TREND REPORTS
(Infographic) Millennials' Surprising Game Plan for Black Friday Shopping
[Consumer]
2015/11/17 10:59
Ninety-three percent of millennials plan on shopping on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, marketers and retailers are gearing up for the year's biggest shopping onslaught: Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Per usual, millennials are the most coveted demo. When product-discovery platform Influenster surveyed 6,000 millennials to get insights into their plans th...
(PDF) Bank of England Chief Economist on Robots Taking Your Job
[Business]
2015/11/16 11:23
In the future, Uber or Google will take you to work in an autonomously-driven car. Soylent (or something like it) will replace eating meals with other people. A gigantic robot arm will eliminate the workers in an Amazon warehouse.This is the extremist position, of course; Soylent tastes terrible.But Andy Haldane, chief economist of the Bank of England (the United Kingdom’s central bank), yeste...
SleepCogni Uses Light, Sound and Touch to Help You Get a Solid Night's Rest
[Product]
2015/11/16 11:22
The electrostatic speakers emit music and landscapes of differing tempo, timbre and pitch also intended to bring down the user's heart rate.A solid night's sleep isn't always achievable for everyone – the estimated 50 to 70 million American adults with sleep disorder will vouch for that. And research has suggested that our increasing tendency to stare into LED screens isn't helping our cause,...
(PDF) BCG - Bringing Digital Disruption to Building Materials
[Business]
2015/11/16 11:22
A building contractor we’ll call Bob meets with a client to discuss ideas for a bathroom renovation. Rather than visiting a distributor’s showroom, Bob uses his iPad to display a 3-D visualization of the client’s bathroom. Bob and the client experiment with options for the colors of tiles, fittings, and sanitary ceramics. Bob uses a smartphone app provided by the producer of these materials...
(M&A) Fossil Buys Fitness Tracker Maker Misfit to Grow its Wearable Family
[Investing]
2015/11/16 11:22
Fossil, the popular watch maker, has a new family member. For $260 million (about £170m, AU$364m), Misfit will join up under the Fossil Group, though it will keep making its own wearables."We will continue to develop activity trackers under the Misfit brand and Fossil Group will scale Misfit technology across Fossil, Skagen and a targeted portion of its portfolio of 16 brands in 2016," a Misfi...
(Video) World’s First Floating Wind Farm to be Built Off Scottish Coast - Hywind
[Tech]
2015/11/16 11:22
The Hywind Scotland pilot park will be the world's first wind farm with five wind turbines generating six megawatts each.In a deal between the Scottish government and Norwegian oil company Statoil, five wind turbines with a capacity of six megawatts each will be set on floating structures some 15 miles (25 km) off the northeast coast of Scotland near Peterhead. The Hywind pilot park, as it's na...
China's 2 Child Policy Should Add 17 Million Babies from Now to 2020 and a 0.5% Annual GDP Boost
[Investing]
2015/11/16 11:22
China expects the new two child policy will result in an extra 17 million babies born within the next five years – more than three million more each year than at present. In some of those years, there are expected to be more than 20 million births.Ninety million of the 140 million child-bearing age women who have been married and given birth to a child would now be allowed to have a second.Pri...
The World’s “Best Razor” Costs $300 - OneBlade
[Product]
2015/11/16 11:22
The OneBlade Razor is made from German stainless steel, PVD coated for corrosion resistance, hand-polished, Teflon coated springs… heck even the blade is supposed to be some fancy Platinum-coated Japanese Feather blade. It only uses the one blade, hence the name, and is a limited edition item that’s meant to be passed down generation to generation. Replacement blades work out to about $1 each...
Medicinal Marijuana Without the High
[Product]
2015/11/16 11:21
Nancy delivers legal, CBD-containing hemp products, for those who want the benefits of cannabis without its psychoactive effects.As legislations soften, cannabis is becoming more marketable across the US. Following from our recent coverage of an organic marijuana subscription package, Nancy is offering subscription services with a range of cannabis-derived products aimed at those who use it for...
