Ultra-thin, custom-fit, biodegradable, and glow-in-the dark—there’s a condom for every taste, and a plethora of adventurous ways to wrap your junk for protection and pleasure. Even so, it’s a big challenge for vendors to keep their products interesting enough to tantalize new consumers. From sports-themed prophylactics with cheeky captions to commemorate the Pan Am games,…
Sony commercially introduced the Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery in 1991, revolutionizing the market by creating a reliable power source for consumer electronic devices. Nearly 25 years later, Li-ion batteries now represent a major portion of the consumer electronic market and are currently the fastest growing segment in the rechargeable battery market. This rapid growth can be…
Big beer companies in the USA have carefully cultivated an image of how their products fit into a ‘true American’ lifestyle—no game, trip or party is complete without a cold can of Bud, Coors, or Milwaukee’s Best, right? Well, not exactly. Turns out, Americans are moving away from the lighter, generic beers offered by big…
Location-based services were once the domain of the outdoors, with Google Maps quickly securing the top spot among digital mappers. But it turns out that we, as humans, are not only useless at finding our way outside, we also have issues indoors. So now the race is on to map not only our streets, but…
Enterprises, especially SMEs, are aggressively pushing for the adoption of bring your own device (BYOD) policies. And while more smartphones in the office generally means a more mobile, smarter workforce, it also leaves organizational data open to security threats. This jump in BYOD policies is expected to boost the phone based authentication services market…
Apple’s acquisition of Metaio in May followed months of rumors that the company was exploring AR to compliment services like maps and, unofficially, to unseat the less-than-popular Google Glass. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Metaio has worked on a technology that allows people wearing Google Glass-like eyewear to make any real world surface into a virtual touch…
Cellular M2M—which uses CDMA, 2G, 3G, and 4G/LTE networks to help electronic devices ‘talk’—has become a cornerstone for a new breed of data transmission, with the global cellular M2M connections and services market expected to grow at a CAGR of 31.77% and 28.47%, respectively, from 2014-2019. Expansion of LTE Networks Facilitating M2M Growth At the…
Norway recently cemented its status as one of the most electric vehicle friendly countries, by announcing that its postal service delivery fleet is going green thanks to the addition of nearly 300 Kangoo Z.E. electric vans. This is just the latest development in a country that has seen wide acceptance of electric cars, with about 50,000…
It’s an understatement to say that gambling is a popular pastime in the UK—Brits love to bet and it’s become a major commercial and social activity, to the extent that the gambling market in the UK is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.28% from 2015-2019. The gambling market generates revenue from betting, remote…
The virtual reality (VR) race is on, with heavy hitters like Oculus (which was recently acquired by Facebook), Samsung, Sony and Google all fighting to be king of the VR hill. One of the most exciting end-uses of VR, for both vendors and consumers, is gaming. Being immersed in an interactive virtual world is the…
