Added 29 January, 2014
Due to the laws of supply and demand, chocolate prices are now at an all-time high. One of the factors that has made it so popular is the widespread belief that dark chocolate – which represents about 20-percent of the market – is loaded with substances called flavanols that contribute to heart health. Now Crest, one of the world's largest...
Added 28 January, 2014
We have featured quite a number of 3D technologies on WikiTrend, but few are more fun than the various fingernail designs created by a New York City-based digital artists collaborative. Known as TheLaserGirls, this dynamic duo produces fun finger art made of dyed nylon. One of the best things about 3D printed objects is that lots of them are made...
Added 27 January, 2014
Trends can be recognized when many types of the same thing start happening at the same time. So it is with Web-enabled devices that invite pet owners to interact with their dogs and cats via video, even from the office or around the world. Some devices we have identified and written about that are part of this recent trend include PetCube and...
Added 26 January, 2014
More and more, skyscraper buildings around the globe are being fitted with programmable LED lighting that is "Vegasizing" the cities of the world. Often added to building tops and spires, this cacophony of colors is becoming the de facto new look for cities from Chicago and London to Singapore and Shanghai (pictured). In New York, LEDs have been...
Added 25 January, 2014
Procter & Gamble, the parent company of Gillette, one of the world's largest razor companies has said that its sales are taking a hit due to changing men's fashions. From Hollywood to hipsterdom, beards are in and wet shaving is out. Illustrating this trend, all five nominees for the Academy Award in the Best Actor category is wearing a beard...
Added 24 January, 2014
Energy drinks were one of the fastest-growing segments of the bottled drink sector in the last decade. From Red Bull to Rock Star, people have been downing these glow-colored and foul-tasting cocktails by the barrelful. But as they say, what goes up must come down, so perhaps it was inevitable that the next line of offence to hit grocery shelves...
Added 24 January, 2014
Although it sounds like science fiction, industrial cloning is already happening and clone farms are already up and running. In Shenzhen, China, one farm alone is cloning some 500 pigs this year in a factory outfitted with genetic sequencing processors. At the moment, these cloned animals are being used primarily for medical testing (In China, the...
Added 23 January, 2014
Augmented reality is the ability to add digital images to a live video screen, so that you can see what the world would look like if it were, well, augmented slightly. Ikea, the home furnishings giant, has a cool app that let you point your iPad camera at an empty corner of your living room and see on the screen what it would look like with a...
Added 22 January, 2014
Many social media watchers have noted that Facebook reached its peak user base in early 2013 and is now losing customers. Anecdotal evidence has shown us that the many Facebook users are losing interest and becoming disenchanted with the website. Now a new study called "Epidemiological modeling of online social network dynamics" published by the...
Added 21 January, 2014
As economies trend up and down, prices of hotel rooms usually become similarly elastic. Not true with luxury hotel suites, however, which have prices that seem to go only one direction: Up. The rich keep getting richer, and nowhere is that clearer these days than in the size and price of top hotels' top suites. Just as airlines battle for high-...