Five Tech Trends Impacting Business Innovation in 2012

Highlights From Our 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Trend GuideJudging several categories of the CES Innovation Awards over the last three years has revealed five patterns we, at UPSTREAM, believe will impact the business of innovation for marketers, researchers and technologists in the near term...

The “appification of everything”, open source tech and accessible manufacturing merge the tangible product and digital, online worlds. Digital and interactive technologies have been bound in the past to browsers, websites and technology devices. Invention and manufacturing of physical product has been constrained by accessibility to closed and complex manufacturing chains. This is changing as open source hardware, software and manufacturing technologies mainstream, and what we deem “product” will change. And it will be more accessible to all...