TREND REPORTS
(Patent) Apple Seeks to Patent a Biofeedback Method to Invoke Greater Pupil Radius Response
[Tech]
2021/12/02 09:09
U.S. patent application, US20210349536, discloses a biofeedback method to invoke greater pupil radius response. The device utilizes a sensor to obtain physiological data associated with a pupillary response of a user with respect to the visual characteristics of a displayed object. The device adjusts the visual characteristics based on the obtained physiological data to enhance pupillary respon...
Investors Are Piling Into Crypto Startups - Just Not in China
[Investing]
2021/12/02 09:08
For the first time in four years, venture investors are backing more crypto and blockchain startups in the U.S. than they are in Asia—a sign that China’s crackdown on alternative currencies has chilled the country’s upstart industry. Though the country was once a crypto capital, China’s new restrictions on tech companies have driven down the number of cryptocurrency and blockchain startups...
Titan Advanced Energy Solutions Raises $33M in Series B Funding
[Investing]
2021/12/02 09:07
Titan Advanced Energy Solutions, a Salem, Mass.-based provider of ultrasound-based battery management solutions, raised $33m in Series B financing.The round was led by HG Ventures, the corporate investment arm of The Heritage Group. Additional investors from the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East included H+ Partners, GS Futures, the investment arm of the GS Group, GS Energy, Doral Energy-T...
Have Shopping Holidays Jumped the Shark ?
[Consumer]
2021/12/02 09:06
After years of unabated growth, Black Friday and Cyber Monday online sales dipped for the first time this year, as many shops spread out deals over the entire Thanksgiving week or even further. “With early deals in October, consumers were not waiting around for discounts on big shopping days like Cyber Monday and Black Friday,” said Taylor Schreiner, Director at Adobe Digital Insights.Accordi...
Fold Partners with Niantic to Create AR-based Bitcoin Rewards App
[Business]
2021/12/02 09:05
Fold is launching an augmented reality experience where players can earn Bitcoin in a kind of augmented reality environment.Fold, a reward and payments app, partnered with Niantic to create the Fold AR beta app, which overlays Bitcoin prizes over the real world. It uses Niantic’s real-world mapping tech and Fold’s feature for earning Bitcoin rewards. The company calls this a step into the rea...
The Nikon Coolpix 100 Just Got Reimagined as a Modern Teleconferencing Device
[Design]
2021/12/02 09:04
Nobody uses point-and-shoot cameras anymore… but everyone needs better webcams.It took Apple till the year 2021 to realize that laptops need better webcams (a sudden push towards WFH culture definitely helped), and even though we’ve all got pretty great video cameras in our pockets, our smartphones are capable of so much more that it seems quite reductionist to use them as just ‘webcams’ du...
Where Consumers are Most Comfortable with Secondhand Clothing
[Consumer]
2021/12/02 09:03
In China and the US, 59% of internet users are comfortable using secondhand clothing items, making those countries where the resale fashion economy is most ripe for growth. By contrast, far fewer internet users in Italy (37%), Spain (36%), and Japan (30%) are comfortable with apparel by way of thrift stores, consignment shops, and other resellers.[emarketer]
(PDF) The Metaverse : Web 3.0 Virtual Cloud Economies
[Investing]
2021/12/01 09:10
Crypto cloud economies are the next emerging market investment frontier and the Metaverse is at the forefront of this Web 3.0 internet evolution. The Metaverse is a set of interconnected, experiential, 3D virtual worlds where people located anywhere can socialize in real-time to form a persistent, user-owned, internet economy spanning the digital and physical worlds.The Metaverse is still emerg...
(Video) Invisible Power Delivery Through Glass - Power Tap (P-Tap®)
[Tech]
2021/12/01 09:09
P-Tap® is a transparent lamination of conductive and non-conductive glass. The arrangement allows power or data to be transferred across individual layers within the lamination. Pre-machined apertures create taps to the positive and negative charged inner coatings that supply power delivery to embedded devices. These connected devices appear to be freely floating within an optically clear glas...
