TREND REPORTS
Lipstick Made from Algae Comes in Refillable, Biodegradable Packaging
[Product]
2021/08/11 09:09
Urth's sliding lipstick comes with a refillable dispenser made up of only five components.A student-led beauty brand has launched a refillable sliding lipstick with sleek, biodegradable packagingSpotted: The beauty and personal care market is constantly growing. Whilst the industry attempts to be more sustainable, single-use plastics continue to be produced, filling up landfills. With the aware...
“No Credit Card” Is the New Credit Card
[Business]
2021/08/11 09:08
Younger consumers are opting out of credit cards and into digital payment alternatives.Could paying with a credit card become a thing of the past? Data from NPS PrismSM, Bain's customer experience benchmarking service, shows that over the past year alone, the percentage of US consumers younger than 25 who don’t use a credit card grew by 83%. In fact, when considering the breakdown of market sh...
(Video) Portable AR Glasses with Voice Control AI - Rokid Air
[Product]
2021/08/11 09:07
Voice control, gesture control and myopia friendly, Rokid Air enhances your AR experience and takes games & movies to a whole new level. Rokid Air AR glasses are powerful, intuitive and lightweight enough for daily use. Simply put them on to experience a huge 120'' virtual screen that provides an unprecedented, immersive, multimedia experience for apps, games, and movies. With voice contr...
Musical Tastes Around the World
[Consumer]
2021/08/11 09:06
Music might be a universal language but what sounds like music to one’s ears differs between people and countries.Despite some regional differences occurring in the data collected by the Statista Global Consumer Survey, the works of great classical composers, rock icons and pop divas have reached every corner of the world, as seen by the popularity of these genres around the globe.Despite hip-...
Upscribe, Raising $4M, Wants to Drive Subscription-First DTC Brand Growth
[Investing]
2021/08/11 09:05
Upscribe founder and CEO Dileepan Siva watched the retail industry make a massive shift to subscription e-commerce for physical products over the past decade, and decided to get in it himself in 2019.The Los Angeles-based company, developing subscription software for direct-to-consumer e-commerce merchants, is Siva’s fourth startup experience and first time as founder. He closed a $4 million s...
TikTok Overtakes Facebook as World's Most Downloaded App
[Business]
2021/08/11 09:04
China's TikTok was the most downloaded social media app in 2020 -- ahead of Facebook and three other apps the U.S. company owns.A global survey of downloads in 2020 shows TikTok, a video-sharing app developed in China, on top of the list of social media providers for the first time since the study was first conducted in 2018.According to Nikkei Asia, a global survey of downloads in 2020 showed...
(Video) Audi’s New Skysphere Concept is Two Cars in One
[Design]
2021/08/11 09:03
The car, while only a concept so far, gives us a glimpse into the future of Audi design and engineering, and we’re seriously here for it.When we first heard about the Skysphere, Audi sounded a little cagey. They told us it was a sports car, but they also told us it was autonomous. It almost seemed like they couldn’t get their story straight. Well… now it makes sense. It’s both.The main feat...
(PDF) BCG - Global Wealth Report 2021
[Investing]
2021/08/10 09:10
Sometimes, it takes having the world turned upside down to understand what it should look like right-side up.After a year and a half of norm-busting events, individuals and businesses know what is essential and what is not. Having adapted to extraordinary challenges, we’ve all learned that it’s possible to pivot in ways we couldn’t have imagined before. And having lived through dizzying chan...
(Video) Louis Vuitton is The Latest Luxury Brand to Make Its Own Video Game
[Product]
2021/08/10 09:09
The fashion house is marking what would have been his 200th birthday.Louis Vuitton is kicking off a bumper celebration on what would have been its founder's 200th birthday. The fashion house – which will be hosting a series of celebratory activations over the next few months – has today launched a new game which is inspired by the journey Louis Vuitton made as a 14-year-old man.Vuitton was ju...
