MONTHLY TREND REPORT - October. 2021 Edition Released !TRENDBIRD (What's the Next Big Thing ?) is a Global Trend Research & Consulting Service that Instantly Delivers Industry Expert Information on Emerging Trends & Future Business Opportunities from Around the World, Ahead of The Curve."

Succeeding in the fast-growing food-delivery ecosystem will require understanding how overlapping economic forces affect a complex web of stakeholders.How the world eats is changing dramatically. A little under two decades ago, restaurant-quality meal delivery was still largely limited to foods such as pizza and Chinese. Nowadays, food delivery has become a global market worth more than $150 bi...

DefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpensive, unmodified, 3D printer with no additional software. This is achieved by using the material properties to encode the textile form: specifically using the periodic gaps that emerge when not enough material is being used to print. The printer moves and prints the sa...

Francis Medical, Inc., a privately-held medical device company developing an innovative and proprietary water vapor ablation therapy for the treatment of prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer, today announced the completion of the company’s $55.0 million Series B equity financing.Solas BioVentures led the Series B round with other previous investors, including Arboretum Ventures, Coloplast A/S,...

While advances in machine learning, computer vision, chatbots and edge artificial intelligence (AI) drive adoption, it's these trends that dominate this year’s Hype Cycle.[click to enlarge]Through the use of natural language processing (NLP) and emerging technologies such as generative AI, knowledge graphs and composite AI, organizations are increasingly using AI solutions to create new produc...

In a world dominated by online learning, the Moon projector offers a hybrid style of teaching, where teachers/mentors can project AR content over their students’ textbooks.Designed to make learning from home just about as easy and rewarding as actually being around a teacher/tutor, the Moon projector lets teachers interact with students through augmented reality. The projector sits right in fr...

After three months of consecutive growth, the rise of streaming took a pause this month, according to the August release of The Gauge, Nielsen’s Total TV and Streaming viewing snapshot. Compared to July, The Gauge’s reported August numbers remained mostly static, belying two strong undercurrents of change: the revival of a largely in-person school season and one of the highest-profile events...

WPP hopes to use the platform as a way to foster “cross-campus collaboration” and improve productivity while COVID-19 makes it difficult for employees to travel and meet in person.Global communications company WPP has created a world in Minecraft to be used for employee interactionsSpotted: The increased number of people working from home, at least part of the time, has led companies to think...

Turns out, if forced to choose, a sixth of millennials would sacrifice sex for scrolling.What’s more addictive: sex or your phone? They both have the capacity to deliver a shot of pleasure-boosting chemicals to the brain (and nether regions), so it might be a tough pick.But for some, the answer is clear. One in six millennials (16%) say they would rather give up sex than part with their smartp...