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(Video) Sartoris Project Explores Amplifying Virtual Reality
[Design]
2016/10/17 10:27
Designers Ava Aghakouchak and Maria Paneta at Interactive Architecture Lab at UCL want us to experience virtual worlds with eyes wide open, but also with the additional sensation of the tactile sitting directly over our largest organ: our skin.In brief, Sarotis is a tactile sensory amplifier prosthetic – a piece of conceptual wearable technology designed to expand perception by adding a physic...
Amazon Eats the Department Store
[Business]
2016/10/16 11:10
Amazon is already the biggest clothing seller online. It might soon overtake most of its brick-and-mortar rivals in fashion sales, as well.There were no runway models on any Amazon catwalk at last week's New York Fashion Week. But the e-commerce giant still loomed large in the minds of retail executives watching it elbow its way into the fashion industry. For the past decade, fashion brands had...
Innovative Water-Gen Machine Harvests Up To 825 Gallons of Clean Water from Thin Air
[Tech]
2016/10/16 11:09
You might remember from grade school science class that water vapor is all around us, taking part in a continuous cycle that fills the clouds, lakes, and oceans with moisture. The people at Water-Gen have found a way to draw this moisture out of the air to produce clean drinking water for those who have none. The device can yield up to 825 gallons of water per day, making it a necessity for inh...
(PDF) What Brands With Growing Websites Do Differently
[Business]
2016/10/16 11:08
Brand websites that have had increases in visits over the past three years are more focused on advertising, social media, and email traffic than are sites that have had declines in visits, according to a recent report from Adobe.The report was based on 2Q13-2Q16 data from 800 billion visits to 800 brand websites in North America. The companies included in the analysis were in the media/entertai...
(Video) Self-Driving Tech Startup Optimus Ride (MIT-Spinoff) Raises $5.25M Seed Round
[Investing]
2016/10/16 11:07
With sights set on developing fully autonomous driving technology, MIT spinoff startup Optimus Ride has raised $5.25 million in seed funding, led by NextView Ventures and FirstMark Capital. With the funding, Boston-based Optimus Ride hopes to provide something unique to the self-driving technology market, powered by a team with over 30 years of collective experience in robotics, on-demand trans...
Ditching the Needle for a Less Painful Injection - Portal Instruments
[Product]
2016/10/16 11:06
Portal Instruments will pitch its injector for treatment of chronic diseases like MS, rheumatoid arthritis, and hemophilia.Title Chief executive officer of Portal Instruments, a 30-employee company in Cambridge, Mass.Form and function : Designed for patients to use on themselves, the needle-free injector delivers drugs through the skin using a small piston that the company says is less painful...
Uber and Lyft are Demolishing New York City Taxi Drivers
[Business]
2016/10/16 11:06
The price of taxi-cab medallions in New York seem to have hit a new low. Early this month, a medallion — basically the right to operate a yellow cab in New York — was listed for $250,000 on nycitycab.com.That's a stark contrast from 2014, when the value of a medallion was listed around $1.3 million.Medallions are tightly regulated, and you cannot operate a taxi in New York without one. They'r...
Thought-Provoking Child Labor Ads Remind You To Speak Up, Or It Will Never Stop
[Design]
2016/10/16 11:04
Child labor is very much a problem in certain parts of the world like Brazil and India—however, it’s rarely spoken or written about in the public eye. In this powerful campaign by Sao Paulo-based agency Agência Um, it reminds viewers to speak up about the problem, or it will never end. Using the lips of adults, the three ads show an illustration of a child with a heavy load on their heads. O...
Juice Disposable Charger : It’s a One-Time Use Charger to Stay Connected Wherever You Are
[Design]
2016/10/16 11:03
Large and bright screen of your smartphone sucks the power of battery in just hours, that’s why portable charger is very lucrative business on the market nowadays. Juice is a disposable charger, it powers your cell phone battery on-the-go, a device that you can count on to charge your phone anytime, anywhere. The compact size fits perfectly in your pocket or purse, it can charge your phone fro...
Understanding the Top Drivers Behind Shoppers' Store Choices
[Consumer]
2016/10/13 13:36
In today’s retail environment where dollar sales growth has been small and unit sales growth flat, the main driver of retail channel and retailers’ sales levels has been changes in store count. While an uptick in penetration will always be an important part of any retailer’s strategy, it’s not the only tool in their tool belt. Keeping current shoppers happy and engaged boosts competitive ad...
(Video) BMW's Self-Balancing Motorcycle of Tomorrow
[Design]
2016/10/13 10:56
BMW imagines motorcycle of the future.In the distant future, motorcycle riders will have no need of helmets or padded clothing. They also won't need to put their feet on the ground when they stop. That's because, according to BMW, the motorcycle of the future will balance itself and will help the driver avoid crashes.BMW, which is famous for motorcycles as well as cars, unveiled a new concept m...
(PDF) Disney's One-Legged Robot Hops Into Action Without a Tether
[Tech]
2016/10/13 10:56
The Disney hopping robot is the first to operate without a tether or outside power.Bipedal robots, such as Boston Dynamics' Atlas may be able to balance on one leg, but Disney Research has gone one better and built a one-legged hopping robot. This unidexter automaton isn't the first hopping robot, but it's the first to not rely on a tether or external power source to keep bouncing.Hopping robot...
