TREND REPORTS
Google Introduces Chatbot, Other Generative AI Creation Tools for Marketers
[Product]
2023/06/01 09:06
Long in the background, Google brought its AI tools to the front-end at its Google Marketing Live conference.Transforming your ad sales process just got a lot easier. Learn how to extract more value for existing technology and ultimately drive revenue, ratings and retention in Slack's new ebook.Artificial intelligence has been fundamental to Google’s advertising for decades, but often in ways...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Working Hard for The Money : The Crunch on Global Economic Profit
[Investing]
2023/06/01 09:05
Global economic-profit pools have been shrinking over the past two decades. What’s going on ?The wider the spread between a company’s ROIC and its cost of capital, the more economic profit1 its capital will create. Since global GDP has grown impressively over the past two decades—even given significant geopolitical and market shocks along the way—one might expect that companies’ aggregate...
Lush Launches Its First Packaging-Free Mascara
[Product]
2023/06/01 09:04
Lush takes a bite out of the 120 billion pieces of mostly unrecycled beauty packaging the world creates every year.The packaging of beauty products is hard. Many products have certain requirements to ensure their quality, while many consumers want packaging that is easy to use and easy on the eye. Meeting all of those requirements in a recyclable format is both challenging and expensive.“Many...
Monthly Trend Report - June. 2023
[Trendbird]
2023/06/01 09:03
MONTHLY TREND REPORT - June. 2023 Edition Released !TRENDBIRD (What's the Next Big Thing ?) is a Global Trend Research & Consulting Service that Instantly Delivers Industry Expert Information on Emerging Trends & Future Business Opportunities from Around the World, Always Ahead of The Curve."
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Beauty Market in 2023 Report
[Business]
2023/05/25 09:10
The glow of the beauty industry has proved hard to resist, attracting many new companies and investors. Brands must make differentiating choices to find success in this shifting and increasingly competitive landscape.In 2022, the beauty market—defined as skincare, fragrance, makeup, and haircare—generated approximately $430 billion in revenue. Today, beauty is on an upward trajectory across a...
(Video) EPFL - This Soft Robot Unfurls Inside the Skull
[Tech]
2023/05/25 09:09
New device could improve brain-computer interfaces. A circle with six spiral waves curling from it's center, and a gold electrode sits in an exposed section of brain in a mannequin's head.An octopus-like soft robot can unfurl itself inside the skull on top of the brain, a new study finds. The novel gadget may lead to minimally invasive ways to investigate the brain and implant brain-computer in...
Apparel Store in France Invites Shoppers Into Nostalgic Gravity-Defying Pool
[Design]
2023/05/25 09:08
An avant-garde retail experience welcomes shoppers to browse Parisian fashion brand Heimstone’s apparel in a gravity-defying swimming pool. The ‘Heimstone Public Pool’ store sits in the heart of the coastal town of Saint Tropez, France, designed by The Refreshment Club as a 360 degree experiential campaign. The intriguing design concept draws on the charming allure of Americana public pools...
Amazon ‘Aggregators’ Who Raised $16 Billion Are Teetering
[Investing]
2023/05/25 09:07
During the pandemic, Wall Street banks and private equity firms invested billions of dollars in startups rolling up popular brands sold on Amazon.com Inc. The bet was that these upstarts, fueled by an online sales boom, would become the next consumer product conglomerates — like Procter & Gamble or Unilever. Then the pandemic ended, consumers returned to the stores, and Amazon’s sales gro...
ChatGPT and Generative AI in Search : The Biggest Digital Ad Format Is Ripe for Revolution
[Business]
2023/05/25 09:06
Microsoft and Google are racing to develop the best AI-assisted search experience, leaving advertisers on the precipice of major disruption in the largest and most mature digital advertising channel. But the only certainty is that disruption is coming, and quickly. Everything else—even the fate of the open web—is up in the air.OpenAI's ChatGPT was an immediate success, gaining 1 million users...
Seven Bank Plans Japan's First Facial Recognition ATM Service
[Product]
2023/05/25 09:05
Facial recognition will let Seven Bank customers withdraw cash from ATMs without using a card each time. Japan's Seven Bank will allow customers to deposit and withdraw cash using facial recognition at around 20,000 ATMs nationwide as early as March 2024, President Masaaki Matsuhashi has told Nikkei.The service will be the first of its kind in Japan, Matsuhashi said. The bank, a unit of Seven-E...
Samsung Display Unveils Display That Rolls Up Like a Scroll
[Product]
2023/05/25 09:04
Rollable Flex can extend by five times in length, using an O-shaped axis like a scroll. Samsung Display said on Tuesday that it has developed a new display that can be rolled and unrolled vertically like a scroll.Rollable Flex stands at 49mm in length but can be rolled and unrolled vertically to extend to 254.4mm, using an O-shaped axis, the display panel maker said.Also: The best Samsung phone...
The Rise of the Luxury Picnic
[Business]
2023/05/25 09:03
Goodbye, sandwiches and gingham blankets. Hello, macaron towers and string quartets. A lavishly decorated picnic table made of wooden pallets sits on a grassy lawn; the scene is interspersed with photos of decadent platters of food. Photo collage. The image of a picnic has remained relatively unchanged for decades: a gingham blanket here, a basket of snacks there, maybe spread out across a gras...
