TREND REPORTS
European Brands Shift Production Toward Hand Sanitizer
[Business]
2020/04/09 09:08
In an effort to bolster the safety and well-being of both healthcare workers and the general public amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, European brands across the fashion, beauty, and alcohol sectors are pivoting their manufacturing operations to assist in the much-needed production of hand sanitizer. However, the following brands aren’t selling the product—they’re working with charitable organiza...
How are Shopping Habits in the U.S. Evolving in Response to COVID-19 ?
[Consumer]
2020/04/09 09:07
How are shopping habits in the U.S. evolving in response to COVID-19? Our latest figures show what Americans are buying, and not buying. Do your shopping trips mirror any of these trends?[neilsen]
(Video) Tyto Care Raises $50M to Grow Its Telehealth Examination and Diagnostic Platform
[Investing]
2020/04/09 09:06
With social distancing, self isolation, and remote working emerging as the standard behavioral protocol to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, this is creating new opportunities for fledgling industries and technologies to step up and show their true worth. And that includes telehealth.While the ability to delivery health care services online and through other virtual communication conduits is not ne...
Nike-backed Researchers Invent a Wearable Robot That Makes You Faster
[Tech]
2020/04/09 09:05
As workout studios close their doors amid a global pandemic, people are left with one of the cheapest and easiest ways to break a sweat: running.But just because you know you could be running, doesn’t mean you’ll actually go out and jog. That’s where a new Nike-funded research team comes in. They want to help people struggling to go the distance — and invented a wearable ankle “exoskeleton...
'Coffee Traveler' by Starbucks Coffee Japan
[Product]
2020/04/09 09:04
A convenient carrier filled with 96 fl oz of our featured brewed medium roast coffee (equivalent of twelve 8 fl oz cups)—a perfect pick-me-up for meetings, picnics or whatever occasion calls for coffee.Website : https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/873068655/hot?parent=%2Fdrinks%2Fhot-coffees%2Fcoffee-travelers[starbucks]
(Infographic) Media Consumption in the Age of COVID-19
[Consumer]
2020/04/09 09:03
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to wreak havoc across the globe, people’s time that would have otherwise been spent perusing malls or going to live events, is now being spent on the sofa.During this period of pandemic-induced social isolation, it’s no surprise that people are consuming vast amounts of media. Today’s graphics use data from a Global Web Index report to explore how people...
(Patent) Google Eyes a Patent for a Smartphone-Based Radar System for Detecting User Gestures Using Coherent Multi-Look Radar Processing
[Tech]
2020/04/08 09:10
US patent application 20200057504 discloses a smartphone-based radar system capable of detecting user gestures using coherent multi-look radar processing that includes a multi-look interferometer or a multi-look beamformer,to coherently average multiple looks of a distributed target across receive channels to generate radar data with higher gain and less noise. The illustration below depicts th...
New York Times - The Virus Changed the Way We Internet
[Consumer]
2020/04/08 09:09
Stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, with movie theaters closed and no restaurants to dine in, Americans have been spending more of their lives online.But a New York Times analysis of internet usage in the United States from SimilarWeb and Apptopia, two online data providers, reveals that our behaviors shifted, sometimes starkly, as the virus spread and pushed us to our devices for wo...
(Video) YouCam Makeup Providing Free AR Tech for Brands During COVID-19 Outbreak
[Product]
2020/04/08 09:08
An augmented reality beauty app is offering cosmetics brands free AR experiences and product listings as more people are forced to shop online.As the global coronavirus pandemic picks up speed and non-essential stores close, consumers have turned to online ordering in unprecedented numbers. As a result, augmented reality developer Perfect has seen interest grow in its AR beauty app, YouCam Make...
