TREND REPORTS
Bra Masks are a Thing Now
[Product]
2020/04/23 09:08
A slew of fashion brands have pivoted their manufacturing to meet demand for fabric masks, which can help prevent the spread of COVID-19. But one Japanese brand has adapted apparel that rarely sees the light of day under normal circumstances—and may have unwittingly brought back an ’80s trend in the process: underwear as outerwear.Atsumi Fashion, an intimate apparel company in Toyama, Japan,...
Brands Owned by Johnson & Johnson
[Business]
2020/04/23 09:07
What does Johnson & Johnson own? Does Johnson & Johnson own Aveeno, Tylenol, Nicorette, Band-Aid, or Pepcid? What about the brand that produced the medical device in your knee or the prescription drug you’re taking? Chances are good that if you’ve gone to a drugstore in America, your eyes have landed on a few iconic Johnson & Johnson brands. There are more than 250 Johnson & J...
(Video) Roombot Swarm Creates On-Demand Mobile Furniture
[Tech]
2020/04/23 09:06
All the furniture you’ll ever need is a swarm of modular robots.A rendering shows how swarms of Roombots would be able to assemble tables and other pieces of furniture.For the last decade-ish, EPFL’s Roombots have been modularizing their way towards becoming the only piece of furniture you’ll ever need. These little squarish roundish robotics modules, which can move around and latch onto eac...
Consumers Are Spending Less on Clothes and More on Food, Health Products
[Consumer]
2020/04/23 09:05
US consumers are shopping online more as they continue to avoid brick-and-mortar. According to a recent eMarketer study conducted by Bizrate Insights, health, food and beverage purchases made digitally are seeing an uptick. Apparel, not so much.Which Product Categories Have US Digital Buyers Purchased Digitally in the Past Month? (% of respondents, Feb & April 2020)In April 2020, 52% of US...
Blast Off Into a Good Hair Day with This Conceptual Hair Dryer - Spaceship
[Design]
2020/04/23 09:04
Hair dryers are not the most eye-catching personal item (Dyson users, please fasten your seatbelts for now) and Korean designer, Hyoyeong Kim, wanted to give it a personality and a story. Something that made the humble hair dryer into an exciting gadget and being in quarantine, everyday objects is where we find our routine (and maybe happiness!). She turned the hair dryer into a spaceship and w...
(Infographic) How Oil Prices Went Subzero : Explaining the COVID-19 Oil Crash
[Investing]
2020/04/23 09:03
How is that possible? And how does it tie into the COVID-19 oil price crash in general?The Great Lockdown continues to turn markets on their head. Last week, we dug into the unprecedented number of initial jobless claims coming out of the United States, which topped 22 million in a period of four weeks.It’s just days later, and we already have our next market abnormality: this time, traders we...
(PDF) Netflix's Earning Report - Blows Away New Subscriber Expectations
[Investing]
2020/04/22 09:10
Netflix reported its Q1 2020 earnings after the bell on Tuesday. The company showed a huge uptick in new subscribers, which it attributed to people staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.Netflix delivered a big jump in subscribers, but the stock bounced around in immediate reaction to the earnings release. It was initially up 10% before settling to less than a 1% gain in after-hours tr...
(Video) Machine Learning Could Check If You’re Social Distancing Properly at Work
[Tech]
2020/04/22 09:09
Andrew Ng’s startup Landing AI has created a new workplace monitoring tool that issues an alert when anyone is less than the desired distance from a colleague.Six feet apart: On Thursday, the startup released a blog post with a new demo video showing off a new social distancing detector. On the left is a feed of people walking around on the street. On the right, a bird’s-eye diagram represent...
Deloitte - The New CIO : Business-Savvy Technologist
[Business]
2020/04/22 09:08
IT’s role in the organization is changing rapidly—and CEOs are embracing the change.CEOs not only trust technology leaders to be a strategic business partner and to drive organizational change through technology—they are clamoring for tech executives to do so. The opportunities for forward-looking tech executives are vast, as are the perils for those who don’t answer the call to be agents...
