TREND REPORTS
Brands Launch Wellness and Beauty Focused Supplements
[Product]
2020/02/11 10:08
The global beauty supplements segment was valued at $2,451.2 million in 2018, and is expected to grow to $3,721.6 million by 2027, leaving the vertical ripe for continued growth and future offerings.As young consumers seek new avenues to augment their health—and with it, improve the quality and longevity of their life—brands in the wellness space and outside of it are launching supplements to...
(PDF) Retail Trends Playbook 2020 : Creating A Data-Driven, Intelligent Retail Model
[Business]
2020/02/11 10:07
Technology within the retail space has primarily served to ensure transactional moments were quick and efficient.Now, retailers have an unprecedented opportunity to go a step further and leverage data-driven and digital technologies to elevate the customer experience in more meaningful ways. From creating new products to delivering specialized campaigns, machine learning, analytics and other te...
Wearable Patch Uses Machine Learning to Detect Sleep Apnea
[Tech]
2020/02/11 10:06
A new device could make it easier to monitor sleep apnea at home. A white patch is attached to the center of a person's bare chest.[This prototype patch by Onera Health relies on machine learning and bioimpedence measurements to detect sleep apnea.]Getting screened for sleep apnea often means spending a night in a special clinic hooked up to sensors that measure your brain activity, eye movemen...
(Video) Israeli Startup’s AR Tech Reinvents The Microscope for Pathologists - Augmentiq
[Tech]
2020/02/11 10:05
Augmentiqs sought to revolutionize the digital pathology industry.For thousands of years, microscopes have allowed scientists, doctors, and lab professionals to view enlarged images of small objects, cells, bacteria, and other agents that cannot be seen by the naked eye, for the purpose of analysis and examination. Since the invention of the first microscope around 1590, these devices have come...
The Breath, The Made in Italy Fabric That Captures Pollution
[Business]
2020/02/11 10:04
Particulates, smog and industrial emissions. Cooking smells, cooking gas, cleansing agents, chemical residues of soaps and perfumes. Not to mention dust and smoke. All of these float in the air we unsuspectingly breathe at home, in the office or in the street. A pollutants cocktail that takes your breath away. This is why Anemotech, an Italian startup founded in 2014 in Casei Gerola, in the pro...
A Mew Implant for Blind People Jacks Directly Into the Brain
[Tech]
2020/02/11 10:03
Researchers have successfully bypassed the eyes with a brain implant that allows rudimentary vision.“Allí,” says Bernardeta Gómez in her native Spanish, pointing to a large black line running across a white sheet of cardboard propped at arm’s length in front of her. “There.”It isn’t exactly an impressive feat for a 57-year-old woman—except that Gómez is blind. And she’s been that way...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Industry’s Fast-Mover Advantage : Enterprise Value from Digital Factories
[Business]
2020/02/10 09:10
Manufacturing’s leaders in applying Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) digital technologies are building on their head start—generating even more value across the entire enterprise.The latest findings from the Global Lighthouse Network, an ongoing research project by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with McKinsey, confirm the transformative power of innovative manufacturing technolog...
(Patent) Apple Invents a Possible Next-Gen Apple Watch Digital Crown
[Tech]
2020/02/10 09:09
The US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals another Apple engineering team is working on making the Digital Crown more relevant by adding Touch ID to the mechanism. A future Apple Watch, according to Apple, may include a housing defining a side surface of the electronic watch, a transparent cover coupled to the housing and defining a front surface...
Tesla Is a Stock-Picking Nightmare. Or Is It a Dream ?
[Investing]
2020/02/10 09:08
The automaker violates a tried-and-true investing playbook. Perhaps the game has changed.Nir Kaissar is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering the markets. He is the founder of Unison Advisors, an asset management firm. He has worked as a lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and a consultant at Ernst & Young.There may be more riding on the future of Tesla Inc. than cars. The electric-vehicle m...
