TREND REPORTS
(Video) Beyond Touch : Tomorrow’s Devices Will Use MEMS Ultrasound to Hear Your Gestures
[Tech]
2016/11/24 11:08
Touch screens are on the way out; piezoelectric gesture control is on the way in.Today, we control our electronic world by touch—we tap, we swipe, we pinch and zoom. The touch interface went from being a novelty back in 2007, when Apple first brought it to the iPhone, to a ubiquitous feature in less than a decade. It is so commonplace that toddlers declare nontouch displays broken when the scr...
(Video) Gatorade and Spotify Have Teamed Up To Soundtrack Your Workouts
[Business]
2016/11/24 11:07
Gatorade Amplify aims to serve up personalized playlists to pump you up.Gatorade Amplify is a brand integration with Spotify that creates a personalized soundtrack based on the type of workout you want using data analysis of your music preferences.WHY WE CARE: This is a unique collaboration in that it's pretty on-brand for Gatorade—working out makes you sweat, non?—and takes the same type of...
On A Dark Street, You Can Summon These Drones To Light Your Way Home - Fleetlights
[Design]
2016/11/24 11:06
Fleetlights are streetlights that travel with you.If you get off the train from work late at night and have to walk or bike down dark streets, a U.K. insurance company wants you to be able to call up a small fleet of drones to accompany you—acting as lights that fly with you to illuminate your path home.Fleetlights, a prototype service, is designed to be summoned with a mobile app, and uses so...
(Video) This Augmented Reality Sensor Can Measure Your House - Canvas
[Product]
2016/11/24 11:05
Canvas is a new app and advanced sensor that uses augmented reality to create 3D images of your space directly from your mobile device.Until now, there has never been an easy way to accurately measure physical spaces without the assistance of a professional. Enter Canvas, a first-of-its-kind mobile application that works with an augmented reality sensor designed specifically for home improvemen...
VRchitecture : How IrisVR Is Bringing One-Click Virtual Reality to Revit and Rhino
[Tech]
2016/11/24 11:04
Virtual reality is often imagined as a form of technologically induced immersive experience with the ability to revolutionize the world of video games, news reporting and the overall film industry. However, a few companies specializing in VR software are making strides in engineering a product that fits within the work-flow of the architecture and construction industries, where the use of virtu...
(Video) Stories Wrapped Around Wine Bottles Let You Read And Sip
[Product]
2016/11/24 11:03
An Italian winery paired up with a product design agency to create wine that comes with short stories.Nothing says relaxation more than reading with a glass of vino in hand. The Matteo Correggia winery is looking to provide both by partnering with design agency Reverse Innovation to create Librottiglia—wine bottles with short stories wrapped around them.Each story is chosen specifically to pai...
(Patent) Apple Patents Foldable iPhone with Flexible Display That Can Clip Onto Clothing
[Tech]
2016/11/23 11:11
An Apple patent published Tuesday reveals the company has for years been actively investigating a hinged iPhone format, with designs calling for a flexible metal-backed OLED display capable of being folded in half. As granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple's U.S. Patent No. 9,504,170 for "Flexible display devices" describes an iPhone with a foldable full-screen display. Like cla...
(PDF) Bain - Customer Behavior and Loyalty in Insurance : Global Edition 2016
[Business]
2016/11/23 11:10
From tracking drivers’ braking behavior to installing wearable devices on factory workers and funding medical-advice mobile apps, many insurance companies are trying to become more present in their customers’ lives.They know that improving the long-term economics of the business will require interacting more and delivering more value to customers. A customer-centered approach has finally gain...
Researchers Generate 3-D Virtual Reality Models of Unborn Babies
[Tech]
2016/11/23 11:09
Parents may soon be able to watch their unborn babies grow in realistic 3-D immersive visualizations, thanks to new technology that transforms MRI and ultrasound data into a 3-D virtual reality model of a fetus, according to research being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).MRI provides high-resolution fetal and placental imaging with e...
Worldwide Market for Used Smartphones Forecast to Grow to 222.6 Million Units in 2020
[Business]
2016/11/23 11:07
A new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that the market for used smartphones will grow from 81.3 million devices in 2015 to 222.6 million units in 2020, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.3%.The market for used and refurbished smartphones has witnessed rapid growth over the past several years, thanks to a wide variety of trade-in and buyback progr...
(Video) New Wireless Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor - MOCACuff
[Product]
2016/11/23 11:07
MOCACARE, a Silicon Valley company focused on developing consumer cardiovascular monitoring devices–with their flagship product, MOCAheart–just unveiled their cutting edge, wireless, and automatic wrist blood pressure monitor, MOCACuff. We at Medgadget were one of the first to test this new device to see what sets it apart from other currently available home blood pressure monitors. MOCACuff...
(Video) Genalyte's Developing Tests That Run on a Drop of Blood Just Raised $36M
[Investing]
2016/11/23 11:05
This Genalyte device contains multiple chips, each of which can measure for 128 different factors.Though Theranos may have brought a lot of negative headlines to the blood-testing industry over the last year, all is not lost for other companies hoping to "disrupt" the blood-testing industry.On Sunday, Genalyte, a company that's developing tests that run on a drop of blood, raised a $36 million...
