TREND REPORTS
(Video) Google and Levi’s are Teaming Up to Create Interactive Clothing
[Tech]
2015/06/01 11:25
Google is partnering with Levi's to create smart pants that can control your phone.What if you never had to pull out your phone to dismiss an incoming call? That's the type of future Google and Levi's are envisioning.The two companies are partnering to create a pair of "smart" jeans that you can use to perform certain actions on your phone, Google announced during its annual I/O developer confe...
Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make
[Investing]
2015/06/01 11:25
Medscape, a subsidiary of the medical information website WebMD, has released its 2014 Physician Compensation Report. The data in the report come from more than 24,000 doctors in 25 specialties, who responded to Medscape's annual survey with information on their compensation for 2013.The infographic below shows the average earnings for each surveyed specialty. Orthopedists were the highest earn...
(Video) MIT's Robotic Cheetah can Now Leap Over Obstacles
[Tech]
2015/06/01 11:25
MIT has trained its robot cheetah to identify and leap over objects in its path. The last time we heard from the researchers working on MIT's robotic cheetah project, they had untethered their machine to let it bound freely across the campus lawns. Wireless and with a new spring in its step, the robot hit speeds of 10 mph (16 km/h) and could jump 13 in (33 cm) into the air. The quadrupedal robo...
(M&A) The 10 Most Active Acquirers in Payments Tech
[Investing]
2015/06/01 11:25
Google, Samsung, PayPal and Visa have pursued payments tech M&A in 2015. Here's who's been most acquisitive in payments tech.Payments tech M&A is heating up big time in 2015.With Apple launching Apple Pay last fall, Google working on its own Android Pay system to tokenize card numbers and payments startups attracting big VC funding, a variety of players from Samsung to PayPal to Visa ha...
(Video) Finger Pulse Monitor Illuminates Sanctuary Based on Your Stress Levels
[Design]
2015/06/01 11:24
Dynamic Sanctuary, based on the 2016 Ford Edge interior, creates a deeper connection between humans and architecture.Ford partnered with Brooklyn-based design studio The Principals for an installation at Sight Unseen OFFSITE that explored the idea of escapism. An inspiration source for the project was the 2016 Ford Edge and in particular the vehicle’s interior which was designed with a sanctua...
Monthly Trend Report - June. 2015 Edition
[Trendbird]
2015/06/01 11:03
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(Infographic) The History of Commerce - From Cattle to Bitcoin
[Business]
2015/05/26 11:10
Forget about ecommerce for a moment! Imagine trading one of your prized cattle for a piece of land to raise your family in 7000 BC. That’s how it was done back then. Boy how times have changed. Now think about the first ATM in 1972, and how remarkable it was for people to walk up to a magical machine that spewed out physical cash after a few button clicks.The history of ecommerce is truly amaz...
Mobile Valuations Split as Investments and Exits Diverge
[Investing]
2015/05/26 11:09
Mobile investment is growing as quickly as mobile usage and revenue, with $14 billion invested in Q1 2015, up 120 percent compared to Q1 2014 (650 percent higher than Q1 2012). That’s a bull market in anybody’s terms.While the mobile exit market (M&As and IPOs) outpaced investment market growth up to Q2 2014, it has been trending downwards since the mobile IPO fiesta of Q3 2013 to Q2 2014...
(Video) Selfie Sticks Endanger 'Egotastic Narc-Artists,' Warns Pizza Hut PSA
[Business]
2015/05/26 11:09
Selfie sticks are popping up everywhere, and a new fake public service announcement shows why that's a bad thing for your ego -- and basically everyone and everything around you.A new public service announcement on YouTube warns of a far greater danger than the world has ever faced -- selfie sticks.Pizza Hut, which is trying to get you to buy some new kind of pizza it's selling, posted the funn...
