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(Paper) MIT's Electronic Shirt Tracks Wearers' Vitals
[Tech]
2020/04/27 09:09
MIT researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration, and heart rate.The sensor-embedded garments, which are machine washable, can be customized to fit close to the body of the person wearing them. The researchers envision that this...
Gallery Pioneers Remote Art Tours via Robots - Hastings Contemporary
[Business]
2020/04/27 09:08
With galleries closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at Hastings Contemporary you can still get your art fix.As billions of people around the world remain in lockdown as protection against the coronavirus pandemic, museums and galleries around the world have expanded their online presence. One small gallery in southern England, Hastings Contemporary, has now taken remote content one step further...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How the Packaging Industry can Navigate the Coronavirus Pandemic
[Business]
2020/04/27 09:07
The industry is a key player as consumers and other sectors adapt to the COVID-19 outbreak. Here is a three-step plan that can help packaging companies through the crisis.As the coronavirus outbreak has spread and its humanitarian impact has grown, industries that help provide for essential needs, such as getting food and required supplies safely to consumers, are increasingly affected. With fo...
Fraunhofer - Robotic System will Work with Humans to Inspect Welds
[Tech]
2020/04/27 09:06
Robots are being deployed in more and more situations, many of which involve collaboration between humans and robots – for example relieving humans of onerous tasks in the workplace. The challenges are how to integrate the robot into the working environment and how to operate it. In a joint project with Volkswagen AG the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HH...
Tea Chain Uses Live Streaming and Influencer to Launch Line During COVID-19
[Business]
2020/04/27 09:05
The livestream on Taobao sold nearly 3,000 sets in the first second, and more than 10,000 units by the end of the broadcast. Naixue teamed up with e-Commerce live streamer Zhang Dayi and her BigEve beauty brand.After taking a big hit from the coronavirus outbreak, tea chain Naixue Tea has collaborated with Alibaba local delivery service affiliates and e-Commerce live streamer, Zhang Dayi, to la...
COVID-19 and the Emerging-Market Consumer : 5 Trends to Watch
[Consumer]
2020/04/27 09:04
COVID-19 has raced around the globe without regard for borders or the background of its victims, yet the pandemic is affecting consumers in emerging markets differently from their counterparts in mature markets. Emerging-market consumers are both fearful and guardedly optimistic. This yin-and-yang tension is shaped by the character of these markets, with their swelling numbers of middle-class a...
'Hide' Washing Machine's Door Slides Inwards to Save Space in Small Homes
[Design]
2020/04/27 09:03
I’m not entirely sure if washing machine execs have noticed but most homes don’t really have massive laundry rooms.Unless you’re in a bungalow with a sprawling basement, chances are your laundry room is pretty tiny, and doesn’t offer enough extra space after you put in your machine, hamper, and ironing board. The Hide washing machine is pretty mindful of that fact and does something that’s...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Digital Strategy in a Time of Crisis
[Business]
2020/04/26 09:10
The future is not what it used to be: Thoughts on the shape of the next normal.If the pace of the pre-coronavirus world was already fast, the luxury of time now seems to have disappeared completely. Businesses that once mapped digital strategy in one- to three-year phases must now scale their initiatives in a matter of days or weeks.In one European survey, about 70 percent of executives from Au...
(Patent) The Apple Watch Could Soon Know When You're Driving
[Tech]
2020/04/26 09:09
Apple patent revealed a program for its Apple Watch that would restrict what notifications the wrist-mounted mini-computer displays when its determines that its wearer is behind the wheel. The patent, which was granted by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office on Thursday and dug up by 9to5Mac, would enable a "wearable device" (which, in Apple's world these days, pretty much means the Apple Wat...
