Not only are traditional air conditioning units difficult to install, they’re also just plain ugly, and consumers have been resigned to merely tolerating both factors for far too long. But fear not: as the summer heat swells, the following direct-to-consumer (DTC) AC startups are here to provide modern consumers with refreshingly-designed units that offer consumers a cool new tool—literally.1...

Getting a good night's sleep is not normally listed among the joys of parenting, and anything that could help your baby and yourself catch some extra rest is worth a look. The Cradlewise cradle is designed to do just that, by automatically bouncing waking babies back to sleep.Utilizing a built-in night-vision camera and microphone, Cradlewise monitors baby and, over time, its artificial intelli...

Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has plans to colonize Mars, and thinks AI may turn humans into its pets. But beyond the hype and his enormous net worth and Twitter presence, here's how Musk's companies are actually taking on ... virtually every industry.Elon Musk thinks and acts on a larger, more cosmic scale than we’re accustomed to from entrepreneurs. Elon Musk has become a household n...

Openpath, a company that builds keyless and contactless building access systems, has raised $36 million in a series C round led by Greycroft. Openpath had previously raised around $27 million, and the company said its latest cash injection will be used to accelerate product engineering, hardware, and software development and “support its client base across new verticals.”Demand for contactles...

The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped industry megatrends in ways that will have major short- and long-term implications for packaging design.The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the megatrends buffeting the $900 billion-a-year packaging industry. As the world manages through—and begins to emerge from—the great public-health and economic crisis, we expect these megatrend shifts to change packag...

For those who can’t wait to check MUJI’s hotels off their bucket lists, this might be the closest alternative you can get until the COVID-19 situation subsides—but that’s not to say it’s any less superior. Those of us suffering from a post-lockdown urge to redecorate can now take out a Muji furniture subscription.The retailer will be offering monthly and annual options, which will cover of...

NextNav has figured out how to use barometric pressure sensors and other networks to determine what floor of a building a person is on when they’re calling from a skyscraper or other multi-floor building. And it does so using software that can work with sensors that have been in smartphones for years.The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted five-to-zero in favor of adding a requ...

The number of game investments and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2020 declined from the first quarter, but the value of the deals was higher, according to data collected by game investment specialist Sergei Evdokimov.These figures indicate the game market is continuing to experience vibrant growth through investor deals, as the world realizes how resilient video games have been during t...

An Indian company has developed a cheap and easy-to-install system that will allow users to avoid pushing elevator buttons.As employees return to work after the pandemic, one of the first hurdles they face is transportation; calling a lift requires pushing the elevator buttons, which carry the risk of passing on the virus. Indian IoT company Techmax Solution has an answer to this conundrum – c...