TREND REPORTS
Fenty Beauty Exposed—and Helped Remedy—the Makeup Industry’s Lack of Inclusivity
[Business]
2022/10/06 09:03
How a celebrity brand shook up the cosmetics business, one shade at a time.Two years ago, model and businesswoman Beverly Johnson wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post looking back on some history she had made 46 years earlier. In August 1974, Johnson became the first Black woman to be featured on the cover of Vogue magazine.But Johnson was not in a nostalgic mood. The fashion and beauty indus...
(Paper) A Project Titan Patent from Apple Reveals An Advanced Windshield System
[Tech]
2022/10/05 09:10
Earlier this month the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to Project Titan. Apple's patent covers systems, apparatus, and techniques for sensing defects associated with a window and for performing image processing based at least partly on the sensed defects. Apple's patent describes a lighting and camera system on the windshield of an autonom...
(PDF) BCG - Win the Town to Win the Future of Retail
[Business]
2022/10/05 09:09
It’s no longer as simple as “bigger is better.” Retailers need to build local ecosystems to reach customers where they live and work.The old rules of retail are gone.Historically, retailers have followed a strategy of building scale through store expansion and geographic reach. More brick-and-mortar stores meant greater economies of scale, lower operational costs, and the buying power to red...
(Paper) Microchip Helps Tiny Robots Move Autonomously and Untethered
[Tech]
2022/10/05 09:08
A robot invisible to the naked eye has a tiny microprocessor “brain” onboard. Building self-sufficient robots is no easy task. One reason is because autonomous robots need to have onboard control, using an internal processing system to undertake actions. Onboard control is even more difficult to implement on a micro scale, where systems must be downsized to near-invisibility while retaining t...
The World’s Top 20 Millionaire Cities Shows Where They’re Going Next
[Consumer]
2022/10/05 09:07
Where do all the millionaires live? More and more, not where they used to.Henley & Partners, which bills itself as an investment migration consultancy, has just released its Global Citizens report in partnership with wealth intelligence firm New World Wealth, showing the 20 most millionaire cities in the world.It’s no surprise that New York is number one on the list, but it might be surpri...
(Video) Frozen Food Brand Unveils Packaging That Guides The Visually Impaired At Grocers
[Business]
2022/10/05 09:06
Find supermarket runs a chore? It’s even more daunting for visually impaired people. To make grocery runs a little smoother for this group of customers, UK frozen food brand Aunt Bessie’s has partnered with the Royal National Institute of Blind People to introduce innovative packaging to help them navigate the isles.Tapping on NaviLens technology, customers can download an accompanying smartp...
A Brief History of Recorded Music Industry
[Business]
2022/10/05 09:05
The music industry is continuing its comeback according to new data from the RIAA, with recorded music revenues in the US growing 9% in the first half of this year.As it wasDriving much of that growth was streaming, which has given the music industry a much-needed revival after online piracy hastened the demise of mainstream physical formats like CDs.That revival has struck a chord with a parti...
(Video) World's First Flying Electric Boat Concept Complete Its Test Flight - REGENT Seaglider
[Product]
2022/10/05 09:04
Regent's electric seaglider successfully completed its first series of flights and demonstrated her ability to fully fulfill its "float-foil-fly" mission.A video of Regent's unique Seaglider prototype in flight testing has just been released. The machine offers breakthrough speed and range in coastal locations as the first to combine the efficiency benefits of ground effect with hydro-foiling i...
The Downtown Circle : The Eepic Sky Ring Around Burj Khalifa
[Design]
2022/10/05 09:03
Land is becoming scarce, especially in metropolitan areas where every square meter can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. With nowhere else to go but up, people have been building taller architectures, whether for business or for residence, paving the way for the sun-blocking towers of dystopian science fiction. Before things get worse, however, some visionaries have started to design s...
(PDF) Deloitte - The Metaverse Overview : Vision, Technology, and Tactics
[Business]
2022/10/04 09:10
Looking back at 2021 – the first year of the Metaverse – its breakout was much more intense and the responses of market participants were much faster than they were when the internet entered global consciousness. A glance at the global and Chinese markets reveals that the Metaverse is by no means just an experiment for small-scale players, but has become a landscape for all of humanity to exp...
Meta’s Make-A-Video AI Achieves A New, Nightmarish State of The Art
[Tech]
2022/10/04 09:09
Meta’s researchers have made a significant leap in the AI art-generation field with Make-A-Video, the creatively named new technique for — you guessed it — making a video out of nothing but a text prompt. The results are impressive and varied, and all, with no exceptions, slightly creepy.We’ve seen text-to-video models before — it’s a natural extension of text-to-image models like DALL-E,...
(Video) Walmart Enters Metaverse with Massive Roblox Effort
[Business]
2022/10/04 09:08
Virtual merchandise slots for beauty, fashion and toy brands abound in combination music festival, theme park and dressing room. Hold onto your headsets! Today, Walmart is announcing the launch of two new immersive experiences in the metaverse mega-platform, Roblox. Called Walmart Land and Walmart’s Universe of Play, the spaces offer unique interactive content and entertainment for customers,...
