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Museum Offers Ultimate Interactive Exhibition : Sleeping in a Hopper Painting
[Design]
2019/12/05 10:13
At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, there's a particularly interactive exhibition involving famous American realist artist Edward Hopper. The special exhibit runs through February 23 and includes, for a lucky number of guests, an overnight in a Hopper painting."Western Motel," is the painting-turned-hotel room at the center of the months-long exhibition titled "Edward Hopper and th...
A VC Explains Why The Next Big Enterprise Startups will Come from India
[Investing]
2019/12/05 10:13
I spent the past 15 years in the US in enterprise engineering, product, and venture capital at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Google, and Andreessen Horowitz, before returning to India. I’m often asked how India compares to Silicon Valley, the hotbed of enterprise innovation.Besides the US, I feel world-class enterprise startups will come from India and here’s why.First, some market truths—mo...
Foodvisor Raises $4.5M to Track What You Eat Using AI
[Investing]
2019/12/05 10:13
French startup Foodvisor has raised a $4.5 million funding round after generating 2 million app downloads. Agrinnovation is leading the round and various business angels are also participating.I covered Foodvisor last month, so I’m not going to describe the app once again. In a few words, the startup uses deep learning to enable image recognition to detect what you’re about to eat. It can det...
Visualizing How Much Americans Spend on Holidays
[Consumer]
2019/12/05 10:13
Winter is the season for sleigh rides, chestnuts roasting on an open fire--and lots of holiday shopping. Holiday spending in November and December has seen a dramatic upswing since the 2008 recession. But how does spending for the winter holidays like Christmas stack up against spending for other holidays and events throughout the year? That’s the subject of our latest visualization.The winter...
Voxon's US$10,000 Hologram Table – No Glasses Required
[Product]
2019/12/05 10:12
Interactive 3D images that appear to float in the air, above a table that a group of people can stand around without needing any special headsets or glasses: that's what South Australian company Voxon Photonics has built with its US$10,000 VX1 table.Fiction has promised us holograms for decades, with one of the most famous examples appearing in 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope. On board the Millenn...
Older Women Are the Beauty Industry’s Next Potential Gold Mine
[Business]
2019/12/05 10:12
Demand for cosmetics among seniors in Japan is growing fast.At 99 years old, Kikue Fukuhara knows a thing or two about selling makeup to old people: She’s been talking about lotions, lipstick, and foundation for six decades. Fukuhara works for Pola Orbis Holdings Inc., one of Japan’s top cosmetics companies, and was recently recognized by Guinness as the world’s oldest beauty adviser. Her st...
(Infographic) 22% of Americans Will Be Heavy Buyers of DTC Brands
[Consumer]
2019/12/05 10:12
The number of Americans buying direct-to-consumer will grow nearly 20% in next 5 years. Both DTC and legacy brands have to reinvent themselves, advises Diffusion.More shoppers will buy from direct-to-consumer brands. Purchases are expected to grow in the next few years as Americans cut down on traditional retail in favor of DTC companies—especially in health, wellness and beauty (35%). Diffusi...
(Video) CES Las Vegas 2020 : Rinspeed’s “MetroSnap” Displays Innovative Solution
[Design]
2019/12/04 11:33
Rinspeed’s “MetroSnap” displays innovative solution for the key question of modular vehicle systems and mobility options.Frank M. Rinderknecht: “The crucial step towards series production has now been taken.”As the first company in the world, Swiss powerhouse of ideas Rinspeed demonstrated the “Snap” and the “microSNAP” at the CES in Las Vegas in the past two years, vehicles whose chas...
(PDF) Bain - Navigating the Route to Innovation
[Business]
2019/12/04 11:33
Leading companies pursue a process of constant innovation, fueled by openness, risk tolerance and an explorer’s mindset.- The most innovative companies have rapidly increased their market value relative to innovation laggards, according to Bain’s recent research.- Highly innovative companies take an ambitious portfolio approach, combining internal programs that cultivate new ideas with extern...
