TREND REPORTS
Millennials Mostly Watch TV After It’s Aired
[Consumer]
2017/09/11 17:07
Older people still watch more live TV, but that’s changing.Millennials don’t watch live TV most of the time. People aged 18-34 spend 55 percent of their video-watching time consuming content after it has already aired on live TV, according to a new study from the Consumer Technology Association. Only 45 percent of that time is spent with live television.Of the video millennials do watch, 35 p...
Future of Retail ? Nike’s Cool New Toy Lets You Design and Print Custom Sneakers in an Hour
[Business]
2017/09/11 17:07
W+K's The Lodge experiments with AR, object tracking and projection.Nike and Wieden + Kennedy’s The Lodge have unveiled what they believe is a glimpse into the future of retail with an experience in New York City that lets visitors design their own one-of-a-kind sneakers, which are ready to wear in less than 90 minutes.The Nike Makers’ Experience (it is invite-only at the moment) is housed at...
The Cola in Skin Colors - Ali Cola
[Design]
2017/09/11 11:20
ALI COLA celebrates diversity with a soda that comes in six different 'skin' colors.The concept for ALI COLA started back in 2012, when german politician thilo sarrazin published some controversial comments about human intelligence being directly influenced by genetic characteristics. in protest of this idea, and in celebration of ethnic diversity, hamburg-based entrepreneur aydin umutlu develo...
(PDF) 2017 Cruise Industry Outlook : Where Cruise Ship Passengers Are From & Where They Go
[Consumer]
2017/09/10 10:10
Global cruise travel is continuing to grow at a steady pace around the world. The Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) predicts that over the course of this year 25.8 million passengers will board cruise ships for ocean bound vacations, 1.1 million more than last year. By far the most passengers hail from the United States, which makes it less astounding that most cruise capacity is all...
We’re Going to Need More Lithium
[Business]
2017/09/10 10:09
There’s plenty in the ground to meet the needs of an electric car future, but not enough mines.[The Tesla Model S includes more than 7,000 individual batteries, which are similar in size to the AA batteries used in TV remotes.]Starting about two years ago, fears of a lithium shortage almost tripled prices for the metal, to more than $20,000 a ton, in just 10 months. The cause was a spike in th...
(PDF) A Completely New Type of Camera Can Actually See Through The Human Body
[Tech]
2017/09/10 10:08
Medical techniques for looking inside our bodies have come a long way, but in the future it looks like doctors may be able to see absolutely everything going on under our skin.Researchers have invented a new kind of camera that can actually see through structures inside the human body, detecting light sources behind as much as 20 centimetres (7.9 inches) of bodily tissue.The current prototype,...
LiDAR Maker Innoviz Raises $65M from Delphi, Magna and More
[Investing]
2017/09/10 10:07
Innoviz, a company making LiDAR sensors to support the development and deployment of autonomous driving, has raised a new $65 million in Series B funding, from strategic partners and leading auto industry suppliers Delphi Automotive and Magna International, along with other investors. The vote of confidence from Magna and Delphi is especially noteworthy, however, because both stand ready to sup...
(Video) Futuristic Jaguar Land Rover Future-Type Concept Car for The Year of 2040
[Design]
2017/09/10 10:06
Jaguar’s future combines autonomy with a driver-based approach to give you the Jaguar Future-Type. Their vision, much like their contemporaries, is of a future where cars are shared (like MINI’s Vision Next 100)… except in Jaguar’s iteration of the future your key to the car is a personalized steering wheel. Jaguar says that the steering wheel (code-named Sayer after Malcolm Sayer, the desi...
(Video) Alipay Launches 'Smile to Pay' in China
[Business]
2017/09/10 10:05
KFC's K Pro fast food restaurant allows customers to purchase their menu items with a facial recognition kiosk.Too busy to take cash out of your wallet? Don’t worry, KFC’s healthy store called K Pro in China allows customers to purchase items by using facial recognition software called Smile to Pay. The technology was developed by Chinese technology company, Ant Financial.The payment feature...
