TREND REPORTS
Aura Water Pipe : Modern Bong for Smoking Your Tobacco or Weed
[Design]
2015/06/25 11:00
Aura Water Pipe has been designed to provide you with durable, cleanable, and user friendly smoking pipe that moves beyond adverse reaction and stigma associated with traditional bongs.On the marijuana market, there’s an absence of a product that connects with mature, style conscious, and forward thinking market. This concept water pipe is designed to appeal both new and existing users, a func...
(PDF) BCG - The Next Phase of Global Corporate Competition
[Business]
2015/06/24 15:51
The past few years have seen tremendous upheaval in a number of global industries. In 2000, giant Western companies such as Ericsson, Nokia, and Nortel Networks ruled the world’s telecommunications-equipment industry. Now, Chinese companies such as Huawei Technologies and ZTE have risen to the top. In the process, they have forced established multinational corporations (MNCs) into joint ventur...
The Venture Capital Firms That are Best at Spotting Unicorns
[Investing]
2015/06/24 15:51
By analyzing data from research firm Pitchbook, the goal was to find out which firms participated in rounds that directly pushed a startup’s valuation to $1 billion or more.Accel Partners and Insight Venture Partners came out on top, each with seven deals that helped propel a startup to “unicorn” status. But since the scope was late-stage deals, some readers noted, rightly so, that these fir...
This Amazing High-Rise Apartment Building Looks Like A Giant Tree
[Design]
2015/06/24 15:51
With balconies budding like leaves, no one could complain for lack of outdoor space in this building in France.Looking a little like a giant white pinecone, the design for this new high-rise apartment building in Montpellier, France, uses strategically placed balconies and shades to give residents the maximum outdoor space without blocking views or taking up too much room on the ground."We want...
Lego is Going Green - Lego will Say Goodbye to Plastic
[Business]
2015/06/24 15:50
The toy company plans to invest $1 billion over the next 15 years as part of a broad effort to replace its iconic plastic building blocks with materials that are better for the environment. It will also make its packaging more sustainable.The company made 60 billion Lego pieces last year. So a little bit of change could go a long way to "significantly reduce [Lego's] impact on the planet," Lego...
Human Organs-on-Chips wins Design of the Year 2015
[Tech]
2015/06/24 15:50
A micro-device lined with living human cells able to mimic the function of living organs has been declared the overall winner of the Design Museum's Design of the Year Award for 2015.Something of a departure from last year's winner, the Heydar Aliyev Center, by Zaha Hadid, Human Organs-on-Chips is the competition's first winner from the field of medicine in its eight-year history. Designed by D...
Project Will Make Clothes Cool So You Don't Need the AC
[Tech]
2015/06/24 15:49
Researchers from the University of California at San Diego are developing a smart fabric capable of helping the wearer maintain a comfortable body temperature. The aim: reducing the need for building-level air conditioning.According to the U.S. Department of Energy, five percent of all the electricity produced in the United States is used by air conditioners. This isn't just reflected in billio...
Grand Rounds Is Raising At Around A $750M Valuation
[Investing]
2015/06/24 15:49
Sources are telling TechCrunch that Grand Rounds, which sells companies a service that gives employees access to healthcare advice and treatment from experienced professionals around the United States regardless of where they live, is valued at around $750 million as part of a new financing round.Grand Rounds works with companies to add an extra layer to their health benefits that enables them...
Fashion-Forward Virtual Reality Headsets
[Design]
2015/06/24 15:49
Field's avant-garde headsets, paired with an Oculus Rift, pull a seemingly distant tech ever closer to mass adoption.Thanks to creative studio Field, you can see an Oculus Rift VR helmet that makes you feel like you’re in a sci-fi movie, or at least a member of the band Devo. These sleek headsets, of which they have three models, put an ultramodern carapace over the components of the Oculus Ri...
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