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This Canadian Company Sells Zero-Waste, Plastic-Free Toothpaste
[Product]
2019/12/18 09:06
Have you ever thought about what happens to toothpaste tubes once you squeeze out the last blob and toss it in the trash? The answer is nothing! They last forever – well, 500 years is the rough estimate. Because a typical tube contains 11 layers of plastics, polymers and resins, toothpaste tubes cannot be recycled and do not break down in the environment. That means every single one ever made...
From Ideal to Real : Bridging the Gap to Better Eating in America
[Consumer]
2019/12/18 09:05
Americans want to eat healthfully. And it’s this intention to eat better that should serve as a guide for food and beverage companies into 2020 and beyond.We’re all human, and that means we don’t always do as we say. But there are reasons for that. Some are logical, others are emotional…but the gap is real. And the smartest companies are dialed into the nature of human behavior. They’re ev...
Ponix Is Bringing Local Produce to Food Deserts With Hydroponic Technology
[Business]
2019/12/18 09:04
“We believe everybody should have access to fresh food,” Michael Choi, CEO of Ponix Farms tells me over the phone. Ponix is a New York City-based “food utility company” — only up and running in Atlanta, so far — that creatively uses hydroponics technology to grow produce in solar-powered container farms, not unlike shipping containers. Ponix’s primary goal is to establish food security i...
Japanese Stationery Company Develops Translucent Eraser - Clear Radar
[Product]
2019/12/18 09:03
The rubber eraser is said to be roughly 250 years old. But for all its old age, the partner to any pencil has always had one major flaw. You can’t see what you’re erasing. Until today. Osaka-based stationery company Seed, who has been making erasers since the 1950s, has developed a translucent eraser.Seed says they came up with the concept of a clear eraser 5 years ago. But it took years of t...
10 Startups That Raised The Most Money in 2019
[Investing]
2019/12/17 09:10
While bigger funding rounds may not always be better, they definitely dominate the headlines. According to Crunchbase, this year over $163.5 billion has been invested in startups globally. Investors have been making big bets across a broad range of industries, including everything from real estate companies to food delivery technologies. These 11 startup companies are breaking records and have...
Bosch Enables the Next Generation of Smartglasses
[Product]
2019/12/17 09:09
Innovative Light Drive system for smartglasses creates the first transparent, lightweight, and stylish user experience.- World’s first all-day transparency smartglasses solution- Smallest Light Drive on the market: 30 percent less depth- Highly efficient, lightweight system, weighing less than 10 grams- Delivers high quality, bright images, even in direct sunlight- Turnkey Light Drive display...
10 Facts about Americans and YouTube
[Consumer]
2019/12/17 09:08
YouTube is one of the most popular online platforms in the United States. The video-sharing site serves as a forum for entertainers, commentators, businesses and others, and Americans use it in a variety of ways, from getting the news to learning new skills. At the same time, YouTube has faced scrutiny – as other online platforms have – about issues including online harassment, misinformation...
(Video) StickyTouch : An Adhesion Changeable Surface
[Tech]
2019/12/17 09:07
Interactive display guides users by getting sticky.We've already seen tactile-feedback displays that convey information by applying tiny vibrations to the user's fingertips. An experimental new technology takes a different approach, however – it gets sticky in select areas.Appropriately known as StickyTouch, the system is being developed by scientists at Japan's Osaka University.In its present...
(M&A) Apple Buys UK Photography Start-Up Spectral Edge
[Investing]
2019/12/17 09:07
Apple has bought Spectral Edge, a Cambridge-based photography technology start-up, the tech giant confirmed on Friday.Spectral Edge, which was spun out of a University of East Anglia research lab in 2014, specialises in software that fuses together multiple versions of the same image to improve photo quality, including versions taken on the invisible infrared spectrum.Doing so typically introdu...
