TREND REPORTS
(Video) App Creates Individually Curated Experience for Any Museum
[Business]
2015/12/21 11:45
Muzeums is a mobile app that offers curated museum guides for each visitor, based on their profile, interests and learning style.Museums can be overwhelming: the sheer volume of artifacts and artworks mean that unseasoned visitors only ever see a small portion of displays. Audio guides can provide suggestions, but since every visitor’s interests are different, people often miss entire areas th...
Asia-Pacific Is Home to Majority of World Retail Ecommerce Market
[Consumer]
2015/12/21 11:45
Rising middle classes in China, India and Indonesia are fueling rapid growth. Retail ecommerce sales in Asia-Pacific will hit $877.61 billion in 2015, up 35.7% from 2014. For the first time, the region will not only have the largest digital retail market in the world, but its share of global digital retail spend will also reach 52.5%—the first time it holds an outright majority of the world ma...
Solar Power from Hydrogen Filled Balloons Could Gather Cloudless Solar Power
[Tech]
2015/12/21 11:44
Electro-chemist Jean-François Guillemoles is developing solar energy from balloons that will float above the clouds for uninterrupted energy production during the day.The main problem with photovoltaic energy is that sunlight can be obscured by clouds, which makes electrical production intermittent and uncertain. But above the cloud cover, the sun shines all day, every day. Anywhere above the...
Adorn 3D Makeup Printing Pen Promises to Exactly Match Your Skin Tone
[Product]
2015/12/21 11:44
I’m intrigued by the new portable 3D makeup printer being released by UK-based Adorn. The scanner-printer combo promises to produce a foundation that perfectly matches your skin tone, no matter the shade.Last year, we covered the Mink Makeup Printer, which allows you to print your own eyeshadow, lipstick, and even nail polish. The Adorn printer is specifically for foundation, and comes in the...
(Infographic) How Voters Are Consuming Political News on Mobile Devices
[Consumer]
2015/12/21 11:29
Voters increasingly are turning to social media to stay informed about the 2016 presidential race.According to new data from programmatic advertising company RadiumOne, social channels are the second most popular way for voters to keep up with political news. In fact, one in three voters follows at least one candidate on social media.The survey of 1,600 people ages 18 to 64 found that Facebook...
Rinspeed Turns BMW's i8 Into the Self-Driving, Drone-Docking Σtos Concept
[Design]
2015/12/20 11:10
When it comes to designing concept cars, Rinspeed doesn't just think outside the box; it crushes the box down, rips it to shreds and uses the shreds to light the bonfire it stares into as it daydreams about its next idea. Next year, it's abandoning its longstanding convention of debuting a creative concept at the Geneva Motor Show, instead using the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show. The Etos conc...
Monetization Will Be Digital Media’s Biggest Challenge in 2016
[Business]
2015/12/20 11:09
When it comes to discussing the future of digital media, there are a few voices that the industry looks to (with good reason!) like Ken Doctor, Mathew Ingram, Lucia Moses, and others.But what do the people working “in the trenches” every day think? We wanted to get the pulse on the most important trends that the digital media industry encountered in 2015, and check to see what is expected in...
(Video) The First Selfie Stick Case for iPhone - STIKBOX
[Product]
2015/12/20 11:08
Can You Really Hate a Selfie Stick That Cleverly Transforms Into a Smartphone Case ?It’s easy to hate selfie sticks; they’re the seedy underbelly of the camera-equipped smartphones we carry around. But it’s really hard to hate on the brilliantly-engineered Stikbox that hides a telescoping 28-inch long selfie stick on the back of your mobile device.Like their more respectable cousin the tripo...
(Infographic) IDC - Mobile Internet Users to Top 2 Billion Worldwide in 2016
[Consumer]
2015/12/20 11:07
The International Data Corporation (IDC ) estimates that 3.2 billion people, or 44% of the world's population, will have access to the Internet in 2016. Of this number, more than 2 billion will be using mobile devices to do so. But what are the world's Internet users doing online? A new IDC infographic, How the World Uses the Internet , looks at the global Internet population and some of its on...
