Monthly Trend Report - June. 2015 Edition
MONTHLY TREND REPORT - June. 2015 Edition Released !"TRENDBIRD (What's the Next Big Thing ?) is a Global Trend Research & Consulting Service th...
(Infographic) The History of Commerce - From Cattle to Bitcoin
Forget about ecommerce for a moment! Imagine trading one of your prized cattle for a piece of land to raise your family in 7000 BC. That’s how it...
Mobile Valuations Split as Investments and Exits Diverge
Mobile investment is growing as quickly as mobile usage and revenue, with $14 billion invested in Q1 2015, up 120 percent compared to Q1 2014 (650...
(Video) Selfie Sticks Endanger 'Egotastic Narc-Artists,' Warns Pizz...
Selfie sticks are popping up everywhere, and a new fake public service announcement shows why that's a bad thing for your ego -- and basically ever...
The World's First 3D Fabric Printer - Electroloom
Inspired by 3D printers, the idea came from a gang of entrepreneurs after working at California Polytechnic State University. This unique process o...
The Future is Mobile and Apps, Except That it isn't.
There are two charts that capture a lot of the way we think about mobile today. In the first, we see that mobile devices are approaching a majority...
(Video) Supermarket's "Indoor Sat-Nav" Guides Shoppers to Discounts
A newly-refurbished Carrefour hypermarket in Lille, France, has had its fluorescent lighting replaced with LED fixtures containing Philips Visible...
Food & Board : Edible Billboards Offers Branded Experiences
Eighty percent of companies plan to increase their digital marketing budgets over the next 12 to 18 months, according to a study released earlier t...
(Video) Sweden's 'Hemnet Home' Crowdsourced from 200 Million Web Se...
If you adore box-like, red houses with open kitchens and around 1,200 square feet of space, guess what! You're an average Swede, apparently. Real e...
(PDF) BCG - Winning at Omnichannel Pricing
Maximizing Growth While Protecting Margins.Ever since the world’s second merchant set up shop to compete with the first, pricing has bedeviled ret...
(Video) Dior Uses Virtual Reality to Grant Backstage Passes
In a trend dubbed "retailtainment," the French label has created a branded VR headset that gives a look behind runway curtains.With the runway bein...
Samsung is Losing Share in China
Earlier this week, Samsung revealed that it shipped 10 million units of its latest flagship smartphone, Galaxy S6, which launched about a month ago...
This Kitchen Table Uses No Electricity to Regulate the Temperature...
Paris-based industrial designer Jean-Sébastien Lagrange teamed up with French engineer Raphaël Ménard to create the Zero Energy Furniture table,...
College Majors : The Highest Starting Wages
If you want to earn serious money in your very first job after university, you should major in architecture or engineering. According to Georgetown...
Bendable Sofa Tray Table
These cool new Sofa Tray Tables are flexible wooden tray tables that fit over a rectangular armrest on a sofa and easily roll up for easy storage w...
Ecocapsule is The Egg-Shaped Tiny Home That Can Go Off-Grid and Off...
Bratislava based Nice Architects introduce the very nice and very boat-like Ecocapsule, " a low-energy house packed into a compact form. It merges...
(Infographic) The Rise Of 'Generation #Hashtag'
Just as digital forms of media have largely replaced their physical originals, a third wave of media content is now rising fast. Native digital con...
(Patent) Google Patents a Way to Win a Text Message Argument
With the proliferation of smartphones, arguments tend to last about as long as it takes someone to Google the answer to whatever they’ve been argu...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Building the Cities of the Future with Green Distr...
Better design can make sense aesthetically, environmentally—and economically.At the current pace of urbanization, the world’s cities will add 65...
Facial-Recognition Lets Marketers Gauge Consumers' Real Responses t...
The future of ad testing is not about surveys, but about smiles and smirks.If you want to know whether a spot really sells, after all, shouldn't yo...
(Video) Share URLs by sound with Google Tone
This experimental Chrome extension lets you broadcast a sound to nearby computers to share a link.Sharing a link to a Web page with a friend is as...
HAX Accelerator’s Startups Get Healthy
HAX, formerly Haxlr8r, has been incubating hardware startups since 2011, taking 65 companies to market so far. FeetMe's smart insoles detect pressu...
EcoQube C Fish Tank Uses a Plant to Clean its Water
The EcoQube C reportedly doesn't need to be cleaned by its owner.Owning an aquarium can be quite enjoyable, but it comes with plenty of headaches....
World's Longest Glass Bridge Set to Open in China Next Year
An artist's concept of people walking across the glass bridge high above the Zhangjiajie canyon in China.In a bid to attract more tourists to the r...
(Infographic) The UK’s Most Popular Wedding Trends
This wedding Infographic from The Italian Villa has some great facts about the popular UK trends of the bride and groom and their wedding day.Infog...
(PDF) Deloitte Consulting - Digital Democracy Survey
Streaming services fuel consumers’ appetite for bingeing, with two-thirds now binge-watching content, according to the latest Deloitte Digital Dem...
Why Brands like Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Sonic are Shrinking their...
Consumers view sugar and fat to be the new tobacco, according to new research by Havas Worldwide.Food and beverage giants are shrinking their offer...
An Emerging American Trend is Terrifying News for Macy's, Kohl's, a...
Consumers are spending more on cell phones and less on clothes.Retailers like Macy's, J.C. Penney, and Kohl's have all reported mediocre results th...
The Math of Starbucks’ New Mini-Sized Frappuccino
WHEN LIFE GIVES you lemons, make lemonade. But when life gives you data, make a model. One way to model real life things is to create a plot. If yo...
(Video) Technology for Forming Normal Temperature Diamond-like Carb...
STRAWB has developed a DLC coating system, for forming films of diamond-like carbon on dentures. This system produces a plasma in a vacuum chamber,...
These High-School Students Found a Way to Make Any Headphones Wireless
Wireless headphones have been around for awhile, but a device that can make any old set of headphones wireless is about to hit the market.Launching...
Jawbone, Practice Fusion, Health Catalyst next to IPO, Digital Heal...
First Fitbit files IPO papers, then MindBody (software for yoga studios, etc.) follows suit last week. So who’s next? The good folks over at Rock...