TREND REPORTS
NextNav Raises $120M to Deploy Its Indoor Positioning Tech to Find People in Skyscrapers
[Investing]
2020/01/16 09:06
NextNav LLC has raised $120 million in equity and debt to commercially deploy an indoor-positioning system that can pinpoint a device’s location — including what floor it’s on — without GPS.The company has developed what it calls a Metropolitan Beacon System, which can find the location of devices like smartphones, drones, IoT products or even self-driving vehicles in indoor and urban areas...
(PDF) PwC - Predictions for 2020 : “Slowbalisation” is the New Globalisation
[Investing]
2020/01/16 09:05
Projecting what the future holds is an important exercise for businesses looking to plan ahead. Below we present a summary of some of the themes we assess will likely prevail in the global economy in 2020.Trading goods across borders will likely remain tense…: A defining feature of the global economy since at least the 1970’s has been globalisation—the bringing together of economies predomin...
Volkswagen Will Be World’s Biggest Electric Car Maker by 2030
[Business]
2020/01/16 09:04
Tesla will need to launch an entry-level vehicle if it’s going to achieve its own market-share ambitions, according to new WoodMac research.German automotive giant Volkswagen will become the largest manufacturer of EVs before 2030, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie.WoodMac expects Volkswagen to produce 14 million battery electric vehicles (BEVs) cumulatively by 2028, and climb from...
A Clean Air Barrier to Protect Kids - Brizi
[Product]
2020/01/16 09:03
Brizi can reduce pollution in the baby's breathing area by about 50% on average, and up to 80%... [+] during spikes of pollution.Every year, 570,000 children under five years old die from respiratory infections worldwide. Yosi Romano, based in the United Kingdom, came up with the idea for Brizi when his daughter was an infant in London. “While pushing her in a pram between home and the nursery...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Industry’s Fast-Mover Advantage : Enterprise Value from Digital Factories
[Business]
2020/01/15 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) Microsoft Eyes a Patent for Environmental Control via a Wearable Computing System
[Tech]
2020/01/15 09:09
US patent application 20190391544 discloses a head-mounted device (HMD) system for controlling ambient environmental conditions to affect other users wearing HMD systems. The HMD system sends commands to an environmental control system to adjust an environmental parameter of the environment to enhance the presentation of the AR image. The figures illustrate an example scenario where an ambient...
Best Beauty Tools and Gadgets in 2020 : Nuface, Foreo and More
[Product]
2020/01/15 09:08
From at-home light therapy to automated exfoliation devices, you can bring the spa to you.If you've never used something other than your hands or maybe a washcloth on your face, you may find high-tech beauty devices intimidating, especially if you're the opposite of a skincare addict. This is a common misconception: Skincare can actually be fun and gives you the feeling that you're doing the mo...
Apple AirPods and Totally Wireless Bluetooth Headset Sales Soaring
[Product]
2020/01/15 09:07
Rapidly Falling Prices Drive Unprecedented Growth for Totally Wireless Bluetooth HeadsetsStrategy Analytics in a newly published report from the Device Technologies (EDT) team, forecasts Apple AirPods sales of nearly 60 million in 2019. As a category, Totally Wireless (TWS) Bluetooth headset sales grew by 200% in 2019. The report, Global Bluetooth Headset Sales and Revenue Forecasts 2001 to 202...
(Paper) EmotionCues : Emotion-Oriented Visual Summarization of Classroom Videos
[Tech]
2020/01/15 09:06
A new software program attempts to recognize students’ emotions to aid teachers, but faces aren’t so easy to read.A professor finishes a lecture and checks his computer. A software program shows that most students lost interest about 30 minutes into the lecture—around the time he went on a tangent. The professor makes a note to stop going on tangents.The technology for this fictional classro...
