TREND REPORTS
Implantable LCD Eye Lenses May Make Glasses Obsolete
[Tech]
2015/10/20 15:16
University of Leeds research student Devesh Mistry has developed a unique, auto-focusing liquid crystal lens that may help cure age-related long-sightedness.The potential for replacing aging or damaged eye lenses with artificial lenses that do more than just restore eyesight has long been recognized. With everything from telescopic capabilities to those with built-in heads-up displays, electron...
Why South Korea's Men are Buying Tons of Cosmetics
[Consumer]
2015/10/20 15:16
Men's grooming industry thrives in South Korea. Ladies, step aside. In South Korea, cosmetics companies are now targeting men.It's a trend that clashes with Western ideas about masculinity and gender, but Korean men are spending a ton of money on cosmetics products in order to improve their skin and appearance.South Korean men are the world's top per-capita consumers of skincare products, with...
(Video) House of Moving Walls
[Design]
2015/10/20 15:16
This small apartment, designed by Spanish architect studio PKMN architectures, is all about space and movement. Here the occupants can create their own ideal interior, as open or private as they like, just by moving the walls and partitions. Clever mechanics and unified color scheme make these transitions look and feel seamless, as if the space takes different shapes on its own, morphing along...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Digital inside : Get Wired for The Ultimate Luxury Experience
[Business]
2015/10/19 11:10
Is luxury e-commerce nearing its tipping point? We think so, and online sales of luxury goods could triple to €70 billion by 2025.How might luxury e-commerce develop over the next five to ten years? As part of our annual Altagamma-McKinsey Digital Luxury Experience Observatory1 we analyzed the online-sales trajectories of more than 50 luxury brands over the past decade. What we found is that t...
(PDF) Stanford : Real-time Expression Transfer for Facial Reenactment
[Tech]
2015/10/19 11:09
There’s now a computer program that lets you control someone else’s face.In the prophetic 1997 film “Face/Off,” John Travolta figures that the only way to avoid going back to prison was to surgically replace his face with that of Nicolas Cage’s. Although medical science has not really gotten to the point where that isn’t still completely laughable, a new technology out of Stanford Univers...
(Video) Boeing has made a metal structure light enough to sit on top of a dandelion
[Tech]
2015/10/19 11:06
If there were a metal as light as a feather, would you fly in a plane made out of it? Airplane manufacturer Boeing announced last week that it’s working on a new type of metal structure, called a microlattice, so light that it can be displaced with a breath of air.Responding to a curious YouTube commenter on its video of the material, Boeing said that the microlattice is made with a nickel-pho...
(Video) EarLens Contact Laser-based Hearing Device Receives FDA Approval
[Tech]
2015/10/19 11:06
EarLens Corporation of Menlo Park, California has received FDA marketing for its innovative EarLens Contact Hearing Device. The EarLens is different from traditional hearing aids in that it uses a laser diode and direct vibration of the eardrum to amplify sound, whereas other hearing aids simply amplify any incoming sounds. The device is indicated for use by adults with mild to severe sensorine...
Birchbox Extends Its Retail Reach with In-House Cosmetic Brand
[Business]
2015/10/19 11:06
The subscription-based service partners with Youtube vlogger Tati Westbrook to debut their first line of cosmetics.Birchbox has announced their first proprietary line of cosmetics to be launched under the name LOC, short for Love of Color. The subscription-based brand has made a name for itself by partnering with various beauty and wellness brands to curate monthly boxes of cosmetics and skinca...
Cultural Riches
[Tech]
2015/10/19 11:05
Researchers devise new techniques to facilitate growing bacteria collected from the environment.New devices that physically separate bacterial cells—giving slower-growing species a fighting chance—but still allow the cells to communicate could be key to helping researchers culture previously ungrowable strains. iCHIP: A multiwell diffusion chamber separates individual bacterial cells in the w...
