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Futurus Wants to Turn Your Car's Whole Windscreen Into an AR Display
[Tech]
2019/12/16 11:47
Futurus believes the cars of the near future will roll with all-singing, all-dancing augmented reality windscreens.Heads-up displays have all kinds of potential applications, but what if your car's entire windscreen was a gigantic mixed reality display, capable of overlaying all manner of graphics and animations over the view forward and even acting as a movie screen for passengers?Beijing-base...
Personalized 3D-Printed Vitamins - Nourished
[Product]
2019/12/16 11:47
British startup, Nourished, is using 3D-printing technology to make bespoke “stacks” of vitamins designed for individual customer needs. The chewy vitamins are sweet and made of vegan gel. Nourished offers its customers several ways to choose its supplements. They can take an online quiz, designed to determine what types of nutrients the customer is most in need of. They can also create their...
The World Map of Clothing Exports
[Business]
2019/12/16 11:47
This Visualization Shows Where Your Clothes Come From.[click to enlarge]Think about the last time you checked the clothing tag on a new shirt that you bought. Did it say, “Made in China”? Or how about Vietnam or Bangladesh? There’s a good chance that your new shirt was manufactured in another country, especially one in east or south Asia. Our latest visualization takes a closer look at how c...
(Video) ExoLung Turns Body Motion Into "Unlimited" Underwater Air Supply
[Product]
2019/12/16 11:47
There's a lot of ground between puttering around with your face strapped to a snorkel and managing the dangers, equipment, certification and expenses of scuba diving. Surface-supplied diving systems fill some of this space by strapping you to a breathing hose that plunges deeper than a snorkel but without some of the complications of scuba. Typically these systems rely on some form of compresse...
(Infographic) The New Energy Era: The Lithium-Ion Supply Chain
[Business]
2019/12/16 11:47
The world is rapidly shifting to renewable energy technologies. Battery minerals are set to become the new oil, with lithium-ion battery supply chains becoming the new pipelines.China is currently leading this lithium-ion battery revolution—leaving the U.S. dependent on its economic rival. However, the harsh lessons of the 1970-80s oil crises have increased pressure on the U.S. to develop its...
(PDF) Deloitte - TMT Predictions 2020 : The Canopy Effect
[Business]
2019/12/15 09:30
DELOITTE’S 2020 TMT Predictions report contains three overarching themes. First, individual technologies are no longer siloed, but are becoming ever more connected and interdependent—and their impact and value are increasing as a result.Second, most of the TMT industry’s money is coming from smartphones, computers, TVs, enterprise data centers and software, and IoT (we call these the “Big F...
This Ingenious Airline Seat will Make Flying Coach Less Awful
[Design]
2019/12/15 09:09
Luke Miles never felt comfortable in an economy airline seat. As founder and CCO for the U.K. design studio New Territory, serving clients like Boeing, he had worked on concepts for airlines, including new plane layouts that radically rethink the interior design of aircraft. But flying on his own, and with his own family, he felt like the chairs on airlines weren’t just cramped, they were down...
Augmented Retail : The New Consumer Reality
[Consumer]
2019/12/15 09:08
Consumers today are increasingly craving immersive, real-life experiences. But they want these experiences without foregoing time or effort. The solution? Augmented and virtual reality (A/VR) technology, coming to a “store” near you.Many of us feel our lives getting busier. And according to a recent Nielsen global survey, nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents confirm it. They say that their...
Childcare Benefits Startup Kinside Launches with $4M
[Investing]
2019/12/15 09:07
Childcare is one of the biggest expenses for American parents — and it’s not just families that are taking a hit. Childcare issues cost the United States’ economy an estimated $4.4 billion in lost productivity each year and also impacts employee retention rates. Kinside wants to help with a platform that not only enables families to get the most out of their family care benefits, but also fi...
