, 디자인 등 핵심 전략부서에...
