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Brxnd.ai Uses AI to Let You Create The Brand Mashups of Your Dreams
[Business]
2022/12/19 09:03
With mashups like Little Caesars x Hello Kitty, BrXnd.ai lets users dream up amazing—and cursed—brand collabs.Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture.Imagine Microsoft collaborating with The Hundreds on a hoodie. Or Warby Parker executing a sneaker in collaboration with WD-40. Or a Little Caesars x Hello Kitty skateboard.As popular as...
(Patent) Airbnb Patent - A Visual Attractiveness Scoring System
[Tech]
2022/12/16 09:10
Airbnb wants to rate your photography skills. The company submitted an application for a visual attractiveness scoring system. It goes something like this: Hosts submit a series of photos for their listing and the system generates a “base visual score” for each image based on the scene type, finally recommending a “suggested photo order.” “Leading with these five listing photos will help y...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Crafting an Omnichannel Value Proposition for The e-Grocery Revolution
[Business]
2022/12/16 09:09
Shifting consumer attitudes have accelerated the trial and adoption of e-grocery, with implications for omnichannel strategy.Before the pandemic, grocery was often described as the last frontier of e-commerce. The dramatic acceleration of growth and consumer acceptance of online channels over the past two years has changed the equation.The growth of e-commerce is being spurred by convenience (...
Black Sheep Foods Raises $12.03M in Series A Funding
[Investing]
2022/12/16 09:08
Black Sheep Foods, a San Francisco, CA-based foodtech company, raised $12.03M in Series A funding. The round was led by Unovis, alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, AgFunder, and KBW Ventures.The company, which has raised $18.05 Million since founding in 2019, intends to use the funds to scale up production for its debut lamb made from plants for national distribution.Led by CEO Sunny Kumar, Bl...
Bain - Boost Long-Term E-commerce Growth with Payments Optimization
[Business]
2022/12/16 09:07
To protect against fraud and recapture value at checkout, retailers are turning to third-party solutions.Meeting growth expectations has proven challenging for retailers, and rising fraud and abuse rates make it more difficult to balance growth and risk management.The checkout process is an often overlooked but vitally important area to capture value, but few retailers have the capabilities to...
‘Nature-Rinsing’ is The Perfect Term for Our Age of Climate Anxiety
[Design]
2022/12/16 09:06
Automakers, airlines, and oil companies love using nature imagery in their advertisements. Now we have a new term to describe this manipulative practice.This past summer, Mercedes-Benz rolled out an ad called “Nature or Nothing.” In it, the luxury car brand depicted a random montage of nature-related imagery—the veins of a leaf, a gooey honeycomb cell, the folds between rose petals—that ser...
(Infographic) Sports Fans Are Happy and Engaged Off the Field, Too
[Consumer]
2022/12/16 09:05
Fox Sports finds that no matter the audience's age, they have more friends and are interested in the wider world. Older fans who remain avid about sports are twice as likely than non-fans to be interested in international news.Fox’s Thanksgiving Day New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys NFL game averaged 42 million viewers, breaking a TV record set in 1990.In addition to its eye-popping NFL ratin...
Universal TV Remote with a Built-in Touchscreen Display - The TouchSense Remote
[Design]
2022/12/16 09:04
In theory, the TouchSense Remote sounds like a brilliant idea. It could work with practically any TV or set-top box, replacing the need for multiple remote controls, and giving you one device with one interface that’s easy to understand and master. The dynamic touchscreen surface can easily transform to display the UI of any streaming service (in any language too), giving you the ability to mo...
MSCHF's ATM Leaderboard "An Extremely Literal Distillation of Wealth-Flaunting Impulses"
[Product]
2022/12/16 09:03
Art and design collective MSCHF has created an ATM that shows a leaderboard of users' current account balances, which was on display during Miami Art Week.The piece – shown at the Perrotin gallery's booth at Art Basel in Miami – consisted of a standard functional ATM with a screen above that depicts the balance in the user's checking account.In addition to the account information, the screen...
(PDF) Bain - China Shopper Report 2022
[Consumer]
2022/12/15 09:10
China FMCG: Still Volatile, But with Signs of Hope.This is the eleventh consecutive year that we have tracked the shopping behaviors of Chinese consumers. Our continuing research has given us a valuable long-term view across 106 fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) categories purchased for home consumption in China. As in past years, we analyzed the 26 key categories1 that span the four largest co...
(Patent) Amazon Patent - A Adjustable Motor Fairings for Aerial Vehicles
[Tech]
2022/12/15 09:09
Amazon is giving its drones a smoother ride. The company is creating adjustable fairings that “reduce aerodynamic drag” of its unmanned aerial vehicles by adjusting their position depending on the drone’s flight configuration, giving its pilot more control for a safe landing. Amazon has long had high hopes of bulking up its drone delivery fleet. The company announced plans this summer to beg...
NASA’s New Wonder Battery Could Power Electric Flight Someday
[Tech]
2022/12/15 09:07
NASA is testing a new graphene battery that could be a game changer for aviation and electric vehicles.NASA knows our civilization has a huge problem: We have to fight climate change while satisfying our need for cheap, easy transportation over land, sea, and air. That means we need to electrify cars, ships, and airplanes—a task that is impossible right now because we don’t have the technolog...
