TREND REPORTS
(CES 2025) "Humanpods" Equipped With Suite of AI Personas to Be Unveiled at CES 2025
[Product]
2025/01/15 09:07
Designed by startup Natura Umana, the earbuds offer different AI personas based on the users needs, whether it be a therapist or a fitness trainer.AI-focussed tech startup Natura Umana has teased the Humanpods earbuds, an open-ear wireless design that gives users access to artificial intelligence assistance with a gentle tap. Set to be officially unveiled at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, the company d...
Bain - 4 Ways to Improve Performance in Financial Services
[Business]
2025/01/15 09:06
Smart technology choices alone won’t fuel change. True adoption requires a culture shift.[bain]
eVTOL 'Flying Motorcycle' Promises 40 Minutes of Flight Endurance
[Product]
2025/01/15 09:05
The "world’s first amphibious flying passenger motorcycle," called the Skyrider X1, has just been unveiled at CES in Las Vegas. It rides, it flies – autonomously, no less – and it’ll be pretty darn wild if it does what it says on the tin.The vehicle is built by Rictor, which is a sub-brand of Chinese company Kuickwheel – which focuses on eco-friendly and energy-efficient mobility options,...
The Rise of News Influencers and Where They Can Be Found
[Business]
2025/01/15 09:04
The 2024 presidential campaign that resulted in the re-election of Donald Trump was unique in many ways. One thing it demonstrated is the increased power that individual voices, first and foremost on social media, have in comparison to the actual “fourth power”, the news media. And it’s not just mega influencers like Elon Musk or Joe Rogan, people with tens of millions of followers on social...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The State of Luxury : How to Navigate a Slowdown
[Business]
2025/01/14 09:10
Macroeconomic headwinds, shifting client preferences, and a deteriorating value proposition are weighing on the global luxury sector. The Business of Fashion and McKinsey outline five strategic imperatives for luxury executives.Over the past five years, the luxury industry experienced a period of exceptional value creation. Between 2019 and 2023, unprecedented demand for personal luxury goods—...
(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...
