Facing a tight labor market and even tighter schedules, some companies are hiring employees, with benefits. A host of "instant delivery" startups, including Buyk, Fridge No More, and Gorillas, promise to deliver convenience-store-style products in 30 minutes or less. THE GIG ECONOMY is one of Silicon Valley’s greatest tricks of the last decade. Armed with a smartphone, a car, a bag, a bike, wo...

Which generation leads BNPL’s forward march ?For more insights and key statistics on the biggest trends in today's most disruptive industries, subscribe to our Chart of the Day newsletter.Usage of buy now, pay later (BNPL) services has soared across generations in the US, especially among Gen Z. These financing solutions will have more than 45 million US users in 2021, and that figure will...

Fresh Fridge is concept refrigerator that encourages user to shift from their unhealthy old habits into healthier and sustainable ones. Targeting millennials who are experiencing busy lifestyle that they have to sacrifice their health due to bad eating habits, this concept proposes a design intervention to solve this problem. The design process considered different potential strategies to engag...

Although every new year brings us a step further into a totally unknown future, the packaging design trends forecasted for 2022 are tinged with an overarching nostalgia.Freelance creator platform 99designs by Vista has cooked up a vibrant infographic delving into the types and styles of product packaging. You’ll likely be seeing these in the stores, in online shopping baskets, or perhaps alrea...

In 2022, the fashion industry can return to growth as changing category landscapes, new digital frontiers, and advances in sustainability continue to present opportunities.After nearly two years of disruption, the global fashion industry is once again finding its feet. Companies are adapting to new consumer priorities, and digital is providing a nexus for growth. Still, the industry faces signi...

The Disney Research propose to combine incomplete, high-quality renderings showing only facial skin with recent methods for neural rendering of faces, in order to automatically and seamlessly create photo-realistic full-head portrait renders from captured data without the need for artist intervention.In this work we propose to combine incomplete, high-quality renderings showing only facial skin...

U.S. patent application, US20210342025, discloses a method to facilitate user interactions with a foldable display. The method includes detecting a hover event via a hover sensor included within a first region, a touch event via a touch sensor included within a second region, and generating interactive content on the display. The interactive content differs between a first appearance and a seco...

NFTs have been the hottest topic and frothiest market of 2021, with sales volumes increasing by 100x while also becoming a topic of discussion on evening talk shows.It took crypto nearly a decade to really penetrate the mainstream, but NFTs only needed a couple of years to capture people’s attention. As brands like Budweiser, Visa, and Adidas have purchased NFTs and entered the space, it’s cl...

An AI algorithm called Botto has made somewhere around US$1.3 million at auction for its first six NFT artworks. Botto generates thousands of images, and a community of humans vote to influence its direction and decide which pieces go to auction.An AI artist, of course, has some serious advantages over its human counterparts. For starters, it can very quickly educate itself on the history of hu...