TREND REPORTS
Uniqlo Takes Over Chicago Transit
[Business]
2015/11/05 11:02
The global fashion giant targets commuters by pioneering an immersive experience to spotlight its first store opening in Chitown.Uniqlo has pipped its competitors to the post by being the first brand given permission to fully take over a Chicago Transit train, giving passengers a journey of a lifetime.To market its first ever Midwest store in Chicago, Uniqlo partnered with experiential firm Inv...
The Price of Bitcoin Jumped Over 20% Today
[Investing]
2015/11/05 11:02
Bitcoin has been on an absolute tear since mid-October, and gained more than 20% today (Nov. 4) alone. At one point, it hit a yearly high of more than $491.Here’s the price of bitcoin throughout the day (Nov. 4)(Quartz (data from Coindesk))In August, bitcoin fell to a low for 2015 amid turmoil in the Chinese stock markets. It’s been a completely different story since the fall.It’s not entire...
Short Story Vending Machines in Public Places - Short Edition
[Business]
2015/11/05 11:02
French publishing company Short Edition prints out receipt-like short stories to encourage commuters to kill time by reading.We recently saw commuters in Romania given free tickets for reading instead of using their smartphones. Residents of the French town of Grenoble are also being encouraged to make time for reading in their daily schedules.Short Edition, a French publishing company, has ins...
The PuzzlePhone - Design To Last
[Design]
2015/11/05 11:01
The PuzzlePhone is a modular smartphone designed for longevity. It’s a phone that is repairable, upgradable, and tailored to meet your style and needs in a sustainable and responsible way. It’s a paradigm shift from “take, make, and waste” to “reduce, reuse, and recycle.”PuzzlePhone is built from modules. It has three easily replaceable and customizable modules: “the Brain” (electronics...
DRAS’tic Design - Drasphone
[Design]
2015/11/04 10:51
The Drasphone tries to combine two undeniably massive trends in cellular phone design. The clamshell trend of the 90s, and the present touchscreen display trend. Pioneering flexible display technology, this conceptual smartphone bends at not one, not two, but at three points! This allows you to make the Drasphone compact in two ways. Do a half fold, and you have a Squarish MiniDras, or a comple...
Apple Watch Customers Plan to Buy More Bands, Third-Party Interest increasing
[Consumer]
2015/11/04 10:51
The latest survey taken focuses primarily on Apple Watch bands by asking volunteer participants which band came with their Apple Watch at purchase, if they’ve already bought additional bands or plan to buy more, and even a question about the new Apple TV…The most popular band acquired during initial Apple Watch purchase for Wristly’s participants is rather unsurprising: Sport. The $49 band c...
(Video) Bentley Inspirator - a Luxury Commissioning Experience
[Business]
2015/11/04 10:51
Bentley's New App Uses Facial Recognition to Point You to the Ideal SUV. In what it's billing as a "luxury commissioning experience," Bentley has launched its Inspirator app with a compelling promise: To use your emotions to recommend you the perfect Bentayga SUV.VML London powered the app, available on iPad and iPhone, with emotion metric algorithms and data from 3.4 million faces across 75 co...
(M&A) Why Activision is Paying $5.9 Billion for Candy Crush Maker King
[Investing]
2015/11/04 10:51
Activision Blizzard announced it was buying King, the maker of Candy Crush, for $5.9 billion in cash, a 20% premium over King's share price at close yesterday.Why? As this chart from Statista shows, 79% of Activision's revenue today comes from selling PC, online, and console games. King, on the other hand, makes 80% of its revenue from mobile games. The combined company will be much more divers...
Who is Buying Apple Products ? Old Men.
[Consumer]
2015/11/04 10:51
Men aged 65 and older spent more on Apple devices than any other demographic group in the United States last year, according to Slice Intelligence, which tracks online shopping data.That group, though not even one-quarter of all Apple customers, spent $976 online on average per person on iGadgets.They outspent the young female demographic by more than $400. (Women 25 to 34 spent the least out o...
