TREND REPORTS
(Video) A Clever Shock-Absorbing Bike Wheel, Now for Wheelchairs
[Product]
2015/04/09 11:07
Loopwheels, as its called, was recently shortlisted for the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year award. When we first covered the product in 2013, cycling enthusiasts gave it a ringing endorsement, saying they were “immediately impressed at the ride quality.” Since then, Loopwheels has expanded from bikes to wheelchairs.Entreprrneurs love to claim they’re “reinventing the wheel.” So...
A Chart Showing You How Much Water It Takes To Grow All The Food You Eat
[Consumer]
2015/04/09 11:04
How much more water does it take to produce an ounce of bread, than a ounce of juice? The answer is not quite what you might expect.[click to enlarge]This chart is the work of Kyle Kim over at the LA Times, and it breaks down just how much water goes into producing different kinds of common foods. As you can see, meat is (unsurprisingly) the top water siphoner, but even beyond that category the...
Which Social Networks Have the Most Engaged Audience ?
[Consumer]
2015/04/09 11:04
Social media remains one of the paramount digital topics, as leading platforms continue to attract huge audiences and account for an increasingly large share of consumers’ time spent online. To get a sense of how these social networks will fare over the course of this year, it’s worth getting some perspective as to how they stack up against each other in the present.Facebook remains the golia...
(Video) Philips Hue Go Offers Smart Lighting Without The Cord
[Product]
2015/04/09 11:03
The Hue Go can output at up to 300 lumens when plugged in, but cuts it to 40 percent brightness when used unplugged to maximums battery, which gives you a pleasing but dim kind of ambient lighting.Overall, it’s plenty bright for most cases where you’d be using a portable lighting solution anyway, especially given that this isn’t a work light designed for the workshop, for instance. It’s als...
(Infographic) The CEO Bookshelf : 22 Top CEOs Reveal Their Favorite Books
[Business]
2015/04/08 11:27
Just as the books US presidents read shape their time in office, so do the titles that CEOs read during their tenure. Some reach for the classics like "The Catcher in the Rye." Others go for the quirky, such as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Then there are those CEOs that read books about other CEOs. For more recommendations, check out this visual reading list created by Domo and CEO.c...
(Video) New Camera Technique Detects Heart, Respiratory Rates in Nearly All People
[Tech]
2015/04/08 11:26
Video-based recognition of persons’ heart and breathing rates is no longer new, but the technology has been limited to people with light skin who are well illuminated by external lighting. Researchers at Rice University have developed their own version of the technique, which they call DistancePPG, that is able to compensate for different skin tones, patient movement, and the ambient lighting...
Diet Soda Drinkers Are Disappearing
[Consumer]
2015/04/08 11:26
Diet sodas are going back out of style. After four years of outselling Pepsi, Diet Coke is back in the No. 3 slot for top sodas in the U.S., according to the latest industry data, and other sugar-free brands are also dropping quickly.Overall, the number of soda drinkers in the U.S. continues to shrink, as is clear by the steady decline in the volume of soda produced since 2000. According to Gal...
How Rich People Make Their Money Totally Differently From Everyone Else
[Investing]
2015/04/08 11:26
Last night, Justin Wolfers Tweeted a chart from Visualizing Economics' Catherine Mulbrandon showing Lorenz curves ? distribution breakdowns ? by income source: labor, capital, business and capital gains.It reveals how different parts of the population get their income way differently than others ? but that the rich enjoy a minimum 50% share of each source of income, and practically the entire s...
Peugeot Design Shows an Ingenious Foodtruck
[Design]
2015/04/08 11:26
Le Bistrot du Lion transcends the traditional food truck by using a compact van and trailer with massive load capacity which both unfold to double their length and create an entire mobile restaurant catering for 30 patrons. This idea has legs.Good design is a functional expression of purpose and after 200 years of creating household technology and a century of making transportation technology,...
