TREND REPORTS
Big Smartphones Were The Big Winners This Holiday Season
[Consumer]
2017/01/04 12:35
Big, tablet-sized smartphones — or "phablets" — are continuing to eat into the medium-sized smartphone market, proving there's huge demand for larger-screen phones. According to the mobile analytics firm Flurry, phablets (with screens measuring between 5 and 6.9 inches) like the iPhone Plus saw the biggest increase in activations during the week between December 19 and December 25.That jump l...
"Portraits - Gazing" Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2016
[Design]
2017/01/04 12:35
A great week for Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore, who won 4 Lions for their Thai Health Promotion Foundation campaign 'Portrait'.In Outdoor, One Gold campaign was awarded in Public Service, and one Gold campaign in Art Direction. The work also picked up a Silver Campaign in Photography.In Print & Publishing the work was awarded Bronze campaign. Publicis Communications Singapore CEO Lou de l...
(Video) Lighted Zebra Crossing is Lighting the Way to Safer Streets
[Design]
2017/01/04 12:35
Pedestrians, the most vulnerable users of road space, will now be more visible to drivers in the Netherlands with the inauguration of a new luminous pedestrian crossing this past November in Brummen, west of Amsterdam.Designed by the Dutch firm Lighted Zebra Crossing, and installed free of charge for the municipality, this crossing makes pedestrians more visible at night or during bad weather....
(PDF) MIT Study Says 3,000 Ride-Sharing Cars Could Replace Every Cab in New York City
[Tech]
2017/01/04 12:35
All 13,000 taxis in New York City could be replaced by a fleet of 3,000 ride-sharing cars if used exclusively for carpooling, according to research published today by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Traffic is not just a nuisance for drivers: it’s also a public-health hazard and bad news for the economy.Transportation studies put the annual cost of conge...
(Video) Tiny Activity Tracker Gets Into The Ring - Motiv Ring
[Product]
2017/01/04 12:34
Motiv Ring tracks activity, sleep and heart rate.A major shortcoming of fitness trackers is that they aren't always that fashionable. One startup is addressing the problem by making what is probably the smallest full-featured activity tracker we've seen yet. The Motiv Ring is exactly what it sounds like, a device to track your sleep, heart rate, steps and activities, all wrapped right around yo...
Twisting Time with The Award-Winning Qlocktwo Clock
[Product]
2017/01/04 12:34
It’s a funny old thing, time. It can fly when you’re having fun; and drag when you’re not. We might think it’s universal, but it can mean different things to different people. For some, it’s an entirely rigid concept; for others, a loose guideline by which to plan your day. And how you perceive it can be a mark of either your culture or your character. “I’ll meet you at 6pm” probably me...
(PDF) Comsocre - The Future of Retail Is Mobile
[Business]
2017/01/03 13:54
How Mobile Marketing Dynamics Are Shaping the Future of Retail.comScore in Journal of Advertising Research on How Mobile Marketing Dynamics Are Shaping the Future of RetailWith one out of every six discretionary retail dollars transacted online, digital should be a critical part of any retailer’s omnichannel strategy. What is less obvious is identifying digital’s influence beyond that one out...
Luxury Apartment Boom Looks Set to Fizzle in 2017
[Investing]
2017/01/03 13:54
Building glut outstrips demand, likely forcing landlords to slash rents, Rents are declining in cities across the U.S., and the sluggishness is expected to spread to market such as Nashville, Tenn., where Terra House is located. Landlords of upscale properties across the U.S. are bracing for rough conditions in 2017 that will likely force them to slash rents and offer deep concessions as a glut...
5 Deep Learning Startups to Follow in 2017
[Business]
2017/01/03 13:54
If artificial intelligence (AI) hadn’t hit the mainstream before, it did this year. Google chief executive Sundar Pichai came through with the best sound bite, saying that the world is going from being “mobile-first” to “AI-first.”Apple squished AI into the iPhone, and Google stuck it in the Pixel. Facebook brought it to the News Feed, and Microsoft put it in Word. Samsung bought AI startu...
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