Fitness customers’ habits have evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering fitness-industry providers the opportunity to reexamine their value propositions and target specific segments.Fitness is a “Yes, and” industry. While other goods and services compete intensely for a finite number of consumer purchases, fitness consumers continue to use a widening array of services, tools, and solut...

South Korea is the third-largest market for golf in the world, behind only the United States and Japan. “White night” golf is a nocturnal sports phenomenon that reflects the still surging popularity of the sport and the lengths some will go in order to nab a tee time.City lights shimmer in the distance. Shadows splay in every direction on glowing green grass. It’s close to midnight, the moon...

Media consumption spiked in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak as Americans actively sought information and entertainment while at home. Whether this changed over the course of 2020 remains unclear, however.To dive deeper into the issue, this infographic from the Knight Foundation explores each generation’s shifts in media consumption habits as the pandemic wore on.Further below, we’ll a...

Tractable, which works with automotive insurance companies to let users take and submit photos of damaged cars that are then “read” to make appraisals, has raised $60 million, a Series D that values Tractable at $1 billion, the company said.As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals...

Investing today for tomorrow’s competitive advantage.As demand for more powerful networking and digital capabilities grows, 5G edge computing technologies can offer organizations the capabilities needed to unleash the next phases of innovation, efficiency, and agility. But organizations should act now to reap the benefits.For C-suite leaders (CXOs), historic possibilities driven by digital inn...

Sipping water through an L-shaped ‘suction and swallow tool’ cured 92% of attacks, according to study.From holding your breath to having a friend shout “boo!”, there is no shortage of alleged cures for hiccups. Now scientists say they have found a better solution: a drinking straw device.When you get hiccups – or singultus as they are known in medicine – the diaphragm and intercostal musc...

This week British bicycle retailer Halfords warned that it expected the "global bike shortage" to continue, as the surge in demand for bikes during the pandemic has lingered into the end of 2020 and the start of 2021.The bike boom is an example of a hobby that exploded during the pandemic — and has actually had some staying power. Google searches for "bike for sale" have come down from their p...

The ‘Pad’ transforms from a simple flat wooden slab to a complete folding chair.The Pad Chair transforms from a benign wooden mat into a neat chair with a backrest! Made from multiple wooden strips joined together in a rather unique way, the Pad Chair possesses the ability to transform from a flat, 2D shape into a neat, comfortable 3D chair. I’m sure there’s a locking system in place that a...

In the Qianhaiwan district of Shenzhen, China, the winning architectural design for the city’s New City Center Landmark competition has been given to Sou Fujimoto Architects for their floating water tower. Slated for ascent in Qianhai Bay, the new tower will appear almost like a freestanding, cylindrical water fountain. Rising to 268-meters in height, Sou Fujimoto Arhcitects’s tower will feat...