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The Future of Sports Is Interactive, Immersive and Intense
[Business]
2019/03/26 09:08
As more sports leagues opt for digital broadcast options, the whole idea of what it means to watch a game is going to change.The way you watch sports is about to change: A concept video for Microsoft’s HoloLens headset showed how you might one day watch the game while tracking in-game stats and a player’s running speed.Being a sports fan used to mean plopping down on the couch—or, if you wer...
Your Earbuds Will Become Your Most Powerful Health Monitor
[Tech]
2019/03/26 09:07
Outfitting headphones and earbuds with sensors will make them an ideal way to keep track of your health.Forget Fitbits and smart watches. In the next few years, the most advanced fitness and medical monitor will be your headphones. Smart headphones, or “hearables,” will do way more than pump up the bass—they’ll monitor your heartbeat, detect when you’re stressed, and track your brain waves...
(PDF) BCG - The Dividends of Digital Marketing Maturity
[Business]
2019/03/26 09:07
The hallmark of an effective digital marketer is the ability to deliver the right message to the right person at the right time in the right place. Combining data and digital technologies can increase the relevance of advertising, services, and offers for a brand’s customers and can do so at scale. Advanced technologies that apply the latest in automation, artificial intelligence, and machine...
Turn Your Smartphone Into a Medical Diagnostics Microscope - Diagnoz.me
[Tech]
2019/03/26 09:06
Israel’s Diagnoz.me proposes a new home-based approach to diagnosing infections: a disposable smartphone add-on that analyzes bodily fluid samples.If your eye is oozing and red and you suspect you have an infection, you have to make an appointment with your doctor and get a lab analysis before you can start treatment with antibiotics.Physicist-turned-biologist Ariel Livne wondered if the whole...
Autonomous Courier System as the Future of Delivering Packages
[Design]
2019/03/26 09:04
‘Pac’ is a personal, autonomous concierge system imagined by fynn.design as the future of delivering packages.The project seeks to transform the current mode of parcel transportation as currently many do not reach their destinations and couriers are contributing to a large percentage of urban congestion. this proposal imagines parcel distribution of the future by creating a driverless service...
(Infographic) What Consumers Really Want From Brands’ Content
[Consumer]
2019/03/26 09:03
Consumers are more likely to purchase from a company that provides consistent, relevant content. Information, not perfection.Brands that want to garner consumer trust might want to steer clear of Photoshop when working on their content, new data from digital experience platform WP Engine and The Center for Generational Kinetics suggests.Brands that want to garner consumer trust might want to st...
(PDF) PwC - Global Consumer Insights Survey 2019
[Consumer]
2019/03/25 09:10
It's time for a consumer-centred metric: introducing 'return on experience'.PwC’s 10th annual Global Consumer Insights Survey (GCIS) — which gathers the sentiments of more than 21,000 online consumers in 27 territories — shows that in addition to the traditional return on investment (ROI) metrics used to determine a company’s success, we need to introduce another metric, one with a laser fo...
(Paper) Mobile Bedside Bioprinter Can Heal Wounds
[Tech]
2019/03/25 09:09
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists have created such a mobile skin bioprinting system—the first of its kind—that allows bi-layered skin to be printed directly into a wound.Imagine a day when a bioprinter filled with a patient's own cells can be wheeled right to the bedside to treat large wounds or burns by printing skin, layer by layer, to begin the healing pro...
(Infographic) The Geography of the World’s 50 Top Billionaires
[Investing]
2019/03/25 09:08
The business world has undergone considerable change in the last two decades.While some fortunes are always reliably passed on to their respective heirs and heiresses, there are also entirely new industries that rise out of nowhere to shape the landscape of global wealth.As the wealth landscape shifts, so does its geographical distribution.The 2019 List of BillionairesToday’s chart uses data f...
