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Rimowa is Disrupting the Handbag Market with Aluminum 'Original Bag'
[Product]
2024/09/24 09:06
The German luggage maker took three years to engineer the new bag in its Cologne factory.In the 1920s, the German luggage maker Rimowa built an aluminum trunk. Over the next decades, the company’s engineers and designers would iterate on its design to create Rimowa’s now iconic product, a wheeled suitcase with grooves, that you will find at airports all over the world.Today, Rimowa unveils th...
(Infographic) Which Countries Are Excited or Nervous About AI ?
[Consumer]
2024/09/24 09:05
Globally, there’s mixed feelings towards AI-powered products and services: 54% of people are excited, and 52% of people are nervous. However, feelings about AI differ substantially between countries.This graphic by creator Julie R. Peasley looks at how these viewpoints vary among people in 31 different countries using data from Ipsos.Base: 22,816 adults under the age of 75 across 31 countries,...
Animal ‘Sacco’ Beanbag Chairs Seat Viewers at Bottega Veneta’s Summer 2025 Show
[Design]
2024/09/24 09:04
60 animal beanbag chairs accommodate visitors inside Bottega Veneta’s SS25 show space during Milan Design Week 2024. They’re joyful, playful, and entirely crafted in leather. They sit low to the ground, so visitors have a different perspective of the models and the collection as they walk through the runway. These animal beanbag chairs aren’t at the show for a wow factor. Creative director M...
Inside China’s Booming $83B Pet Market
[Business]
2024/09/24 09:03
Declining marriage numbers, coupled with a rising single’s economy, are spurring a pet ownership boom in China. Luxury and premium brands have spied potential.Chinese consumers are splurging out on their furry friends more than ever.But it isn’t just your average pet food and run-of-the-mill accessories that are driving the market. The premium sector is seeing the most growth, spurred by luxu...
(Patent) Apple Seeks Adaptable Model Patent as It Readies to Join AI Race
[Tech]
2024/09/23 07:10
The company is seeking to patent “mutable parameters for machine learning models” during runtime. Apple’s tech aims to make it easier for neural networks to be updated as they’re being used without the need to recompile, which takes significant computational resources.“In some instances when executing a given deep neural network, depending on the machine learning task, it may not be possib...
Gallup - Annual Work and Education Survey for 2024
[Consumer]
2024/09/23 07:09
Grocery, Restaurant Industry Images Slide in U.S. Perceptions of sports industry rebound.Gallup’s annual update on Americans’ views of major U.S. industries and business sectors finds two food-related industries -- grocery and restaurant -- rated significantly worse than a year ago. American’s opinions of the publishing industry have also declined meaningfully in the past year. At the same t...
Volkswagen — Don’t Let Risk Take Over The Street By Ogilvy, Bolivia
[Business]
2024/09/23 07:08
Ogilvy Bolivia’s new social campaign for Volkswagen is a clear example that creativity can always be innovative if you dig deep and push ideas to the limit.“VW challenged us with a social campaign to not use cell phones while driving because today the number of people doing so has skyrocketed, and so have the consequences. The challenge was immense. How do we innovate in a message that’s bee...
The Battle Against Inflation is Essentially Over, But It Might Not Feel That Way
[Investing]
2024/09/23 07:07
The Fed’s rate cut is a major milestone, but inflation lingers: just look at the price of eggs, up 60% since August 2020.This week, the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by 0.5%, the first cut since the pandemic, signaling a major turning point in the battle against America’s least-favorite word of recent years: inflation.The big pictureWhy the Fed chose this exact moment to cut the cost...
(Paper) World’s Strongest Battery Paves Way for Light, Energy-Efficient Vehicles
[Tech]
2024/09/23 07:06
When cars, planes, ships or computers are built from a material that functions as both a battery and a load-bearing structure, the weight and energy consumption are radically reduced. A research group at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is now presenting a world-leading advance in so-called massless energy storage – a structural battery that could halve the weight of a laptop, make...
What the Fed’s Big Rate Cut Means for Fashion
[Business]
2024/09/23 07:05
The US central bank’s first interest rate cut since the pandemic will make borrowing cheaper for consumers and companies alike. That’s good news for retailers.Money just got a little less expensive.On Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve made its first interest rate cut in four years, effectively declaring victory in its effort to bring down inflation that set in after the pandemic. Officials vo...
Pengoo : A Set of Asthma-Related Care Products For Children
[Design]
2024/09/23 07:04
Breathing exercises can improve the condition of children with asthma. Overtime, certain method can help children better control their condition when experiencing asthma attack. Pengoo is a set of asthma-related care products designed specifically for children to help improve their condition. However, please keep in mind that these exercises can’t replace children asthma medication. Each set i...
Ranked : America’s Top Universities in 2024
[Consumer]
2024/09/23 07:03
Home to the highest number of top 100 universities in the world, the U.S. has no shortage of exceptional schools to apply to.From the range of programs to tuition costs and student life, prospective students have a range of factors to consider when deciding which school is best for them.Forbes’ annual America’s Top Colleges rankings provides valuable insights by evaluating U.S. universities o...
