TREND REPORTS
Augmented and Virtual Reality To Hit $150 Billion, Disrupting Mobile By 2020
[Business]
2015/04/09 15:47
The augmented reality and virtual reality markets have yet to get off the ground. But market advisor Digi-Capital estimates that the combined markets will reach $150 billion by 2020.Virtual reality and augmented reality are exciting ? Google Glass coming and going, Facebook’s $2 billion for Oculus, Google’s $542 million into Magic Leap, not to mention Microsoft’s HoloLens. There are amazing...
Why In-N-Out Burger Won't Expand to the East Coast
[Business]
2015/04/09 11:09
In-N-Out burger has been holding pop-up restaurants around the world, but the burger chain will not expand to the East Coast.In-N-Out, the cult favorite burger joint of the West Coast, has been teasing the East Coast with rumors of expansion for years. The fast-food retailer has slowly expanded eastward over its 65-year lifetime to Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and more recently Texas. The company has...
The Most Popular Programming Languages are Rapidly Changing
[Tech]
2015/04/09 11:08
Technology moves fast, particularly on the software side, as Stack Overflow’s annual survey of developers demonstrates.The popular Q&A site for people who write code released results this week from a poll of more than 25,000 developers, who were queried on everything from their country of origin to their caffeine consumption to the programming languages they use most.Responses to the latte...
How Rich and Poor Spend (and Earn) Their Money
[Investing]
2015/04/09 11:07
Higher-earning consumers spend less on housing, food and health care. For many Americans, the rise in food and housing prices is a tough squeeze. That’s because?even in an era with low overall inflation?low-income Americans spend a disproportionate share of their money on food and housing.New data from the Labor Department show the extent of the discrepancy. The bottom 10% of Americans, by inc...
(Video) A Clever Shock-Absorbing Bike Wheel, Now for Wheelchairs
[Product]
2015/04/09 11:07
Loopwheels, as its called, was recently shortlisted for the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year award. When we first covered the product in 2013, cycling enthusiasts gave it a ringing endorsement, saying they were “immediately impressed at the ride quality.” Since then, Loopwheels has expanded from bikes to wheelchairs.Entreprrneurs love to claim they’re “reinventing the wheel.” So...
A Chart Showing You How Much Water It Takes To Grow All The Food You Eat
[Consumer]
2015/04/09 11:04
How much more water does it take to produce an ounce of bread, than a ounce of juice? The answer is not quite what you might expect.[click to enlarge]This chart is the work of Kyle Kim over at the LA Times, and it breaks down just how much water goes into producing different kinds of common foods. As you can see, meat is (unsurprisingly) the top water siphoner, but even beyond that category the...
Which Social Networks Have the Most Engaged Audience ?
[Consumer]
2015/04/09 11:04
Social media remains one of the paramount digital topics, as leading platforms continue to attract huge audiences and account for an increasingly large share of consumers’ time spent online. To get a sense of how these social networks will fare over the course of this year, it’s worth getting some perspective as to how they stack up against each other in the present.Facebook remains the golia...
(Video) Philips Hue Go Offers Smart Lighting Without The Cord
[Product]
2015/04/09 11:03
The Hue Go can output at up to 300 lumens when plugged in, but cuts it to 40 percent brightness when used unplugged to maximums battery, which gives you a pleasing but dim kind of ambient lighting.Overall, it’s plenty bright for most cases where you’d be using a portable lighting solution anyway, especially given that this isn’t a work light designed for the workshop, for instance. It’s als...
(Infographic) The CEO Bookshelf : 22 Top CEOs Reveal Their Favorite Books
[Business]
2015/04/08 11:27
Just as the books US presidents read shape their time in office, so do the titles that CEOs read during their tenure. Some reach for the classics like "The Catcher in the Rye." Others go for the quirky, such as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Then there are those CEOs that read books about other CEOs. For more recommendations, check out this visual reading list created by Domo and CEO.c...
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