Weekly Roundup: CES 2013, ‘Generation LGBTQIA’ and totalitarian restaurants
-CES 2013: Wired‘s Mat Honan says it was a lackluster year for the show. Businessweek takes a look at what’s new in TVs. The Los Angeles Times spotlights the rise of “multi-mode” devices that combine...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Davos thus far, the rise of superbugs and Google’s driverless...
-In the run up to Davos, one New York Times writer outlines how “crisis is the new normal.” Meanwhile, The Guardian offers up daily recaps (here, here and here) of the annual World Economic Forum...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Virtual immortality, China’s love hunters and DIY biohackers
-The Economist examines India’s next generation of tech entrepreneurs and why the sector hasn’t evolved faster. -The New York Times looks at the crushing impact of Italy’s severe recession on its...
View ArticleIntelligent Objects for parents enable the ‘quantified baby’
Everyday objects are evolving into tech-infused smart devices with augmented functionality, a trend we’ve termed Intelligent Objects. Lately we’ve seen several examples of Intelligent Objects that...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: 100 Influentials, the future of cars, diaper-free kids
Find our roundups collected in magazine form on Flipboard, the iOS and Android app; download the app to view it here: http://flip.it/ojVTI. -Time publishes its annual list of the “100 Most Influential...
View ArticleGoodbye, ‘doofus dad’; hello, ‘co-parent’
This Father’s Day, let’s celebrate the decline of the “doofus dad,” that clueless stock character who has populated advertising for years. He’s on the way out thanks to disgruntled fathers, who have...
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Data point: Fathers grapple with work-life balance too
“The same tension felt by working mothers today is palpable and relevant for dads,” writes Wall Street Journal blogger Yee Lee, VP of engineering at TaskRabbit, in a post this week. Indeed, more than...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Privacy fears, Hollywood’s future and ‘happy feet’ for men
Find our roundups collected in magazine form on Flipboard, the iOS and Android app; download the app to view it here: http://flip.it/n7D37. -The FT’s “Responsible Business 2013” special report includes...
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Data point: The multidimensional man
As we outline in our new report “The State of Men,” men are coming to a more nuanced idea of masculinity, one that’s less hard-charging and career-focused, more well-rounded and family-focused. As...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Millennials redefine adulthood, Americans watch TV, and the...
Find our roundups collected in magazine form on Flipboard, the iOS and Android app; download the app to view this week’s edition here: http://flip.it/9bk7M. -As the Cannes ad festival neared a close,...
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Q&A with Andy Tu, SVP of marketing, Break Media
We interviewed Break Media’s Andy Tu while researching our latest trend report, “The State of Men.” Los Angeles-based Break Media is the largest creator and producer of male-targeted video and content...
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The many faces of American Millennials
American Millennials came under the microscope last week at a daylong event in New York hosted by youth market research firm Ypulse. While generalizations characterize much of the conversation around...
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Q&A, Brad Harrington, executive director, Boston College Center for Work &...
Our recent report “The State of Men” touches on the changing definition of fatherhood as men get more engaged with child-rearing. We discussed this trend with Brad Harrington, a professor at Boston...
View ArticleTwo-week roundup: The primacy of images, privacy ‘jumps the shark’ and the...
Find our roundups collected in magazine form on Flipboard, the iOS and Android app; download the app to view this week’s edition here: http://flip.it/QCCrO. Due to Independence Day office closures,...
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Q&A with Jon Berry, VP, GfK Consumer Trends
Jon Berry, who has studied consumer and societal trends for GfK for the past two decades, talked to us about the company’s research on men as we wrote our recent report “The State of Men.” Berry drew...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: ‘The Surveillance Society,’ mini-apartments and food sherpas
Find our roundups collected in magazine form on Flipboard, the iOS and Android app; download the app to view this week’s edition here: http://flip.it/WdYFV. -Among much coverage of the Omnicom-Publicis...
View ArticleFrom forks to mattresses and beer bottles, objects everywhere get smart
Like Elvis, the Internet is everywhere, and it is quickly becoming everything. Since we identified Internet-enabled Intelligent Objects as one of our 10 Trends for 2013, the number of smart goods has...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: ‘Dematerialization,’ geek power and listicles
Due to Labor Day office closures, this double-edition roundup covers items from the past two weeks. Find our roundups collected in magazine form on Flipboard, the iOS and Android app; download the app...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Micropopularity, biometrics and vaping
Find our roundups collected in magazine form on Flipboard, the iOS and Android app; download the app to view this week’s edition here: http://flip.it/J6FjO -The New York Times explores the emergence of...
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Q&A with Allyson Downey, co-founder, weeSpring
weeSpring aims to help new and expecting parents collect opinions on baby products from friends and the weeSpring community. The company participated in TechStars NYC’s most recent startup accelerator...
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