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Adidas Originals Launches Digital Ozworld Experience
[Business]
2022/05/22 09:09
Introducing new physical sneakers and digital personality-based avatars.Following the launch of the OZWORLD digital metaverse experience on April 15, the physical footwear collection has now officially arrived. The new OZWORLD series consists of new takes on adidas’ classic OZWEEGO and OZELIA as well as two newly launched OZNOVA and OZWEEGO META silhouettes.The OZWEEGO series features a chunky...
The Luxury Retail Market Shows No Signs of Fading
[Consumer]
2022/05/22 09:08
US consumer spending on luxury retail shows no sign of slowing, even as inflation and price increases cause many shoppers to trade down and cut back on discretionary purchases.Shoppers open their wallets: While many consumers are tightening their belts as they struggle to absorb higher food and gas prices, affluent Americans are ramping up their spending after largely holding back over the past...
(Video) Major Advance in 3D Ultrasound Imaging to Observe Entire Organs
[Tech]
2022/05/22 09:07
Two successive studies by the Physics for Medicine Paris laboratory (ESPCI Paris-PSL, Inserm, CNRS) highlight advances in non-invasive 3D ultrasound imaging, making it possible to observe blood flow in real time in two whole organs, the heart and the brain. This work was published in JACC Cardiovascular Imaging and featured on the cover of eBioMedicine.Organs are supplied by a complex network o...
How Inflation Changed the Price of a Hamburger
[Investing]
2022/05/22 09:06
With inflation standing at 8.3% year-over-year in April, everyday items are becoming pricier for U.S. consumers. Food prices in particular took some significant steps up, as seen in the example of shopping for hamburger ingredients.Meats experienced some of the highest price increases among food items: Ground beef now costs almost 15 percent more than in April 2021 and bacon is 17.7 percent mor...
This New Suitcase Doubles as a Bedside Table
[Design]
2022/05/22 09:05
For many, one of the worst parts of traveling is having to unpack all your belongings ... and then repack them a few days or weeks later. After all, there's always the fear that you're going to lose an item in the process. To remove this issue from the equation, 25-year-old British designer Mark Mitchell created a suitcase that can be used as a bedside table.According to DesignTAXI, the piece o...
Companies with Over $10 Billion in Net Digital Ad Revenues Worldwide, 2022
[Business]
2022/05/22 09:04
ByteDance properties Douyin and TikTok have been making waves inside and outside China for several years. Their combined spectacular growth will result in ad revenues of more than $30 billion for their parent company in 2022, leaving ByteDance in fifth place among ad publishers worldwide.ByteDance was likely already in fifth place as far back as 2020, but this is the first year we have a combin...
Photographer Hugo Suíssas Reveals the Power of Perspective With Playful Compositions
[Design]
2022/05/22 09:03
This photographer named Hugo Suissas from Lisbon, Portugal creates surreal, mind-bending, and magical photographs by using forced perspective and angles.He turns simple bridges and landscapes into surreal and fantastical places, and items like keys, fruits, and kids' toys into magical props. Every single photograph has a different story and a different idea. They help us see the dull and boring...
(Video) Arianee Raise $20M for Web3 Platform for Luxury and Fashion
[Investing]
2022/05/19 09:10
The funding was led by Tiger Global and is a mix investment of equity in Arianee’s software solution and their native cryptocurrency, Aria20. What happened: Paris-based Web3 platform for luxury and fashion Arianee has raised €20 million in Series A funding. Brands such as Printemps, Breitling, Vacheron Constantin, and Paris Fashion Week have all used Arianee as a source to mint NFTs and distr...
(Infographic) Mastercard Biometric Checkout Program - The Next-gen Point of Sale
[Business]
2022/05/19 09:09
Mastercard unleashes new era of biometric payments to enhance the checkout experience.No more fumbling for your phone or hunting for your wallet when you have your hands full – the next generation of in-person payments will only need a quick smile or wave of your hand. The trusted technology that uses your face or fingerprint to unlock your phone can now be used to help consumers speed through...
