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The Butterfly Tea Bags
[Design]
2019/11/04 00:04
Designer Yena Lee has come up with a way of setting your tea cup aflutter. Her lovely butterfly tea bags are designed to do more than just be pleasing to the eye. The black and yellow butterfly actually holds your tea bag in place.Designer : Yena Lee[yenalee]
Monthly Trend Report - November. 2019 Edition
[Trendbird]
2019/11/04 00:03
MONTHLY TREND REPORT - November. 2019 Edition Released !TRENDBIRD (What's the Next Big Thing ?) is a Global Trend Research & Consulting Service that Instantly Delivers Industry Expert Information on Emerging Trends & Future Business Opportunities from Around the World, Ahead of The Curve." Browse By TOPIC AI 5G Blockchain VR/AR Retail 2.0 Millennial China Robot Car Marketing HealthBrows...
(PDF) Deloitte - 2019 Holiday Retail Survey
[Business]
2019/10/29 00:10
It’s looking like another cheerful holiday season for retail in 2019. Explore what our 34th annual holiday retail survey, which polled 4,410 respondents across the United States, reveals about consumers’ perceptions, attitudes, and holiday shopping behaviors.Download PDF Report : https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/6382_2019-holiday-survey/DI_2019-holiday-survey.pdf[del...
(Patent) Facebook Seeks Patent for Auto-Completion for Gesture-Input in Assistant Systems
[Tech]
2019/10/29 00:09
Facebook seeks patent for auto-completion for gesture-input in assistant systems.US patent application 20190324527 discloses a method for receiving incomplete gestures performed by a user, determining intent corresponding to the incomplete gesture, and sending instructions for presenting suggested inputs corresponding to a predefined candidate gesture to the client system. Figure illustrates a...
(Paper) Google is Training Graph Neural Networks to Predict Smells
[Tech]
2019/10/29 00:07
A team of chemistry, life science, and AI researchers are using graph neural networks to identify molecules and predict smells. Models made by researchers outperform current state-of-the-art approaches and the top-performing model from the DREAM Olfaction Prediction Challenge, a competition for mapping the chemical properties of odors.The work was created by researchers from Google, Canadian In...
(PDF) BCG - Unleashing Innovation in the Middle Billion Economies
[Investing]
2019/10/29 00:07
Innovation has always played an important role in both developed and developing economies. Breakthroughs in advanced economies, in domains ranging from computing and communications to new materials, have had far-reaching effects, setting in motion cycles of production that have created manufacturing jobs and new occupations in ancillary industries across the developing world. In some cases, the...
The Foldable Dehumidifier has a Bellow-Shaped Water Tank That Expands
[Design]
2019/10/29 00:06
The Foldable Dehumidifier is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2019.A characteristic part of every dehumidifier is its water-tank, which pulls water vapor from the air to reduce its humidity. This water vapor condenses to turn into droplets of water that get collected within the dehumidifier, needing periodic emptying out. The bigger the tank, the more its capacity, and...
(Video) 'Invisibility Cloak' That Could Hide Tanks and Troops Looks Closer to Reality
[Tech]
2019/10/29 00:05
Canada’s Hyperstealth Biotechnology already manufactures camouflage uniforms for militaries across the globe.But now, the company has patented a new “Quantum Stealth” material that disguises a military’s soldiers — or even its tanks, aircraft, and ships — by making anything behind it seem invisible.Light BenderEarlier in October, Hyperstealth filed a patent for the material, which doesn’...
Shipping Containers Stacked Five High to Create London Hotel
[Design]
2019/10/29 00:04
The Stow-Away Hotel includes 20 container-based hotel rooms.Shipping containers have been used for a wide range of projects, from tiny houses to apartment buildings, and, despite their limitations, continue to spark the imaginations of architects. The latest example of this comes from UK design studio Doone Silver Kerr, which used the metal boxes to create a hotel in London.Located in Waterloo,...
