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(Infographic) How COVID-19 Consumer Spending is Impacting Industries
[Consumer]
2020/04/26 09:03
Consumer spending is one of the most important driving forces for global economic growth.Beyond impacting some of the factors that determine consumer spend—such as consumer confidence, unemployment levels, or the cost of living—the COVID-19 pandemic has also drastically altered how and where consumers choose to spend their hard-earned cash.Today’s graphic pulls data from a global survey by M...
(Patent) Future Apple Watches Could Detect If You’re Drowning, Call for Help
[Tech]
2020/04/23 09:10
The Apple Watch is already one of the best smartwatches out there, featuring all the health and safety-related features, including heart rate monitoring and irregular heart rate alerts, fall detection, and more. But Apple wants to do more, and one of its patents reveals that the company wants to detect when a user is drowning and alert authorities in such cases.Apple has filed a new patent with...
(PDF) Deloitte - How will Millennials and Gen Z Use 5G ?
[Consumer]
2020/04/23 09:09
Mobile video streaming, gaming, and digital reality are top choices.Younger consumers, committed to their mobile devices, are looking forward to using 5G technology mostly for streaming video, VR/AR entertainment, and multiplayer gaming with social features.Which applications will millennials and Gen Z use more with 5G?WHILE some people are looking forward to 5G so they can more easily stream...
Bra Masks are a Thing Now
[Product]
2020/04/23 09:08
A slew of fashion brands have pivoted their manufacturing to meet demand for fabric masks, which can help prevent the spread of COVID-19. But one Japanese brand has adapted apparel that rarely sees the light of day under normal circumstances—and may have unwittingly brought back an ’80s trend in the process: underwear as outerwear.Atsumi Fashion, an intimate apparel company in Toyama, Japan,...
Brands Owned by Johnson & Johnson
[Business]
2020/04/23 09:07
What does Johnson & Johnson own? Does Johnson & Johnson own Aveeno, Tylenol, Nicorette, Band-Aid, or Pepcid? What about the brand that produced the medical device in your knee or the prescription drug you’re taking? Chances are good that if you’ve gone to a drugstore in America, your eyes have landed on a few iconic Johnson & Johnson brands. There are more than 250 Johnson & J...
(Video) Roombot Swarm Creates On-Demand Mobile Furniture
[Tech]
2020/04/23 09:06
All the furniture you’ll ever need is a swarm of modular robots.A rendering shows how swarms of Roombots would be able to assemble tables and other pieces of furniture.For the last decade-ish, EPFL’s Roombots have been modularizing their way towards becoming the only piece of furniture you’ll ever need. These little squarish roundish robotics modules, which can move around and latch onto eac...
Consumers Are Spending Less on Clothes and More on Food, Health Products
[Consumer]
2020/04/23 09:05
US consumers are shopping online more as they continue to avoid brick-and-mortar. According to a recent eMarketer study conducted by Bizrate Insights, health, food and beverage purchases made digitally are seeing an uptick. Apparel, not so much.Which Product Categories Have US Digital Buyers Purchased Digitally in the Past Month? (% of respondents, Feb & April 2020)In April 2020, 52% of US...
Blast Off Into a Good Hair Day with This Conceptual Hair Dryer - Spaceship
[Design]
2020/04/23 09:04
Hair dryers are not the most eye-catching personal item (Dyson users, please fasten your seatbelts for now) and Korean designer, Hyoyeong Kim, wanted to give it a personality and a story. Something that made the humble hair dryer into an exciting gadget and being in quarantine, everyday objects is where we find our routine (and maybe happiness!). She turned the hair dryer into a spaceship and w...
(Infographic) How Oil Prices Went Subzero : Explaining the COVID-19 Oil Crash
[Investing]
2020/04/23 09:03
How is that possible? And how does it tie into the COVID-19 oil price crash in general?The Great Lockdown continues to turn markets on their head. Last week, we dug into the unprecedented number of initial jobless claims coming out of the United States, which topped 22 million in a period of four weeks.It’s just days later, and we already have our next market abnormality: this time, traders we...
