“Aunt Agatha's demeanour now was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.” - P.G. Wodehouse.I’ve spent a lot of time in the last few years looking at ecommerce and discovery - how do people decide what to buy online, when a shop can’t show it to them? It seems to me that pretty much every part of that question is...

Thule Tepui Foothill on one side, surfboards or cargo on the other.Tailgate, roof, hitch – a vehicle has a lot of cargo-hauling capacity, but capacity eventually runs out, especially once you start loading large items like roof-top tents (RTTs), kayaks, trailers and bike racks. Thule is attempting to ease the burden, splitting the roof-top tent in half so that the remaining half of the roof ca...

It is estimated 125 to 160 billion pounds of food is wasted every year in U.S. alone. This food is mostly perfectly edible and nutritious yet due to over production, bad weather, or over buying, it is wasted.Sustainable Family Farm is an innovative project that takes advantage of food waste in a household. It’s a mini indoor garden that takes advantage of food waste to produce fertilizer and h...

More than half of parents think their child may be addicted to screens by the end of the pandemic, yet there is an unarguable need for screens. Shared by uBreakiFix, here’s how to get the best out of screen time.Infographic : https://infographicjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/uBreakiFix-Screen-Time.png[uBreakiFix]

The pace of industry evolution continues to pick up.For a sobering reminder of the pace of change in technology markets, just look at the turnover at the top. In 1999, the list of the 15 highest-valued technology companies worldwide was populated by mainframe legacy companies such as IBM; enterprise resource planning (ERP) darlings such as Oracle; and the winners of the PC/workgroup computing p...

With help of a 30-year-old software architecture, Disney’s robots have their eyes on you.While it’s not totally clear to what extent human-like robots are better than conventional robots for most applications, one area I’m personally comfortable with them is entertainment. The folks over at Disney Research, who are all about entertainment, have been working on this sort of thing for a very l...

Workplace injuries, especially among frontline workers, can bring operations to a halt.A wearable device and software package being developed by New York-based Kinetic is providing workers with reminders and notifications for when the device is sensing a high-risk motion that could potentially cause an injury if it was repeatedly made, Haytham Elhawary, co-founder and CEO, told Crunchbase News....

Carrying physical cards is now a thing of the past.Philippe starck aeklys design near field communicated nfc credit debit business card transport pass contactless payment.Contactless payment has been around for a while now thanks to NFC-enabled bank and transport cards or apps like Apple Pay and Google Pay via your smartphones, but renowned designer Philippe Starck wasn’t satisfied with the st...

Following Pfizer and BioNTech’s announcement that their vaccine candidate was found to be 90 percent effective against COVID-19 in phase 3 trials, optimism quickly spread among investors, sending shares soaring across the globe. Unsurprisingly the bump was particularly noticeable for companies severely affected by the pandemic and the measures taken to contain it.As the following chart shows,...