Despite low consumer confidence, pockets of growth in China’s vast consumer market remain. Looking back over the past few months since our last China Brief update in April, not much has changed.China’s GDP grew at a steady 5 percent during the first half of the year, while retail sales ticked modestly upward by 3.7 percent during this period.We see few signs that this picture of single-digit...

3D printing techniques are having a moment among fashion’s risk-taking players. But can the tech play a bigger role in the luxury industry?Coperni, a brand now synonymous with runway tech spectacles, unveiled its latest breakthrough at its fairytale-inspired Spring 2025 Paris show last Tuesday: a 3D-printed handbag.The Ariel Swipe Bag, developed in collaboration with Boston-based manufacturing...

The interlocking bricks, which can be repurposed many times over, can withstand similar pressures as their concrete counterparts.What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled into a new structure, in a sustainable cycle that could supply generat...

With the advent of short video content, social media usage has changed entirely. For example, platforms like Instagram and TikTok switched to it. This drastic rise in the acceptance of such content has led companies to redesign their tactics to reach out to their audience. Middle Eastern businesses need to keep up with these changes.In the following infographic from Go-Globe, see the developmen...

Research showing that sitting for extended periods is bad for your health led to an explosion in the popularity of standing desks. And for those looking to get in some cardio while chained to the desk, under-desk treadmills let you do just that. Urevo offers a range of treadmills and has taken to Kickstarter with its most compact unit yet, with a design inspired by the “iconic Tesla CyberTruck...

Following in the footsteps of NFL star Tom Brady, Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, and the mayor of Flavortown, David and Victoria Beckham have reportedly purchased a Miami Beach mansion for a posh $60 million.The couple’s rumored new stateside “Beckingham Palace” features 9 bedrooms, as well as the run-of-the-mill pool, spa, gym, and cinema that come almost as standard among the area’s sprawling w...

Ever since employees discovered that they didn’t always have to be in the office to still be productive, there has been an increase in people who prefer working in another space instead of their cubicle. That also means there are more product designers thinking of furniture, tools, and accessories that would cater to this segment of digital nomads.Worknic is a portable desk that was developed...

A new McKinsey analysis quantifies the impact that digital and AI can have on consumer goods businesses and where consumer-packaged-goods executives should focus their efforts.The narrative surrounding generative AI (gen AI), a moon shot, once-in-a-generation innovation, is that it could utterly reinvent how businesses—consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies among them—are run.CPG leaders are...

Overpopulation and an unprecedented rise in residential developments has made privacy scarce in major U.S. cities. Leading to exposed windows, and exposed lives. To WhatsApp, privacy is everything. [click to enlarge]With proprietary end-to-end encryption, interlocking layers of protection and countless other privacy measures, no other messaging application is doing it quite like they do.So to s...