TREND REPORTS
This Smart-Speaker Uses a Conical Chamber to Naturally Amplify Its Sound
[Design]
2020/10/19 09:03
The HomePod Mini launched yesterday, and it got me thinking about how most people naturally place their smart-speakers on shelves, cabinets, and mantelpieces that are against a wall. Most smart-speakers utilize a 360° array of drivers to throw audio in all directions – because companies expect you to keep your smartphone in a centrally located position, but that’s a strange assumption to mak...
(PDF) BCG - Who Is the Emerging-Market Consumer in the Postpandemic Era ?
[Business]
2020/10/18 09:10
Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and six months since our initial consumer sentiment survey in emerging markets, consumers’ behavioral patterns are starting to take shape. People are adapting, and while the dust is yet to settle, we already see early signals of a new reality.The following trends give every indication of being permanent shifts, with significant implications for companies...
How Robots Became Essential Workers in the COVID-19 Response
[Business]
2020/10/18 09:09
Autonomous machines proved their worth in hospitals, offices, and on city streets.[A robot, developed by Asimov Robotics to spread awareness about the coronavirus, holds a tray with face masks and sanitizer.]As the coronavirus emergency exploded into a full-blown pandemic in early 2020, forcing countless businesses to shutter, robot-making companies found themselves in an unusual situation: Man...
Singapore Airlines is Turning Its Planes Into Pop-up Restaurants - Restaurant A380 @Changi
[Business]
2020/10/18 09:08
When the pandemic struck, air travel ground to a halt as people felt unsafe flying and borders were restricted. In the U.S. alone, the four largest airlines lost $10 billion in the second quarter. To stop the bleeding, some airlines are now coming up with creative ideas to generate revenue. Singapore Airlines, which experienced a 99.5% drop in passengers during its first quarter, is turning two...
(Paper) Microsoft Explains How It Improved Automatic Image Captioning in Azure Cognitive Services
[Tech]
2020/10/18 09:07
Microsoft launched a new computer vision service it claims can generate image captions that are, in some cases, more accurate than human-written descriptions. [Image captioning results on nocaps. B: A baseline without adding VIVO pretraining. V: With VIVOpretraining. Red text represents novel objects. The bounding box color is brighter when the similarity is higher.]The company calls the servic...
(Infographic) Consumers Are Burned Out by Advertising With Covid-19 Messaging
[Consumer]
2020/10/18 09:06
As brands try to address the pandemic, consumers are becoming increasingly frustrated by messaging that doesn't feel authentic. Every time you open up your laptop, scroll through social media or flip through the TV channels, you’re bound to come across something about Covid-19. But when it comes to advertising, recent data shows, consumers are fed up and want a reprieve.Real Talk Insights cond...
TULA Skincare Launches Millennial Focused ‘Ageless’ Franchise to Help Disrupt the Anti-Aging Category
[Business]
2020/10/18 09:05
Company disrupts the anti-aging category with clean clinical solutions that welcome millennials into the space with an innovative perspective on embracing skin at every age.TULA Skincare, the leading clean clinical skincare brand powered by probiotics and superfoods, today announced the launch of its new 'Ageless' product franchise, as the Company continues its record-setting growth, to help di...
The 'Auvis' Digital Stethoscope Detects the Early Signs of Arthrosis
[Design]
2020/10/18 09:04
The 'Auvis' digital stethoscope has been designed by Lara Laddey of the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel University as a health monitoring solution that will offer healthcare providers with a better way to track for problems. The device works by being positioned onto the skin around joints and will go to work utilizing advanced sensors to detect for sounds being emitted by joints. This could help...
Turn Kitchen Waste Into Real Compost in Only 48h - KALEA
[Product]
2020/10/18 09:03
KALEA is a fully automatic kitchen composter, which unites a natural composting process with an unique and smart technology.Using a compost heap is a great way of putting food waste to use, but that waste can take several weeks or longer to become compost – in the meantime, it may stink or attract pests. The indoor Kalea device, on the other hand, is claimed to produce compost in just two days...
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