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(Infographic) How Beauty Brands Can Make Sustainability Chic
[Consumer]
2022/10/06 09:08
There's a way to talk about green initiatives while engaging consumers. The majority of sustainability-related topics in the beauty industry relate to packaging. The global beauty industry is worth $511 billion. Yet even with the threat of climate change looming over everyone, sustainability issues still account for less than 6% of online mentions by beauty brands. On a hopeful note, that figur...
Online Daters Say It’s Important to See COVID-19 Vaccination Status on Profiles
[Consumer]
2022/10/06 09:06
About half of recent online daters in U.S. say it’s important to see COVID-19 vaccination status on profiles.The COVID-19 pandemic has caused some Americans who use dating sites and apps to look for a new compatibility clue: Their prospective match’s vaccination status. Among U.S. adults who have used a dating site or app in the past year, about half (47%) say it has been at least somewhat im...
Monitoring Parkinson’s Patients at Home Could Improve Disease Management
[Tech]
2022/10/06 09:05
Device uses low-power radio waves to assess walking speeds.[Illustration showing a device with an antenna on a wall, radiating a signal. A figure walks through a door and is seen in several phases of gait as they wall towards the device.] RADAR REMOTE MONITORING PARKINSON'S DISEASE GAIT CONTROLA radar device the size of a Wi-Fi router could help continuously monitor Parkinson’s disease in pati...
How Do Americans Spend Their Money, By Generation ?
[Consumer]
2022/10/06 09:04
In 2021, the average American spent just over $60,000 a year. But where does all their money go? Unsurprisingly, spending habits vary wildly depending on age.This graphic by Preethi Lodha uses data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to show how average Americans spend their money, and how annual expenses vary across generations.Gen X has been nicknamed the “sandwich generation” because...
A Winner of The Red Dot Design Concept Award 2022 - The Retractable Garment
[Design]
2022/10/06 09:04
The Retractable Garment is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2022.Designed to be comfortably worn while a pregnant mother carries their child, the ‘Retractable Garment’ by IU+ Design features a unique fabric construction that expands aesthetically as the wearer’s body does. A winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award, the garment relies on a series of uniquely positi...
Fenty Beauty Exposed—and Helped Remedy—the Makeup Industry’s Lack of Inclusivity
[Business]
2022/10/06 09:03
How a celebrity brand shook up the cosmetics business, one shade at a time.Two years ago, model and businesswoman Beverly Johnson wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post looking back on some history she had made 46 years earlier. In August 1974, Johnson became the first Black woman to be featured on the cover of Vogue magazine.But Johnson was not in a nostalgic mood. The fashion and beauty indus...
(Paper) A Project Titan Patent from Apple Reveals An Advanced Windshield System
[Tech]
2022/10/05 09:10
Earlier this month the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to Project Titan. Apple's patent covers systems, apparatus, and techniques for sensing defects associated with a window and for performing image processing based at least partly on the sensed defects. Apple's patent describes a lighting and camera system on the windshield of an autonom...
(PDF) BCG - Win the Town to Win the Future of Retail
[Business]
2022/10/05 09:09
It’s no longer as simple as “bigger is better.” Retailers need to build local ecosystems to reach customers where they live and work.The old rules of retail are gone.Historically, retailers have followed a strategy of building scale through store expansion and geographic reach. More brick-and-mortar stores meant greater economies of scale, lower operational costs, and the buying power to red...
(Paper) Microchip Helps Tiny Robots Move Autonomously and Untethered
[Tech]
2022/10/05 09:08
A robot invisible to the naked eye has a tiny microprocessor “brain” onboard. Building self-sufficient robots is no easy task. One reason is because autonomous robots need to have onboard control, using an internal processing system to undertake actions. Onboard control is even more difficult to implement on a micro scale, where systems must be downsized to near-invisibility while retaining t...
