TREND REPORTS
The Astonishing Comeback, and Undeniable Insignificance, of Vinyl
[Business]
2015/04/21 11:33
From east London, to Brooklyn, to Tokyo and far beyond, thousands of music enthusiasts flocked to record stores around the world on April 18 to buy vinyl albums made by their favorite artists.It was the ninth annual Record Store Day, a wildly successful promotion conceived of in 2007 by a group of music shops in the US, which later spread abroad, as a way to keep independent record stores afloa...
Native Advertising Measurement Is All Over The Map
[Business]
2015/04/21 11:31
So-called native advertising is the shiny new object in digital media. Publishers love selling it, and marketers are increasing their investments in it.According to eMarketer predictions, native ad spending in the U.S. will grow 34% in 2015 to reach $4.3 billion. Publishers from Web startups like Buzzeed to major newspapers including the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal now publish na...
(Infographic) What’s In The Air We Breathe?
[Consumer]
2015/04/21 11:31
More than you eat, more than you drink, more than you do anything else in your life, you breathe. It’s the one thing, other than maybe your heartbeat, that continues to happen even when you aren’t thinking about it. But even if you aren’t telling yourself, in your head, “Breathe in, breathe out,” you should definitely be thinking about the air around you! Pollutants in the air are too smal...
(PDF) Disney Research Develops New Fabric 3D Printer
[Tech]
2015/04/20 15:17
A new paper from Disney Research, “A Layered Fabric 3D Printer for Soft Interactive Objects-Paper,” penned by Huaishu Peng (of Disney Research Pittsburgh and Cornell University), Jen Mankoff (of Carnegie Mellon University), Scott E. Hudson (of Disney Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University), and James McCann (of Disney Research Pittsburgh), details a whole new kind of 3D printer.Un...
Mckinsey - Will China Get Fat Before It Gets Rich ?
[Business]
2015/04/20 15:17
The rising wave of obesity around the world and its health and economic costs cannot be ignored?even in China. This is no longer a “western” problem. Today, 62 percent of the world’s obese people are in developing countries.Global scourgeMore than 2.1 billion people?nearly 30 percent of the global population?are overweight or obese today. That’s nearly two and a half times the number of adu...
Airbus Reveals A380 'Budget Economy' Seating, 11-Across Squeeze
[Design]
2015/04/20 11:57
Airbus is ready to pack even more economy passengers into its A380 superjumbo with a tight-fitting '11 across' seating option.Forget about the cheap seats being grouped in a 3-4-3 layout: Airbus has squeezed an extra seat into the centre row to create a 3-5-3 configuration. Here's the official Airbus PR pic, showing the middle seat which nobody will want to be stuck in.The photo below ? snapped...
What Kind of Fin Tech Startups is JP Morgan Chase Investing In ?
[Investing]
2015/04/20 11:56
JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon has warned that Silicon Valley is coming. His firm is meeting the challenge head-on investing in many Fin Tech startups in areas ranging from lending tech to robo-advisors.In his annual shareholder letter, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sounded the alarm on a wave of Fin Tech startup competitors coming after traditional banking.While Dimon’s letter implied future partne...
(Video) Driving the Future of Head-Up Displays with DLP? Technology
[Tech]
2015/04/20 11:56
New TI DLP could put bigger, brighter head-up displays into every car.Your next car might have an augmented reality head-up display that puts navigation arrows atop the actual fork in the road and overlays icons on landmarks you’re looking for. This is the promise of a new Texas Instruments DLP chipset for HUDs that doubles the field of view and works with brighter light sources such as LEDs a...
(Video) Misoka Toothbrush Cleans Your Teeth with Nanotech Ions Instead of Toothpaste
[Product]
2015/04/20 11:56
Japanese designer Kosho Ueshima has designed a nanotech toothbrush that cleans your teeth without toothpaste.The Misoka toothbrush, created in collaboration with Osaka technology company Yumeshokunin, features bristles coated in nano-sized mineral ions measuring one billionth of a metre in diameter.The ions pass from the bristles to the teeth during brushing, removing stains and forming a prote...
