by david allan van nostrand | Jan 14, 2019 | Fads, Items in the News, Research, Technology
In 1999, Star Wars was in theaters, Space Invaders was in arcades, and our team was crisscrossing Europe and Asia, testing mock-ups of what would one day become tablet computers. The main attraction of our prototypes? They were a new category on the power-mobility...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 18, 2018 | Items in the News, Surveys, Technology
There are more than five million mobile apps, yet consumers only download a tiny fraction of them, and regularly use no more than 20 or 30 a month. Mobile users favor them over websites and expect them to be fast, comprehensive, and easy to use. How big is the...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 11, 2018 | Items in the News, Surveys, Technology
The Centers for Disease Control released a study that showed some things many of us would already have supposed to be true. For the first time ever, a majority of U.S. homes are cellphone-only. Ten years ago, nine of ten U.S. households had a landline, and now...
by david allan van nostrand | Apr 9, 2018 | Technology
During the late 1880s, the Swiss Army decided to purchase a new folding pocket knife for their soldiers. It was to be suitable for use by the army for two things other knives couldn’t do: opening canned field rations and disassembling the Swiss Army...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 4, 2017 | Big Data, Research, Technology
U.S. President Ronald Reagan liked to define “mixed emotions” as the feelings a man has as he watches his mother-in-law drive over the cliff in his new Cadillac. Another example involves how driverless vehicles will be programmed to react in emergencies. One is to act...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 13, 2017 | Research, Technology, Using Information
Sixty-seven years ago, Nielsen issued their first television audience ratings. They claimed their sample represented an accurate cross-section of U.S. geographies, markets, homes, families, people, incomes, educations, ages, ethnicities, and more. Two ways of...
