Added 3 October, 2013
Just as mobile phones are slowly incorporating all manner of other personal electronics into their software to become all-in-one devices, wearable computers are headed in that same direction. The first devices, like the Nike Fuel Band, are concerned with monitoring a single aspect of wearers' lives, like activity levels. Now we're starting to see...
Added 2 October, 2013
Russian media outlet RIA Novosti is reporting that what citizens value most these days are the ability to run a business, vacation abroad, engage in sports, and go to church. Those are the results of an opinion poll of a cross-section of society conducted by the Levada Center, an independent pollster. According to 87 percent of respondents, taking...
Added 2 October, 2013
As economic confidence grows, in New York at least, 2013 marks the reverse in a trend with residents eating out more than the year before. According to the Zagat 2014 restaurant survey, people in the city ate in restaurants, or purchased ready-made meals 58 percent of the time, up from 49 percent just a year previous. Led by younger casual diners...
Added 1 October, 2013
We recently heard from real estate agents that solar panels are the new "must-have" accessories for homebuyers in the US and Europe. The trend is marching on and going even more mainstream as solar panels are being sold relatively inexpensively in stores around the world, including the Home Depot and Lowe's in the United States. . The Swedish home...
Added 30 September, 2013
Regular readers know that one of the biggest trends in conceptual art is an unexpected site that brings art to people, instead of the other way around. The latest example is The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, a series of artist-produced billboards that unfold for drivers along US Interstate 10, the highway that crosses the United States from...
Added 29 September, 2013
Texting and driving can be more dangerous than drinking and driving. There is something about humans' brains that don't let us do both effectively. Of course, that doesn't stop people from trying, leading to a huge number of accidents and deaths on the roads every year. To combat the texting while driving trend, politicians in New York State have...
Added 29 September, 2013
According to a recent report in the Daily Time, one of Pakistan's leading newspapers, some 96 percent of students in Karachi, the country's largest and most populous metropolitan city, are now habitual chewers of betel nut. The paper reports on a survey by that country's National Institute of Child Health which claims that up to 73 percent of...
Added 27 September, 2013
Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are the current darlings of entrepreneurs, innovation gurus and businesspeople everywhere. Have a great idea, collect small sums from lots of people and voila! you're on your way to success. What's kept this model back from funding really big projects is the fact that funders can't actually be...
Added 27 September, 2013
Consumers are demanding transparency and want to see how the products they buy got to them. Who made it? What is it made from? What impact does this product have on communities and the environment? In response to this desire, lots of brands have been incorporating their products' life stories into their labeling. Often this is being done in the...
Added 27 September, 2013
We've written quite a bit on WikiTrend about the mobile phone attachment trend, in which we are seeing all manner of clever gadgets you can connect to your mobile device. And while many of these are practical and innovative, and make carrying stand-alone devices obsolete, few have the power to change culture like the mobile breathalyzer attachment...