TREND REPORTS
The Brands Americans Can’t Live Without
[Consumer]
2019/02/19 10:50
Some brands have loyal customers. Others have those who claim their lives would be over if they had to live without them. In the 2019 edition of the Brand Intimacy Study by marketing agency MBLM, Apple and Google were the two companies tied for having most U.S. customers convinced their products were essential for survival. 38 percent of Apple and Google users said they couldn’t live without t...
Atomo has Invented the World's First Beanless Coffee
[Product]
2019/02/19 10:50
Atomo Coffee doesn’t actually have any coffee in it, but it might be the future of coffee.Climate change is threatening your favorite coffee. As heat, drought, and increasing pests start to limit where coffee beans can grow, the industry is struggling to adapt–but one startup is attempting to tackle the problem by reverse engineering a cup of coffee that can be made without coffee beans.Farme...
(PDF) Which Songs Stick in Your Mind ?
[Consumer]
2019/02/19 10:49
Millennials remember the newest hit songs best, but the late 20th century struck a chord.THE CLASH, a British punk band, declared in 1979 that “phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust”. Four decades later, a team of psychologists at New York University has found that the Fab Four are alive and well in the minds of millennials. The psychologists wanted to investigate how young people’s “colle...
(Video) Holoride Creates Carsickness-Battling VR Experience for the Self-Driving Cars
[Product]
2019/02/19 10:49
German start-up Holoride has designed a virtual-reality experience for the backseats of taxis, for passengers in autonomous vehicles or for kids on long car trips.Holoride's games and visualisations provide entertainment that's specifically tailored to passengers, incorporating the car's real-time movements, such as acceleration and steering.The resulting experiences are not only immersive, the...
Samsung Quits Making New Blu-ray Players
[Business]
2019/02/19 10:49
The beginning of the end for physical discs ?Slowly but surely, spinning discs are dying out, and Samsung just put another nail in their coffin. The company told Forbes that it’s done producing new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray players — and CNET was able to confirm that Samsung is halting production on at least some of its 1080p Blu-ray players as well.“Samsung will no longer introduce new Blu-ray or...
Bill Gates-Backed Vicarious Surgical Adds a VR Twist to Robots in the Operating Room
[Investing]
2019/02/19 10:49
In an operating room in rural Idaho, doctors prep a patient for surgery. They make a tiny, thumb-sized incision into the patient and insert a small robot while across the country a surgeon puts on a virtual reality headset, grabs their controllers and prepares to operate.While this scene may seem like science fiction now, a Charlestown, Mass.-based startup called Vicarious Surgical is developin...
(Infographic) Meet Generation Z : The Newest Member to the Workforce
[Consumer]
2019/02/19 10:48
Every generation approaches the workplace differently. While talk over the last decade has largely focused on understanding the work habits and attitudes of Millennials, it’s already time for a new generation to enter the fold.Generation Z, the group born after the Millennials, is entering their early adult years and starting their young careers. What makes them different, and how will they ap...
(Patent) Amazon Patents The Rekognition Tech That Could Link You To Your Identity And Job
[Tech]
2019/02/18 10:17
The Rekognition technology could one day scan your face, identify who you are, use visual cues to figure out the kind of work you do, and potentially track you as you move around.Amazon has filed a patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for technology that could one day scan your face and identify who you are, use visual cues to figure out the kind of work you do, and potent...
(PDF) BCG - Get Ready for the Chinese Internet’s Next Chapter
[Business]
2019/02/18 10:17
Now that China’s internet giants have performed a digital makeover on fundamental aspects of Chinese consumers’ daily lives, they have set their sights on the industrial internet. They are delving into vertical and B2B markets, developing everything from product design and manufacturing to supply chain and logistics. Their efforts extend to nurturing the digital platforms that are poised to t...
