TREND REPORTS
How This 24-Year-Old College Dropout Built a $5 Billion Business in Just 5 Years - Oyo
[Investing]
2018/10/01 09:31
Indian hotel chain OYO to raise $1 billion from Softbank, others. Finding clean, affordable hotels in India can be a traveler’s nightmare. Too often, what looks good on a website turns out to be a roach-infested room in a crumbling building where water has to be schlepped to the bathroom in a bucket.Ritesh Agarwal’s solution is a booking app that promises truth in advertising and branded hote...
(Infographic) The Global Beauty Business Goes Au Naturel
[Business]
2018/10/01 09:31
Demand for healthier ingredients has spread beyond the dinner plate. Interest in cosmetics and skincare products claiming to be “clean” and “natural” has grown in the past two years, with no regulation around either term. “Natural” personal care and beauty products generated more than $1.5 billion in U.S. sales in 2017, according to Nielsen. And the trend isn’t slowing down. A new report...
A Mixed Reality Headset for Youngsters - Holo Cap
[Design]
2018/10/01 09:30
The market for Mixed Reality is vastly expanding, with technology advancing at a breath-taking pace, and with new, and interesting implementations being thought of each day it’s certainly an exciting field! However, current VR/AR headsets are not best suited to children, as their bulky and heavy design doesn’t sit comfortably on their, typically smaller, heads.Holo Cap may just be a solution...
Monthly Trend Report - October. 2018 Edition
[Trendbird]
2018/10/01 07:38
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(PDF) IKEA - Self-Driving Cars and the Future of Urban Mobility
[Business]
2018/09/26 09:10
Forget what you know about sleek self-driving cars. In the hands of IKEA’s think tank, autonomous vehicles look like cheerful, bright-colored living rooms on wheels.With fully autonomous vehicles expected to hit the road as early as 2022, IKEA sees a way into the potential trillion-dollar sector by recasting self-driving units as rooms instead of passenger cars. “We don’t have ambitions of m...
Israel’s Trigo Vision Wants To Bring The Amazon Go Shopping Experience To All Retail Stores
[Tech]
2018/09/26 09:09
Amazon Go, the first automated supermarket to disrupt the retail industry, just announced its fourth cashier-free location in Chicago this week. It’s the first location outside of the e-commerce giant’s hometown of Seattle — where three other stores have already been set up — and it’s one of six expected to open this year in cities like New York and San Francisco.Amazon’s groundbreaking c...
The Global Wearables Market Is All About the Wrist
[Business]
2018/09/26 09:08
In the wake of the smartphone and tablet boom, many experts predicted wearable devices to be the next big thing in consumer technology. And to a certain degree they were right: global smartwatch shipments more than tripled since 2015 and fitness tracking armbands are as popular as they are affordable. However, speaking of a wearables boom in general seems like a stretch when considering the num...
Future Robo-Taxis Could Charge Themselves and Help Balance The Electric Grid
[Tech]
2018/09/26 09:07
Wireless startup WiTricity wants cars to power up without human help and feed utilities energy during peak demand.Electric robo-taxis are a real possibility. Trends in transportation, energy, and demographics indicate that future vehicles will operate autonomously, run on electricity rather than fossil fuels, and be shared instead of privately owned.But before everyone can carpool in self-drivi...
American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up
[Consumer]
2018/09/26 09:06
Home cooking would be making a comeback if it ever really went away.. Per-person restaurant visits dropped to 28-year low in 2018. Chick-fil-A is trying enchilada kits to capitalize on trend.Restaurants are getting dinged by the convenience of Netflix, the advent of pre-made meals, the spread of online grocery delivery, plus crushing student debt and a focus on healthy eating. Eighty-two percen...
