TREND REPORTS
Newzoo : American Gamers Play Games More Than Any Other Leisure Activity
[Consumer]
2021/11/03 09:06
Newzoo released a report with new insights on American gamers. Not only do Americans prefer games over any other leisure activity (though not by a large margin), they also prefer games with puzzle-solving mechanics.One of the points of data in the new report is that gaming is the most popular leisure activity for American under the age of 50. The amount of American respondents aged 10 to 20 who...
A Hidden Induction Cooking Unit is the Best Part of Tech-Savvy Kitchen - Lapitec
[Product]
2021/11/03 09:05
This kitchen’s secret sauce is a flexible, hidden, induction cooktop – and it is flexible! Lapitech, an Italian company, created a cooking system that could be fully concealed under a modern sintered stone kitchen counter! It is activated by a technological cooking mat and the innovative system features an electrothermal part developed in collaboration with the University of Padua. Lapitec Ch...
Lithium-Ion Batteries Made with Recycled Materials can Outlast Newer Counterparts
[Tech]
2021/11/03 09:04
Proving performance could boost battery manufacturers’ confidence in reused materials. Without recycling, manufacturers may run out of resources needed to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, smartphones and other devices in the decades to come.Lithium-ion batteries with recycled cathodes can outperform batteries with cathodes made from pristine materials, lasting for thousands of...
The Lopsided Music Streaming Model
[Business]
2021/11/03 09:03
Music streaming providers are known for keeping details about their royalty models close to their chest. The only notable exception in recent months was tech giant Apple, which released a statement regarding its payout model back in June. According to this document, its average per-play rate is $0.01, which means that each stream is counted as one cent towards the payout for the publisher holdi...
(PDF) 2021 The State of U.S. Crypto Report
[Investing]
2021/11/02 09:10
New data from Gemini’s survey of 3,000 investors and crypto-curious consumers in the United States demonstrates that an increasingly mainstream consumer base is engaging with cryptocurrency.Survey respondents were polled from October 19 to November 16, 2020, and included 921 self-identifying current cryptocurrency owners and 1,697 consumers who were interested in learning more about cryptocurr...
The Power of Branding 2.0
[Design]
2021/11/02 09:09
Many people do not understand the power of "branding" and this concept is something basic for any designer. Most of the time, things are better understood if you see them, so we have crossed several brandings so that people understand at once, the power of the brand and everything it transmits, with just a color, a logo, or a packaging.What's Unique?We play with the images that we all have in t...
5 Consumer Trends and Behaviors During the Coronavirus Crisis
[Consumer]
2021/11/02 09:08
Amidst the Delta variant, US consumers exhibited strong optimism and spend in July and August, driven by higher-income and younger consumers.Trend 1 : Consumer optimism and spending have remained strongHigh levels of optimism and spend through July and August, even as the Delta variant spread in the US, have been driven by higher-income and younger consumers (optimism at 57 percent and 59 perce...
(Paper) TransforMR : Pose-Aware Object Substitution for Composing Alternate MR
[Tech]
2021/11/02 09:07
Despite the advances in machine perception, semantic scene understanding is still a limiting factor in mixed reality scene composition.In this paper, we present TransforMR, a video see-through mixed reality system for mobile devices that performs 3D-pose-aware object substitution to create meaningful mixed reality scenes. In real-time and for previously unseen and unprepared real-world environm...
Gartner - Top 10 Strategic Predictions for 2022
[Business]
2021/11/02 09:06
Synthetic data, NFTs, composable business and agile development — and customer breakups — are among the top strategic predictions for 2022 and beyond.It’s time to break up with your bad customers. Organizations often try to keep customers at any cost — even when they aren’t a perfect fit. But trying to cater your product for the wrong audience is costly, emotionally and financially. Mounti...
