TREND REPORTS
(Paper) The Billion Dollar Breather In, Breathe Out Routine
[Business]
2023/02/17 09:06
On February 13, researchers at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University released an in-depth empirical report on how data brokers in the U.S. are willing to sell sensitive data linked to telehealth and therapy apps to the highest bidder. Out of the 34 companies contacted by the author of the study, ten were ready to sell exhaustive lists with details on the app customers' "depress...
Stretchy Devices Spin Electricity from Body Heat
[Tech]
2023/02/17 09:05
This prototype device, patterned in the form of a zebra, is made from materials that could be integrated into fabrics, allowing for body heat-powered wearable sensors, or temperature-detecting disposable face masks. Phones, appliances, and humans all generate heat that usually escapes into the environment as waste energy. Thermoelectric generators, which convert temperature differences into ele...
Channel Your Inner Dora the Explorer With MSCHF's Big Red Boots
[Product]
2023/02/17 09:04
American art collective, MSCHF, has outdone itself with its latest release — and we’re sure you’ll agree.Inspired by Dora the Explorer and her best friend Boots, the outlandish offering comes in the form of a pair of Big Red Boots, in a bid to bridge the gap between the cartoon world and reality. Citing the cartoon world as “an abstraction that frees us from the constraints of reality,” th...
Luminous Rice-Shaped Balloons Invite Sake Lovers to Taste The Brew in Open-Air Bar
[Design]
2023/02/17 09:03
In celebration of Tokyo’s renowned Sake Jump festival, Japanese architecture office OKDO transforms the city’s bustling business district into an open-air sake-tasting bar with a pavilion of luminous balloon clouds. Amid the towering skyscrapers lining the Otemachi Naka-dori Avenue, the event brings the taste of 41 sake breweries from across the country to the metropolitan alley, gathering en...
Gartner - Emerging Technologies and Trends Impact Radar 2023
[Business]
2023/02/16 09:10
The 2023 Gartner Emerging Technologies and Trends Impact Radar shows product leaders where to capitalize on market opportunities.Gartner research reveals four emerging technologies and trends to which tech vendors and product leaders will need to respond, calibrating their tech strategies, investments and tools to stay ahead:1. Smart world expands with increased fusion of physical-digital exper...
The LEGO Van Gogh Sunflowers Build Shows a Wonderful 3D Brick-Version of The Painting
[Product]
2023/02/16 09:09
This LEGO MoC lets you go one step ahead of Miley Cyrus and “Build your own flowers” instead.Designed by LEGO master builder Chi Hsin Wei, the Van Gogh’s Sunflowers MOC (My Own Creation) garnered quite a lot of attention on their Instagram. Although Hsin Wei (who goes by Lego7 online) just teased the MOC build, it’s still not up on their LEGO Ideas page, so details on its availability are s...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Consumers Care About Sustainability—and Back It Up with Their Wallets
[Consumer]
2023/02/16 09:08
A joint study from McKinsey and NielsenIQ examines sales growth for products that claim to be environmentally and socially responsible.Total US consumer spending accounts for over $14 trillion annually and two-thirds of the US GDP. An important subset of this spending goes toward everyday consumer packaged goods (CPG), ranging from foods and beverages to cosmetics and cleaning products. The she...
Tiger Global Management Invest Another $100M in PhonePe
[Investing]
2023/02/16 09:07
PhonePe has raised another $100 million as part of an ongoing round, a deliberation that has now helped it pull $450 million in recent weeks despite the market downturn, as the Indian fintech giant bulks up its war chest following the recent separation from the parent firm Flipkart.Ribbit Capital, Tiger Global and TVS Capital pumped the new $100 million into the startup. The ongoing round value...
Airbnb Just Had Its First Profitable Year in History
[Investing]
2023/02/16 09:06
Airbnb just booked its first annual profit in its near-15-year history, minting a whopping $1.9bn in 2022.It may come as a surprise to some — particularly those who see the platform as a home for sneaky add-on charges — but, last year aside, Airbnb has lost ~$6bn since 2015.Additional feesSince it was founded in 2008, Airbnb has altered the world of travel as we know it, for better or worse....
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