TREND REPORTS
Is the Tech Bubble Popping ? Ping Pong Offers an Answer
[Investing]
2016/05/08 11:06
Sales of tables rise and fall with the startups that love them. Ping-pong playing gets intense at Pivotal’s San Francisco office, so the software company installed netting to catch errant balls.Twitter’s gloomy quarterly report last week unsettled investors. They might have anticipated trouble more than a year ago had they noticed one key indicator.Until late 2014, Twitter was regularly order...
Designer Fund Launches with $20M to Invest in Startups with Taste
[Investing]
2016/05/08 11:05
For the past five years, Enrique Allen and Ben Blumenfeld have led a group of angel investors called the Designer Fund on a mission: fund tech startups that have a strong design focus and a meaningful impact.Until today, it was a loosely knit group with no formal structure, but now it’s become an investment firm with $20 million to put into early-stage startups.The fund will continue to make s...
Pre-Painted Toenail Art Stockings Hailed as New Street Fashion Trend
[Design]
2016/05/08 11:04
One of the things we enjoy doing at Japan Trends is not only observing actual news and trends, but also how trends are reported and generated by the media, both Japanese and international.What is the making of a “trend”? Well, it’s partly when everyone starts talking about something, creating buzz that by definition then turns the “something” into a self-generated trend.A few years ago the...
Hive Drone Skyscraper – Central Control Station for Drones
[Design]
2016/05/08 11:03
Drone technology has become rapidly popular nowadays, it is adopted by many large corporations for different kind of things, from fast delivery, aerial mapping, to filmmaking. Hive is a conceptual project about unique infrastructure to meet emerging demand for incorporating advanced Drone technology into daily life in New York City.These small flying robots might be an ordinary part of future e...
(Infographic) The World's 50 Richest Billionaires and Where They Live
[Investing]
2016/05/03 11:10
Here, The Money Project, a collaboration between Visual Capitalist and Texas Precious Metals, has visualised the world's wealthiest people — from Warren Buffet to Mark Zuckerberg. These are the richest billionaires in the world – entrepreneurs, inventors, thinkers, heirs and heiresses. They’re the people who’ve brought us Facebook, Microsoft, fashion and food. Or inherited vast empires.Name...
(Patent) Sony Patents a New Contact Lens Camera
[Tech]
2016/05/03 11:09
Sony recently patented a new kind of “contact lens camera” that gives us a glimpse into an intriguing (and for privacy reasons also scary) future! Yes this is a full working camera worn on an eyeball that has a lens unit, image sensor, microchip processor and storage unit on the contact lens! It also has a built-in wireless antenna to transmit pictures to any device (smartphone or laptop for...
IPO Window Slams Shut on 22 Tech Companies Seeking Just $1.5 Billion
[Investing]
2016/05/03 11:08
The first quarter of 2016 saw no technology IPOs on U.S. markets, according to a report released last week by research firm Dealogic. The last time this was happened was seven years ago, in the months following the collapse of Lehman Brothers as the Great Recession was getting underway.This time it’s different. During the first three months of the year, the U.S. stock markets were marked by ov...
Sneakers Sink Their Teeth Into New Footwear Designs Inspired By Food
[Product]
2016/05/03 11:07
Young people’s interest in fleeting products and experiences is contributing to a culture in which limited-edition items are approaching Birkin-level status symbols. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the footwear category, where sneaker fans line up for product launches the way their parents lined up for concert tickets. The latest limited-edition lines are tapping into something yo...
Matryoshka Headphones
[Design]
2016/05/03 11:06
What’s better than one audio device? A two-in-one! No?! A three-in-one!! I’ve officially hit crazy with the Level x3 Headphones. Just like the Matryoshka dolls, these babies are one big bag of surprises. Designed to be your everything-audio solution, the Level x3 is a pair of in-ear earphones, that fit into headphones. Audio synchronization allows your headphones to continue what you were lis...
