Fina is a plywood kayak designed for better storage – no special parking spot or carriers required! Created out of plywood, this kayak was inspired by the designer’s trip to Venice, Italy, where she wanted to sail the canals with her sister but didn’t have space to store a two-seater kayak without paying for a bigger parking spot. “After all the calculations to achieve my desired aesthetic...

Raising the bar on AI in customer experience.From robots delivering our groceries to the ability to take a car for a virtual test drive, AI offers seemingly countless, innovative ways to meet growing desire to avoid human or touchscreen contact in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s no wonder then that over three-quarters of customers expect to increase the use of touchless interfaces – s...

Apple's Project Titan covers a body of patents relating to a future vehicle that the company is working on. The project is massive and you can review Apple's patents on this subject matter here.One of the ongoing Project Titan sub-projects relates to the creation of adjustable windows that have adjustable layers such as adjustable tint layers, adjustable reflectivity layers, and adjustable haze...

Chinese electronic company xiaomi has unveiled the Mi TV LUX transparent edition, the world’s first mass-produced transparent TV.Featuring an edge-to-edge transparent self-luminous display, the TV transmits images that seem to be suspended in the air, creating a new way to consume visual content previously seen only in movies. priced at RMB 49,999 (about USD$7,200), this see-through TV follows...

These are not your father’s picking robots.A “piece-picking” solution from RightHand Robotics and Intel RealSense Technologies automates a warehouse process that has come to define the e-commerce era: the need to pick single items individually at an increasingly rapid pace.In the not-too-distant past, most retail orders fulfilled by warehouses were fairly straightforward — distribution cent...

The number of apartments for rent, or listing inventory, more than doubled over last year and set a record for the 14 years since data started being collected, according to a report from Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel.- While hundreds of thousands of residents left the city in March and April in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, brokers and landlords hoped many would start returning...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology helping us to reimagine daily life, but artificial intelligence (AI) is the real driving force behind the IoT’s full potential.From its most basic applications of tracking our fitness levels, to its wide-reaching potential across industries and urban planning, the growing partnership between AI and the IoT means that a smarter future could occur soo...

Smart nightlight that detects potential problems. Communicate directly without relying on a phone.CES 2020 Innovation Award winner. The best gift you can give Mom and Dad.- Plug in like a nightlight. Use as a flashlight in the event of a power outage.- Equipped with learning sensors that detect motion, sound, temperature, air quality, humidity, vibration and volatile organic compounds. - Comes...

It just makes perfect sense, given the fact that Google announced its plan to acquire Fitbit in 2019, and that Google still doesn’t have a horse in the smartwatch race, while its competitor Apple currently occupies more than half the smartwatch market share. Google famously entered the smartphone industry with the Pixel, its first entirely ‘Made by Google’ smartphone. The Pixel smartphone we...