Two CE Trends to Watch
As we begin the New Year, the top question is where are the opportunities? The key picks for 2013 are investment in innovation and the new role of mobile devices. Investment in Innovation As the market environment becomes increasingly competitive, the need to innovate is the lifeblood for change and prosperity. The good news is...
Change & Innovation: Big Ideas
I am fascinated by innovations that solve “big” problems. Recently I was at MIT’s EmTech Conference as well as several health-focused events. A common thread throughout these conferences was that technology can be part of the solution to many of our greatest problems — from the threat of global warming and the energy crisis to...
The Emerging M2M Market
There is a surging interest in machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions and services. M2M is emerging from a cottage industry into the consumer technology industries in a major way. The notion of connecting the physical world to the Internet via wireless communication is a captivating idea. The promise of a world of connected devices in which machines...
Reinventing the Customer Relationship
Store loyalty is eroding. According to Nielsen, 43 percent of U.S. shoppers switched their retailer of choice after going online to research a product – but interestingly a McKinsey Research study found that 40 percent of customers remain open to persuasion once they enter a store. Consumers who shop across a number of channels –...
Entrepreneurs Connect at the 2012 International CES
Eureka Park was a new concept for CES this year designed to give cutting-edge, early stage companies and entrepreneurs exposure to potential investors and B2B industry partners, including those interested in joint ventures or licensing deals. There was plenty of innovation as well as a strong entrepreneurial spirit in Eureka Park which mushroomed to...
Top 5 Trends for 2012: Smart Medtech
Smart Medtech: Health and Wellness While fitness is increasingly associated with health, we see Smart Medtech as emerging as a major megatrend. Given skyrocketing health costs, the need for expanding and improved patient care given the deluge of 77 million aging boomers, forecasted shortages of doctors and other professionals, – companies across sectors are looking...
Top 5 Trends for 2012: Fitness & Staying in Shape
FITNESS AND STAYING IN SHAPE The converging of personal fitness awareness and in-home exercise and training opportunities — along with growing momentum on a corporate basis is moving tech fitness from just a ‘game’ into the trend category. With economic challenges and increasing costs of insuring one’s workforce – more companies are introducing corporate wellness...
Top 5 Trends for 2012: Education
Education is finally getting the attention it deserves! Public education has been a cornerstone of the U.S. as a civil society, a democracy, and as a global leader in innovation – but we are now at an inflection point in education. With a continued intense focus on the economy, there is growing recognition that the...
5 Digital Technology Trends to Watch in 2012
While we follow trends as it relates to consumer technology on a year ‘round basis – we thought that we would kick-off the New Year with our top five ‘hot emerging trends and new business opportunities.’ Technology is changing the world. It is profoundly shaping who we are and what we do, and we are...
CE Devices that Encourage Fitness and Health
Spiraling healthcare costs, an obesity epidemic and a shortage of healthcare professionals in rural communities, as well as an oncoming shortage of professionals for aging boomers, are forcing a fundamental change in healthcare delivery services and patient/provided dynamics. Wellness and fitness products are becoming essential for disease prevention, treatment and monitoring at home or on-the-go....
Gaming for Health
A new field is emerging that connects health care with solutions emerging from the videogame industry called Games for Health. Digital interactive games will play a pervasive, powerful role in health and health care. Games are aimed at motivating healthy behavior change, teaching health concepts that resonate, enhancing people’s cognitive health, taking medical training to...
Changing the World with Mobile Social Media
When the concept for the Internet emerged more than a half-century ago — who could have foreseen that vast amounts of information would easily be accessible on mobile devices like smart-phones, laptop computers and tablets? Back in the 1970s the U.S. Defense Department’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) established a digital communications network...
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