TREND REPORTS
The Gridlocked Global Economy
[Investing]
2015/09/13 11:05
IN 2009, in the middle of the financial crisis, global economic growth fell to zero. China and other emerging-market economies had added exactly as much to global GDP—1.5% in purchasing-power-parity terms—as America and the rest of the rich world had lost. Since the crisis, everyone has lowered their expectations. Global growth has flattened out to just above 3% for the last few years. And th...
The Genomic Revolution Will Break Radical Ground for Brands
[Business]
2015/09/13 11:04
Futures Director at Pearlfisher investigates what the implications of engineering ourselves will be.Today’s consumers are increasingly demanding brands that are centered on answering their individual needs and wants, strengths and weaknesses—and radical breakthroughs in science and technology are increasingly making the answering of these demands much easier and more specific.In the healthcar...
(Video) Enter The Matrix! This iPad App Lets You "See" Wi-Fi Signals
[Design]
2015/09/13 11:03
The invisible world around us pulses with radio waves, an electromagnetic tide that washes over everything. If you could see it, everything around us would ripple with information, like dropping a tab of acid after watching The Matrix.The next best thing to that? The Architecture of Radio, a new exhibition by Dutch designer Richard Vijgen that uses an augmented reality iPad app to visualize the...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The New Global Competition for Corporate Profits
[Investing]
2015/09/10 10:43
The world’s biggest corporations have been riding a three-decade wave of profit growth, market expansion, and declining costs. Yet this unprecedented run may be coming to an end. Our new McKinsey Global Institute report, Playing to win: The new global competition for corporate profits, projects that the global corporate-profit pool, which currently stands at almost 10 percent of world GDP, cou...
The Pumpkin Flavor Trend Continues to Grow
[Product]
2015/09/10 10:42
According to Nielsen data, the pumpkin flavor trend continues to grow and has become an integral part of our fall diets. Last year, 37% of U.S. consumers purchased a pumpkin-flavored product. And this means big dollars: Pumpkin products accounted for $361 million in sales in the last year alone, having grown 79% since 2011.Pumpkin pie filling still dominates the market, with $135 million of sal...
How Traditional Media Giants Are Betting On Startup Investments
[Investing]
2015/09/10 10:42
Media's future is still up in the air, and big media players like Comcast and NewsCorp. are competing to make the right bets. AOL has made the most investments.The media industry has been one of the principal sectors disrupted by tech, as digital content and social networks completely transformed the cost and distribution models underlying the media business.This ongoing phenomenon has understa...
(Video) Magnetically-Connected Snap Drone Pops Apart on Crash Landings
[Product]
2015/09/10 10:42
The Snap drone is designed to fly – and to fly apart.Children of the 1970s may recall Kenner's Smash-Up Derby set, in which two toy cars flew into pieces when they crashed into each other – the neat thing was, they could then just be snapped back together. Well, Vantage Robotics' Snap is sort of like the Smash-Up Derby of drones. The 4K camera-packin' quadcopter's main body is attached to the...
Smallest 3-D Camera Offers Brain Surgery Innovation
[Tech]
2015/09/10 10:42
NASA scientists turbocharge 3-D imaging device for minimally invasive surgeries.To operate on the brain, doctors need to see fine details on a small scale. A tiny camera that could produce 3-D images from inside the brain would help surgeons see more intricacies of the tissue they are handling and lead to faster, safer procedures.An endoscope with such a camera is being developed at NASA's Jet...
245 Million Wearable Devices Will Be Sold in 2019
[Business]
2015/09/10 10:42
That's three times the 84 million sold in 2015.In 2019 as many as 245 million wearable devices will be sold, according to CCS Insight's latest wearable tech report, Wearables Forecast Worldwide, 2015 - 2019. For wearables, this number is huge. In 2015, the biggest sellers like Fitbit and Apple are selling around 4.4 million and 3.6 million devices a quarter respectively. And CCS predicts that b...
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