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Bone-Conducting Bracelet Lets You Make Payments, Phone Calls and Tracks Your Health
[Product]
2019/07/25 09:09
Get uses bone conduction technology which passes audio through the bones of your wrist, to your finger tip, which then conducts it directly to your ear’s cochlea via your skull.It looks like an elegant fitness tracker and acts like a smartwatch, yet it has has no buttons nor a screen. It also plays audio when you touch your finger to your ear and is controlled entirely via customizable gesture...
2019 Global Start-Up Ecosystem Report
[Business]
2019/07/25 09:08
During the past decade, much of the discussion about start-up ecosystems has been centered on the question of which city or region will become “the next Silicon Valley”. Although there are several places with promising growth trajectories, we frankly think this view is short-sided. It implies there needs to be a new champion overshadowing the old one.In fact, there will be no “next Silicon V...
(Paper) Wearable Device Harvests Energy from Bending of the Knee
[Tech]
2019/07/25 09:07
As compared to most other joints in the human body, the knee has quite a large range of motion … so why not put that motion to use, as a source of electricity? That's what a new prototype device does, and it reportedly does not cause its wearer to expend more energy while walking.Developed by scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the 307-gram (0.7-lb) device incorporates a slider-...
Digi-Capital Games Investment Report Q3 2019
[Investing]
2019/07/25 09:06
Digi-Capital’s new Games Investment Report Q3 2019 shows that after a record $5.8 billion games investment in 2018, VC and strategic games investors poured another $3.8 billion into games companies in the first half of 2019.This makes the last 18 months games fundraising equal to the previous five years’ games investments combined at $9.6 billion. If games investors continue at a similar rate...
The Future of Music - Mubert
[Product]
2019/07/25 09:05
Mubert is the futuristic music app that uses AI to generate unique music personally to each listener. Use likes and dislikes to teach Mubert about your musical preferences. Also you can save the favorite moments and share them via Instagram or Snapchat.IN THE 1950S, experimental composer John Cage began to explore what would happen if some parts of a musical composition were left to chance. Mus...
Nicholas Baker’s Chair Designs will Surely Inspire You to Create
[Design]
2019/07/25 09:04
This fun concrete/metal chair created for a workshop at Purdue IDSA commemorates the 100th chair sketch created by Baker. Every product design lover must have come across this rapid sketch along with a video of ingenious chair designs, with concepts that make you think anything in the range from ‘why didn’t I think of that’ to ‘I wish I could own that chair!’ These design creations are the...
(Infographic) 12 Influential Smart Home Inventions, and Why They Matter
[Product]
2019/07/25 09:03
Being influential doesn’t always translate to direct commercial success.This pattern is the most visible in the music industry, in which many trendsetting bands often fail to achieve mainstream popularity. Artists like the Dead Kennedys, Kraftwerk, and Captain Beefheart all pioneered genres, but this translated to limited amounts of fame and fortune.Such a paradigm can also be seen in technolo...
Animal Selfies Come to the Rescue in WWF Japan Campaign
[Business]
2019/07/24 09:10
WWF JAPAN wanted to propose a new solution that would allow people to think about and make donations toward environmental issues easier. The idea developed by ADK Creative One Japan/CHERRY centered on selfies, which are popular via SNS all over the world.Japanese people have significantly low concern toward environmental issues (donations per household are 1/108 of western countries),The concep...
(PDF) DeepMind’s AI Learns to Generate Realistic Videos by Watching YouTube Clips
[Tech]
2019/07/24 09:09
Perhaps you’ve heard of FaceApp, the mobile app that taps AI to transform selfies, or This Person Does Not Exist, which surfaces computer-generated photos of fictional people. But what about an algorithm whose videos are wholly novel? One of the newest papers from Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind (“Efficient Video Generation on Complex Datasets”) details recent advances in the budd...
