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(Paper) MIT's SensorSnaps : Integrating Wireless Sensor Nodes into Fabric Snap Fasteners
[Tech]
2020/01/07 09:08
SensorSnaps are low-power wireless sensor nodes that seamlessly integrate into caps of fabric snap fasteners.SensorSnaps provide a new technique to quickly and intuitively augment any location on the clothing with sensing capabilities. SensorSnaps securely attach and detach from ubiquitous commercial snap fasteners. Using inertial measurement units, the SensorSnaps detect tap and rotation gestu...
CES 2020 - Bosch's LCD Car Visor Only Blocks Your View of the Road Where the Sun Is In Your Eyes
[Tech]
2020/01/07 09:07
Fully autonomous vehicles are already being tested on roads across the country, but there’s one feature in every car that feels like it hasn’t been upgraded in a century: the sun visor. So a group of engineers from Bosch set out to update this antiquated feature so that it blocks the sun without also blocking a driver’s view of the road.It’s a problem that every driver experiences at at lea...
How Amazon Makes Its Money
[Business]
2020/01/07 09:06
Here's a breakdown of Amazon's revenue from across its e-commerce and retail ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, streaming services, consumer devices, advertising business, and beyond.Amazon is unique among giant US tech corporations. It's not just an e-commerce and shopping giant, a cloud provider, a device-maker, or a software-and-services platform—it's also a money-making leviathan with tentac...
(Video) MIT Scientists Formed Embr Labs and Developed the Wave Bracelet
[Product]
2020/01/07 09:05
This wearable smart thermostat promises to make frigid environments—and overly warm ones, too—seem more comfortable.EVEN EVEN-TEMPERED people have a tendency to run too hot or too cold, an affliction often exacerbated by the lack of personal temperature controls in offices or planes, at the movies and in the gym.After one too many days spent shivering in their own workshop, three MIT scientis...
(Paper) Full Noncontact Laser Ultrasound : First Human Data
[Tech]
2020/01/07 09:04
CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS, FINE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.For most patients, ultrasound is a relatively painless procedure. Conventional ultrasound is safe, low-cost, non-ionizing, and one of the most commonly used imaging modalities worldwide. In a typical exam, a clinician presses an ultrasound probe with gel on the skin surface to generate an image at the desired...
(Infographic) Consumers Are Turning to Telehealth and Innovative Mobile Medicine Services
[Consumer]
2020/01/07 09:03
Reaching an engaged audience by advertising on a variety of digital platforms. Users of online pharmacies and telehealth apps are, on average, in their mid-30s and see themselves as early adopters.From accessing medical records to speaking to physicians, Americans are turning to mobile medicine as a supplement to healthcare coverage. Users are taking advantage of innovative mobile medicine serv...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Defending Southeast Asian Consumer-Company Value in a Digital Age
[Business]
2020/01/06 09:10
Consumer expectations and new technologies are rapidly changing revenues and profits in the consumer-packaged-goods market. Incumbent companies can prepare by adjusting their business models.Consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies in Southeast Asia might one day look at today’s market as the lull before the storm. While online purchases of physical goods have been slow to catch on in the regio...
BBC Billboard Ads for Dracula Reveal a Secret Message after Dark
[Design]
2020/01/06 09:09
A series of stakes seemingly organized at random create a shadow of a growling Dracula after sunset.Great advertising is art, and we can all recognize great art when we see it. This was exactly the case with BBC's latest billboard ad for Dracula.Billboards with fangsThe giant billboards placed in both Birmingham and London feature a series of what seem like random bloody stakes. The posters are...
(Infographic) The Best and Worst Performing Sectors in 2019
[Investing]
2020/01/06 09:08
If you think back almost 12 months, you’ll remember that the markets opened the year with extreme levels of volatility.Stocks had just finished the worst year in a decade. Then in early January, Apple cut its earnings guidance after the company had already lost over $400 billion in market capitalization. The S&P 500 and DJIA seesawed, suggesting that the lengthy bull run could come to an e...
