Robo-taxis promise affordable mobility. But with widely varying service costs across use cases and geography, providers must address operational and service issues to realize that promise.As autonomous vehicle services roll out and scale, the pace and nature of that transition have significant implications across the mobility value chain. Mobility participants that have already experienced disr...

Hey Tea received a $500 million cash injection last summer from investors like Tencent.2022 begins with uncertainty in the air for luxury brands hoping to develop comprehensive marketing plans in China.Tea chains like Hey Tea and Nayuki Tea offer examples of reaching maximum consumers via lower-key marketing methods.Clever collaborations, real-life spokespeople, and thought-out nostalgia are ju...

From cartoon apes to video clips, sales of NFTs reached some $25 billion in 2021 as the speculative crypto asset exploded in popularity, data from market tracker DappRadar shows, although there were signs of growth slowing towards the end of the year.Prices of some non-fungible tokens, crypto assets representing a digital item such as an image, video, or even land in virtual worlds, rose so fas...

Researchers at the university of british columbia (UBC) in canada have created a battery that works even when stretched to twice its length or after being washed. Developed by dr. ngoc tan nguyen and his colleagues bahar iranpour, evan cheng and dr. john madden, the flexible, washable battery could revolutionize wearable devices.Dr. ngoc tan nguyen explains,‘wearable electronics are a big mark...

It's ironic that even though many people are starving, a great deal of food gets discarded because it spoils before it can be eaten. A new natural-source packaging material could help, by making foods last longer – plus it's biodegradable.GLOBAL FUNDING JUMPS 111% YOY TO SHATTER PREVIOUS RECORDSee who’s leading the explosion in global venture funding, from the startups seeing the biggest deal...

Space the size of a shed that can fly in the air like a big quadcopter, tread through water like a speed boat, and commute on road like other lounge car concepts we’ve seen. This is done via the docking mobility modules which give the user freedom to use the Volvo Space as the need arises!Practical mobility that does more than just take one from destination A to B is the way for the future. Th...

Video games vs. the box office.The chart above gives some context on just how big the video game biz is. Last year the video game industry was pegged at somewhere around $180bn by Newzoo. That's roughly ten times what the global movie industry brought in at the box office last year. Ten times. Admittedly last year the movie industry was still dealing with a pandemic hangover, but even in its be...

It's ironic that even though many people are starving, a great deal of food gets discarded because it spoils before it can be eaten. A new natural-source packaging material could help, by making foods last longer – plus it's biodegradable.Developed by scientists at Harvard University and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the material takes the form of a transparent film.Made...

글로벌 트렌드 리서치 서비스 트렌드버드(Trendbird)가 올해의 핵심적인 기술, 비즈니스 동향을 예측한 '2022 트렌드 전망 보고서(TRENDBIRD - Annual Trend Report 2022)'를 발간했다.올해 보고서에서는 지난해 글로벌 비즈니스의 전 영역에서 관측된 주요 흐름과 유망한 성장산업, 융합 아이템을 망라하고 이를 기반으로 올해와 향후 2~3년간 주목받을 비즈니스 이슈와 전망을 관련 사례와 함께 정리했다.보고서는 총 12권으...