TREND REPORTS
Virus Takes Aim at $1.7 Trillion Industry as Tourists Stay Home
[Business]
2020/03/09 09:06
From Macau to the Alps, hotels are emptying as the outbreak spreads.On Lake Como in northern Italy, spring normally spells the return of the tourists. The likes of George Clooney descend on waterfront villas, couples wander the cobbled streets and design fairs fill hotel rooms with well-heeled travelers. This year, because of the coronavirus, hoteliers are wondering whether the visitors will co...
(Video) Unfolding Highway Bridge Unfurls Like an Umbrella
[Tech]
2020/03/09 09:05
For more than 15 years, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wein) have been working on a different approach to bridge-building.An imaginative new approach to bridge-building was demonstrated for the first time in Austria last week, where engineers have connected the opposing sides of two rivers with a novel construction method likened to opening an umbrella. These unfolding b...
Americans Are Hoarding Face Masks
[Consumer]
2020/03/09 09:04
Americans are hoarding health supplies amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 160 Americans and killed at least 11 people. When compared to last February, the sale of health supplies has dramatically increased as Americans prepare for the worst.Sales of medical masks are up by a staggering 319 percent, according to data analyzed by Nielsen Retail Measurement Services....
Special Projects Distills Essential Smartphone Functions Into a Daily Paper Phone
[Design]
2020/03/09 09:03
London design studio Special Projects has developed an app that condenses important information such as contacts and maps onto a daily printout to help people live without their devices.The Paper Phone app lets users select appointments, tickets, to-do lists and other daily essentials from their smartphone and formats them onto a single sheet of A4.This can then be printed out and folded into a...
HBR - What Coronavirus Could Mean for the Global Economy
[Investing]
2020/03/08 09:10
Having largely ignored Covid-19 as it spread across China, global financial markets reacted strongly last week when the virus spread to Europe and the Middle East, stoking fears of a global pandemic. Since then, Covid-19 risks have been priced so aggressively across various asset classes that some fear a recession in the global economy may be a foregone conclusion.In our conversations, business...
(Video) Boston Dynamics and OTTO Handle Demo Future of Warehouse Robotics
[Tech]
2020/03/08 09:09
The demonstration showed the degree to which warehouse automation can go.Boston Dynamics and OTTO Motors have teamed up for a demonstration of the warehouse of the future. In a newly released video, a Boston Dynamics Handle robot rushes about a storage area at speed as it picks boxes and builds pallets atop an OTTO Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) platform.Looking like a robotic version of some hu...
(PDF) PwC - 2020 Global Digital IQ
[Business]
2020/03/08 09:08
Only 5% of companies are doing all it takes to get to payback from digital. To thrive, not just survive, you’ll need to navigate the maze of economic uncertainty and the breakneck pace of digital.We’ve studied thousands of digitally-transforming companies for decades through our Digital IQ research. This year, from our survey of 2,380 executives around the globe, we discovered a group of comp...
360-Degree Hologram Ads Promote New Puma Trainers
[Business]
2020/03/08 09:07
The 360-display used high-definition 3D Holoprojection technology. The athletic shoe giant tapped into growing customer interest in holograms and out-of-home advertising to build momentum for its latest trainers.PUMA recently projected a 360-degree hologram over cars in Chicago to promote its latest line of trainers. The life-like hologram was the first of its kind, according to the company.A h...
(Infographic) CB Insights - AI 100 : The Artificial Intelligence Startups Redefining Industries
[Business]
2020/03/08 09:06
The AI 100 is CB Insights' annual ranking of the 100 most promising AI startups in the world. This year’s winning companies include startups working on synthetic voice, quantum machine learning, protein modeling, and more.The CB Insights 4th annual AI 100 finalists include AI startups from 13 countries, pushing the boundaries of AI research and commercial adoption across 15 industries and a br...
