TREND REPORTS
Which Working Benefits Do Millennials Value Most ?
[Consumer]
2015/11/17 11:00
What is your favourite workplace perk? Many people love working hard for a cash bonus while others prefer flexible hours or familial benefits. A survey conducted by PWC and recently republished in KPCB's 2015 Internet Trends Report reveals that millennials actually desire training and development more than other working benefits. 22 percent of global millennials placed it top of their wish list...
(Video) Primordial Goo Coating to Aid in Medical Procedures
[Tech]
2015/11/17 11:00
Using a soup of molecules that replicates the primordial goo found at the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, scientists have created a coating that may significantly improve the body's acceptance of medical implants.Prebiotic compounds that promote the growth of microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, can be traced back billions of years to their origins in the primordial go...
Tree-Inspired Single Pole Home - Primeval Symbiosis
[Design]
2015/11/17 10:59
Danish architecture firm Konrad Wójcik is the author of an architectural project, called Primeval Symbiosis, which re-thinks the sustainable and eco-friendly houses, outside the city, in the heart of the forest. Inspired by the tree-house concept, these suspended homes, thought to host two people, are topped by solar panels which generate energy and a heat pump located in the ground. The goal...
(Infographic) Millennials' Surprising Game Plan for Black Friday Shopping
[Consumer]
2015/11/17 10:59
Ninety-three percent of millennials plan on shopping on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, marketers and retailers are gearing up for the year's biggest shopping onslaught: Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Per usual, millennials are the most coveted demo. When product-discovery platform Influenster surveyed 6,000 millennials to get insights into their plans th...
(PDF) Bank of England Chief Economist on Robots Taking Your Job
[Business]
2015/11/16 11:23
In the future, Uber or Google will take you to work in an autonomously-driven car. Soylent (or something like it) will replace eating meals with other people. A gigantic robot arm will eliminate the workers in an Amazon warehouse.This is the extremist position, of course; Soylent tastes terrible.But Andy Haldane, chief economist of the Bank of England (the United Kingdom’s central bank), yeste...
SleepCogni Uses Light, Sound and Touch to Help You Get a Solid Night's Rest
[Product]
2015/11/16 11:22
The electrostatic speakers emit music and landscapes of differing tempo, timbre and pitch also intended to bring down the user's heart rate.A solid night's sleep isn't always achievable for everyone – the estimated 50 to 70 million American adults with sleep disorder will vouch for that. And research has suggested that our increasing tendency to stare into LED screens isn't helping our cause,...
(PDF) BCG - Bringing Digital Disruption to Building Materials
[Business]
2015/11/16 11:22
A building contractor we’ll call Bob meets with a client to discuss ideas for a bathroom renovation. Rather than visiting a distributor’s showroom, Bob uses his iPad to display a 3-D visualization of the client’s bathroom. Bob and the client experiment with options for the colors of tiles, fittings, and sanitary ceramics. Bob uses a smartphone app provided by the producer of these materials...
(M&A) Fossil Buys Fitness Tracker Maker Misfit to Grow its Wearable Family
[Investing]
2015/11/16 11:22
Fossil, the popular watch maker, has a new family member. For $260 million (about £170m, AU$364m), Misfit will join up under the Fossil Group, though it will keep making its own wearables."We will continue to develop activity trackers under the Misfit brand and Fossil Group will scale Misfit technology across Fossil, Skagen and a targeted portion of its portfolio of 16 brands in 2016," a Misfi...
(Video) World’s First Floating Wind Farm to be Built Off Scottish Coast - Hywind
[Tech]
2015/11/16 11:22
The Hywind Scotland pilot park will be the world's first wind farm with five wind turbines generating six megawatts each.In a deal between the Scottish government and Norwegian oil company Statoil, five wind turbines with a capacity of six megawatts each will be set on floating structures some 15 miles (25 km) off the northeast coast of Scotland near Peterhead. The Hywind pilot park, as it's na...
