While wearable devices have struggled to gain traction beyond early adopters, innovations in the category are going beyond basics like fitness tracking to serve those with physical challenges. This new breed is helping people with impaired motor skills and visual and audio function improve their wellbeing and live better lives.Signaloud In a modern twist on sign language, the SignAloud glove re...

2017 Tech Growth Exceeds Expectations: Industry Revenue to Reach Record Levels as Emerging Categories Soar, Says CTAConsumer enthusiasm for both emerging technology and resilient mature categories is exceeding expectations – driving the U.S. consumer technology industry to an estimated 3.2 percent revenue growth in 2017, earning $321 billion in retail revenues ($251 billion wholesale), accordi...

Euclideon's hologram table: early installations are likely to be used primarily at a municipal level for town planning and area response purposes.Australian company Euclideon has built a working prototype of what it calls the world's first true multi-user hologram table. Up to four people can walk around a holographic image and interact with it wearing only a small set of glasses – a far cry f...

The company has launched interactive 3D apps for kids in grades six through 12.Using Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality glasses, teaching platform Lifeliqe is offering schools educational apps to help teach children about everything from the circulatory system to electronegativity.The company hopes that letting kids experience lessons visually will help with memory retention, as well as in...

Researchers have engineered bendable batteries that can run on body-inspired liquids such as normal IV saline solution and cell-culture medium. The authors designed alternatives to lithium-ion batteries by focusing on the mechanical-stress demands of wearable electronics such as smartwatches and the safety requirements of implantable electronics.Implantable medical devices powered by batteries...

Airports in general are hectic and unpredictable and definitely not hearing-impaired friendly. This situation is a problem for hearing impaired airport passengers, therefore, several designers want to revolutionize the airport system with XENO. XENO is an airport communication and navigation system designed around the concept of personalizing airport for each passenger, including those with spe...

Coinbase has had a pretty crazy six months.It may be hard to remember, but at the beginning of 2017 the cryptocurrency world was a different place. Bitcoin was below $1000 per coin and the entire market cap for all cryptocurrencies was about 7x less than it is today. Since then, the market has surged. And as arguably the most established wallet and exchange service that exists today, Coinbase h...

Waymo has now scooped up a self-driving car patent for reducing surface rigidity of its vehicles, in an aim to make it possible for those cars to cause less damage to others in the unfortunate event of a collision between the self-driving car and other vehicles or property. According to the patent, the car would essentially be able to tell when it was about to hit something using one or more se...

Technologies and customer expectations have changed faster than marketing organizations. Here’s how to fix that.From the rise of online shopping channels to ad campaigns created for an audience of one, consumer marketing has changed more in the past ten years than it did in the previous 30. Despite that level of change and disruption, if you had put a few typical marketers from the 1980s into...

The new technology makes these meals shelf-stable for a year.Amazon, perhaps anticipating nuclear war or an impending apocalypse, is exploring technology that will allow it to produce complete meals that can be stored for long periods of time without refrigeration. In other words, Amazon is taking a page from the rations U.S. soldiers have known for decades: meals, ready to eat — commonly know...