TREND REPORTS
(Patent) Here’s a Smart Pair of Noise Cancelling Headphones from Amazon
[Tech]
2016/08/04 11:33
Amazon's next noise-canceling headphones could turn off when someone yells your name. The online sales giant just patented designs for the first headphone that can save lives.Amazon might be coming out with a noise-canceling headphone that automatically turns off when someone yells your name.Here in New York City, noise-canceling headphones are as important as comfortable walking shoes. I throw...
Nike Gives Up on Golf Equipment
[Business]
2016/08/04 11:33
Nike Inc., the world’s largest maker of sporting goods, will stop selling golf equipment, striking another blow to a pastime hurt by slowing participation rates in recent years.The company will shift away from the golf clubs, balls and bags most notably championed by Tiger Woods, but it will continue selling footwear and apparel for the sport, according to a statement Wednesday. Sales at the N...
Satisfying Consumers' Individualized Preferences Throughout the Store
[Consumer]
2016/08/04 11:33
In the U.S., we know what we like, and usually we’re willing to pay for it. This drive to personalize to suit our lifestyles—to save time, live better and healthier, or indulge—extends to the food we buy in the grocery store. We can purchase products free of gluten or chock full of it, products fortified and labeled with the nutrients, or flavors of our choosing. Craving mocha-flavored chips...
(Infographic) The Most Active Cybersecurity Investors
[Investing]
2016/08/04 11:33
NEA, Intel Capital, and Accel are top VCs in cybersecurity. A16Z has backed the most cybersecurity unicorns since 2012, with four.Cybersecurity is one of the hottest tech sectors of recent years — with explosive growth in deals and dollars since 2012 that peaked last year, and cooled off slightly in Q1’16 and Q2’16.Looking at the current run-rate funding to these companies will surpass $3B a...
Peer-to-Peer Delivery Service Brings Unique Items Right to The Door - Grabr
[Business]
2016/08/04 11:32
Grabr piggybacks existing journeys to deliver almost any item, anywhere.From hospitality to private transport, peer-to-peer solutions have cut established providers out of the market across a range of industries. Airbnb and Uber are just the headliners; elsewhere we’ve seen P2P lending through Bitcoin, and startups enabling travelers to exchange chats in their native language for bed and board...
“Surprise Travel” Companies Create Personalized Mystery Trips
[Business]
2016/08/04 11:32
In a culture in which choice overload can complicate everything from what to watch to who to date, travel companies are betting on the fact that fewer decisions will lead to happier tourists. Surprise travel programs are proliferating as a result, as more startups and services seek out consumers willing to relinquish control in favor of embarking into the unknown. PACK UP + GOTravel startup Pac...
(Video) Blink Controlled Camera Provides Recipe for Awkward Moments - blincam
[Product]
2016/08/04 11:32
No, she's not into you - she's just taking a photo. As we move to document every single waking minute of our lives, there's a real risk of missing the perfect shot of that dog/latte/kid/sunset in the time it takes to reach our phones. Blincam is designed to remove that awkward fumbling from mobile photography, instead allowing users to capture photos by winking or blinking.Based in Tokyo, the c...
Germophobes : Elevated Titanium Silverware Will Keep Your Radar Quiet
[Design]
2016/08/04 11:32
Untouctable is a set of titanium silverware that are engineered with precision by distributing the weight to the back of the silverware. This keeps the front-end of the silverware elevated away from contaminated surfaces. If you’ve gotten to the point where you worry about what surfaces your utensils touch, as you’re eating, you may have a germophobia problem. But it looks like instead of mak...
(PDF) Deep Learning Algorithm Paints Smooth-Moving Works of Art
[Tech]
2016/08/03 10:57
A team at Freiburg University has developed a neural network that takes an art style from an image or painting and applies it smoothly over an entire video.Last year, Google unleashed its Deep Dream Generator on the world, and a wave of images filled with bright lines, eyeballs and creepy dog heads flooded the internet. Now a team at the University of Freiburg in Germany has given neural networ...
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