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The Smart Garden : Your Solution for Better Food
[Product]
2016/11/23 11:04
Meet the future of food. This Smart Garden grows fresh food for you containing up to 600% more antioxidants with zero effort.This is a new Smart Garden which created by Click & Grow. The latest smart food growing system to be added to their range takes the form of the Smart Garden 9, which the development team say has been meticulously designed to provide a self growing garden that has revo...
Christophe Guinet Turns Vintage Apple Computers Into Pots for Exotic Plants
[Design]
2016/11/23 11:03
‘Disconnect and think nature!’ proclaims artist christophe guinet, aka mr. plant, in regards to his latest botanical art series. ‘plant your mac’ seeks to denounce our exceedingly tech-connected society by integrating elements from the nature directly into some of the world’s most recognized devices — apple products. mr.plant has converted a series of macintosh computer models — mostly...
(PDF) Pew - The Gig Economy : Work, Online Selling and Home Sharing
[Consumer]
2016/11/22 09:52
24% of Americans report earning money from the digital ‘platform economy’ in the past year. The extra income they make is a luxury for some, but a necessity for others.From neighborhood handymen to freelance computer programmers, Americans have long taken on piecemeal work in lieu of (or in addition to) traditional salaried employment. But today a variety of apps and online platforms are maki...
(Patent) Apple Wants to Put Siri in Your Messages
[Tech]
2016/11/22 09:52
You may someday have another participant in your group messaging chats: Siri.An Apple patent application published Nov. 17 describes how Siri could be pulled into iMessage chats to help with scheduling and making payments. Any of the participants in a conversation can choose to bring in Siri to assist people with tasks, the filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office says.When summoned to a...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How The Convergence of Automotive and Tech will Create a New Ecosystem
[Business]
2016/11/22 09:52
As the high-tech and automotive worlds merge—with four disruptive technology trends driving change—a complex ecosystem is creating new rules for success.As four technology trends reshape the global automotive sector, customer preferences are moving away from its traditional strongholds, such as chassis and engine development. This shift in customer preferences and the sheer size of the automo...
Tobacco Teeth
[Design]
2016/11/22 09:35
I Created This Ad Campaign To Raise Awareness Of Harmful Smoking Effects.I have made this visual as an example of a campaign with a goal to raise awareness of the harmful effects of tobacco.[boredpanda]
(Video) New Ford Petextrian Detector Will Warn Drivers of Crazy People Walking and Talking
[Tech]
2016/11/22 09:35
Ford has introduced Pre-Collision Assist with Pedestrian Detection technology, where a windshield mounted camera, “taught to classify different vehicle and pedestrian scenarios and designed to work at up to 80km/h, works alongside radar located near the bumper, picking up shape reflections and feeding data into a unique Ford algorithm.” It will beep and warn the driver of a collision, and if...
The Fastest Unicorns : From First Financing to Billion Dollar Valuations
[Investing]
2016/11/22 09:35
Snapchat and Magic Leap are among the companies to achieve unicorn status the fastest.[click to enlarge]Building a billion-dollar business is no easy feat. For many companies that process can take decades, but some companies are able to do it much quicker. This can be because of how hot a space is, the pedigree of the founders, the company achieving viral growth, or any number of reasons. We us...
(Video) Holst Centre Introduces Next Generation Health Patch
[Tech]
2016/11/22 09:35
Holst Centre introduced their next generation health patch during electronica, an international electronic trade show held Nov. 8-11 in Munich, Germany. Holst Centre is a research and development institution founded by the collaboration between imec and TNO. Their innovative health patch accurately and remotely monitors the user’s cardiac and physical activity as well as bioelectrical impedanc...
(Video) Panasonic Invents Multi-Lingual Megaphone Translator - Megahonyaku
[Tech]
2016/11/22 09:35
Panasonic developed the device dubbed “The Megahonyaku,” a portmanteau that plays on the Japanese words for “megaphone” and translation. It comes with 300 or so phrases that it can understand, and, if you’d prefer not to speak, you can select which command you’d like using a touchscreen. Some of the phrases include “Please form a single line,” and “the train has been delayed,” but use...
Companies Try Out Selfies as Password Alternatives
[Business]
2016/11/21 17:18
Facial-recognition apps use smartphone snapshots to verify identity of customers, taxpayers.Selfies, long derided as a symbol of narcissism and oversharing, have found a more serious purpose.Companies and government agencies—ranging from the ride-hailing service Uber Technologies Inc. and credit-card giant MasterCard Inc. to the Alabama Department of Revenue—are asking people to snap self-por...
(PDF) Brilliant Mod Makes Smartwatches Actually Useful - ViBand
[Tech]
2016/11/21 17:17
Back in October, an analysis of the smartwatch industry found that sales were plummeting. That was quickly rebuffed by a different analysis that said sales were rising. One thing is for sure, smartwatches are boring. But this one is pretty awesome.Using a custom smartwatch kernel, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have altered the sampling rate of a smartwatch accelerometer to 4 kHz rat...
