TREND REPORTS
(PDF) BCG - Shaping the Future of Construction
[Business]
2016/05/08 11:10
The engineering and construction (E&C) industry has been a relatively conservative one, slow to adopt innovative materials, technologies, and processes—so much so that labor productivity in the US has actually fallen during the last 40 years. Such torpor is worrying, given the central role that buildings and infrastructure assets play in daily life and the impact that the industry has on o...
(Video) SkinTrack - Finger Tracking Tech Turns Your Arm Into a Touchpad
[Tech]
2016/05/08 11:09
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Claim Touchscreen-like Accuracy. Using the Body as an Electrical Waveguide for Continuous Finger Tracking on the SkinSmartwatches may be handy, but their tiny touchscreens can easily be obscured by your fingers as you're using them on the device. As a result, we've seen various attempts to move the control surface off of the screen. One of the latest, Carnegie Mellon...
The On-Demand Crash : Funding Drops For Second-Consecutive Quarter
[Investing]
2016/05/08 11:08
Funding to on-demand companies continues to collapse, though there is a bright spot: deals ticked back up in Q1'16.Excitement around on-demand startups rose to a fever pitch in 2015, as investors bought into the promise of disrupting established players in food delivery, home cleaning, transportation, and many other fields. However, the on-demand space has come under fire recently, with investo...
Tesla's “Bioweapon Defense Mode” Has a Ludicrous Name But is a Wonderful Idea
[Tech]
2016/05/08 11:07
Elon Musk has a penchant for silly names, hence Ludicrous Mode and now Bioweapon Defense Mode as the name for the air purification system on the Tesla’s Models S and X. It’s a HEPA (High-efficiency particulate arrestance) filter system that removes fine PM2.5 (particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter) from the air. These particles, a thirtieth the diameter of a human hair, get...
Is the Tech Bubble Popping ? Ping Pong Offers an Answer
[Investing]
2016/05/08 11:06
Sales of tables rise and fall with the startups that love them. Ping-pong playing gets intense at Pivotal’s San Francisco office, so the software company installed netting to catch errant balls.Twitter’s gloomy quarterly report last week unsettled investors. They might have anticipated trouble more than a year ago had they noticed one key indicator.Until late 2014, Twitter was regularly order...
Designer Fund Launches with $20M to Invest in Startups with Taste
[Investing]
2016/05/08 11:05
For the past five years, Enrique Allen and Ben Blumenfeld have led a group of angel investors called the Designer Fund on a mission: fund tech startups that have a strong design focus and a meaningful impact.Until today, it was a loosely knit group with no formal structure, but now it’s become an investment firm with $20 million to put into early-stage startups.The fund will continue to make s...
Pre-Painted Toenail Art Stockings Hailed as New Street Fashion Trend
[Design]
2016/05/08 11:04
One of the things we enjoy doing at Japan Trends is not only observing actual news and trends, but also how trends are reported and generated by the media, both Japanese and international.What is the making of a “trend”? Well, it’s partly when everyone starts talking about something, creating buzz that by definition then turns the “something” into a self-generated trend.A few years ago the...
Hive Drone Skyscraper – Central Control Station for Drones
[Design]
2016/05/08 11:03
Drone technology has become rapidly popular nowadays, it is adopted by many large corporations for different kind of things, from fast delivery, aerial mapping, to filmmaking. Hive is a conceptual project about unique infrastructure to meet emerging demand for incorporating advanced Drone technology into daily life in New York City.These small flying robots might be an ordinary part of future e...
(Infographic) The World's 50 Richest Billionaires and Where They Live
[Investing]
2016/05/03 11:10
Here, The Money Project, a collaboration between Visual Capitalist and Texas Precious Metals, has visualised the world's wealthiest people — from Warren Buffet to Mark Zuckerberg. These are the richest billionaires in the world – entrepreneurs, inventors, thinkers, heirs and heiresses. They’re the people who’ve brought us Facebook, Microsoft, fashion and food. Or inherited vast empires.Name...
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