TREND REPORTS
(CES 2025) Extraordinary Transforming Road Yacht RV Drops Jaws at CES
[Product]
2025/01/14 09:09
AC Future packages serious living space in a fairly compact, camper van-sized Class.When the design greats at Pininfarina teamed with California startup AC Future on the dramatic eTH expanding electric motorhome for CES 2024, the unique vessel seemed unlikely to be anything more than a folder full of renderings. But a year later, it's much more: a complete multi-expanding prototype with a slidi...
AI Wants More Data. More Chips. More Real Estate. More Power. More Water.
[Business]
2025/01/14 09:08
Businesses, investors and society brace for a demand shock from artificial intelligence.It looks easy enough: Ask ChatGPT something, and it responds. But pull back the curtain, and you’ll find that every ChatGPT prompt and Microsoft Copilot task consumes vast resources. Millions of human beings engineering, correcting and training models. Enough terawatt-hours of electricity to power countries...
Phone-Sized Dual-Screen E-Ink Reader Concept
[Design]
2025/01/14 09:06
E-book readers today no longer come in the drab, uninspiring, and cheap forms of the early Amazon Kindles, though those certainly do still exist. Some are now Android tablets in disguise, bringing the versatility and, unfortunately, temptations of regular tablets to the E Ink world. Some go in the opposite direction, shrinking the size down to the palm of your hand, looking like smartphones but...
The Business of Selling Booze is Under Pressure
[Business]
2025/01/14 09:05
The surgeon general wants Americans to drink less alcohol — but we didn’t even need the nudge. America’s relationship with alcohol has often straddled a perplexing dichotomy between total abstinence and unbridled excess.George Washington supposedly plied voters in the first ever US election with gallons of alcohol, before later denouncing booze as “the ruin of half the workmen in this Count...
The Mono Study Pod
[Design]
2025/01/14 09:04
Pods come with limited space and are only suitable for a single user or for smaller meetings or presentations, thus restricting the number of participants who can attend meetings within the pod office.One such example is the Mono study pod, designed by Philip Bogaerts and René Vullings for an office furniture brand, stands out as a foldable, sound-dampened workspace. Its flexibility allows for...
Joey Crawling Aid For Babies
[Design]
2025/01/14 09:03
Joey is a revolutionary crawling product proven to aid the physical and cognitive development of infants at risk of delay. Daytot, a pioneering start-up dedicated to supporting infant development, approached Affect Design Studio to create Joey, an innovative product designed to help young babies with vulnerabilities learn to crawl. Joey promotes prone positioning and active movement—critical a...
(PDF) Lefty Trend Report - A Year in Data 2024
[Business]
2025/01/13 09:10
If 2023 was all about culture, 2024 was the year luxury and entertainment collided in bold, immersive ways.Brands went big, creating entire universes through storytelling, talent partnerships, and cross-category activations spanning cinema, music, and sports.Curious how this shaped strategies moving into 2025? Lefty and Karla Otto’s Year in Data report breaks it all down with exclusive insight...
Fermata's $10M Series A Funding for Innovative AI Solution Targeting Agriculture
[Investing]
2025/01/13 09:09
Fermata uses computer vision to detect diseases and pests in plants.When Valeria Kogan started her PhD program in bioinformatics, the scientific field that uses computation and software to analyze biological data, in 2017, she imagined her career would always be within the fields of mathematics, medicine, or biology. But after the first AI boom in the late 2010s, she got an intriguing opportuni...
Tesla Facelifts the Model Y With Cybertruck-Like Front End
[Product]
2025/01/13 09:08
Best-selling SUV was due for an update five years after launch. EV maker just posted first annual sales drop in over a decade.Tesla Inc. refreshed its best-selling Model Y, applying a design element of the polarizing Cybertruck to its high-volume sport utility vehicle.The model made its debut on Tesla’s China website on Friday, where the company started taking orders for deliveries starting in...
