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The New Age of Womens’ Soccer - The Adidas Turf Soccer
[Design]
2016/11/02 10:35
The Adidas Turf Soccer cleats concepts has a clear target audience.The designer noticed an increasing trend in Women’s Soccer world over, and with Berlin being the women’s soccer stronghold, the Turf Soccer cleats target this new and upcoming demographic. The design is all about efficiency, even taking into account seemingly minor details like preventing turf crumb from slipping into the shoe...
(PDF) Google - Supercharging Style Transfer
[Tech]
2016/11/01 10:43
Pastiche. A French word, it designates a work of art that imitates the style of another one (not to be confused with its more humorous Greek cousin, parody). Although it has been used for a long time in visual art, music and literature, pastiche has been getting mass attention lately with online forums dedicated to images that have been modified to be in the style of famous paintings. Using a t...
(PDF) BCG - The Power of Technology Economics
[Business]
2016/11/01 10:43
Despite its starring role in business and everyday life, many economists openly question whether technology is visible in traditional economic metrics such as GDP, productivity, and corporate profits. In this report, The Boston Consulting Group shows that, on the contrary, declines in technology investment are followed by startling drops in all these measures of economic growth.Whenever compani...
Mazda MX-5 is Put On a Stricter Diet for SEMA 2016
[Design]
2016/11/01 10:43
The Mazda MX-5 Speedster Evolution is one of two concepts to be shown at SEMA 2016.When Mazda first whipped the covers off the Mk4 MX-5 Miata, it focused on how light the car was. Weight loss was once again on the agenda at SEMA 2015, with the Speedster and Spyder both shaving precious kilos from the package, but the lightweight fascination didn't end there. SEMA 2016 will play host to a more s...
Prices Skyrocketing, But Only For Things You Actually Need
[Business]
2016/11/01 10:43
Everything else has fallen in price over the years.The way that economic data is presented, we often think of inflation as a singular number representing a general increase in prices.For example, it might be reported that nominal GDP growth was 3%, and that inflation was 2%. Since the inflation represents a rise in price levels, we subtract it from the nominal rate to get a real GDP growth of 1...
Toyota is Testing a Smart Key Box That Makes it Easier to Share Your Car with Strangers
[Tech]
2016/11/01 10:42
Toyota is the latest car manufacturer looking into the sharing economy, thanks to its development of what it calls a “mobility services platform.” The first product it’s experimenting with is a Smart Key Box, which promises to transform vehicles so they can be shared with anyone using a mobile device.To test its theory and see if its Smart Key Box can gain any traction, Toyota has teamed up...
(Video) The World's First All-Electric Mobile Office - Nissan e-NV200 WORKSPACe
[Product]
2016/11/01 10:42
Nissan e NV200 WORKSPACe electric mobile office: the japanese-automaker has collaborated with UK-based design workshop studio hardie to transform its zero emission ‘e-NV200′ van into the world’s first all-electric mobile office–the ‘e-NV200 workspace’. this professional office environment on wheels features an integrated fold-out desk; touchscreen computer; wireless internet; wireless pho...
(Video) Language Learning Device of the Future - Mersiv
[Design]
2016/11/01 10:42
The single best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in the society where that language is native, however, very few have the luxury of being able to do this! Mersiv is a modern language-learning device that brings the same type of immersive learning to you, wherever you are!Mersiv utilizes a camera, microphone and headphones to identify and tailor unique micro language lessons direct...
(Infographic) The Critical Ingredients Needed to Fuel the Battery Boom
[Tech]
2016/11/01 10:00
The Battery Series is a five-part infographic series that explores what investors need to know about modern battery technology, including raw material supply, demand, and future applications.Infographic : http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/battery-series-raw-materials.jpg[visualcapitalist]
(PDF) KPMG - 2016 Fintech 100 : Leading Global Fintech Innovators
[Business]
2016/11/01 00:10
The Fintech 100 offers an in-depth view of the most exciting startups and organisations taking advantage of technology to revolutionise the industry. The financial services industry is facing a wave of digital disruption that is starting to reshape the sector. The Fintech 100 celebrates the top companies this bold new space: the 50 leading established players creating change within financial se...
(PDF) Google’s AI Creates Its Own Inhuman Encryption
[Tech]
2016/11/01 00:09
What happens when you tell two smart computers to talk to each other in secret and task another AI with breaking that conversation? You get one of the coolest experiments in cryptography I’ve seen in a while.In short, Google Brain researchers have discovered that the AI, when properly tasked, create oddly inhuman cryptographic schemes and that they’re better at encrypting than decrypting. The...
(PDF) Pwc : 2016 Global Innovation 1000 Study - Software-as-a-Catalyst
[Business]
2016/11/01 00:08
The world’s largest innovators are shifting the focus of their R&D investments from products to programming. [click to enlarge]Throughout its nearly 180-year history, John Deere has been an innovation leader. Its first product was a polished-steel plow that outperformed existing tools. And over the decades, the company’s research and development (R&D) efforts were aimed squarely at im...
