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The Right Kind of Wall - Split Washer
[Design]
2016/08/15 11:04
If you want to fully understand laundry woes, live the bachelor life. I’ve got like ten items of clothing in total and when I run a wash, I’d like to finish washing them all at once. Which means my woolens, whites, jeans, and colored clothes all have their little weekly pool party. My whites are this warm grey, my woolens look like ‘smelly cat’ and my regular clothes just about look like cl...
(Video) HoloLens Projects Legendary Characters Onto Your Desk
[Tech]
2016/08/11 11:01
Legendary Pictures is using HoloLens to bring its characters to life as holograms.With AR in the spotlight thanks to the runaway success of Pokemon Go, many heads might be turning towards Microsoft's HoloLens, the AR headset that lets users see 3D holograms in the living room. Though a consumer version might be a long way off, Microsoft is trickling out details about how its partners are experi...
Amazon and Google Change the R&D Race
[Business]
2016/08/11 11:01
The numbers for another quarter are in, and it's becoming ever clearer that Amazon.com and Google's parent company, Alphabet, are pulling away from their U.S. peers in research and development spending:The U.S. R&D Leaders - Trailing 12 months research and development spending*As noted in the chart, though, there is something a little bit different about Amazon's (huge) number. There's no r...
Underwear Brands Launch “Nude” Collections That Promote Racial inclusivity
[Product]
2016/08/11 11:01
Impact, young consumers believe that brands have the power to better the world through social consciousness. In fact, 65% of American youth and 56% of British youth think companies, not governments, can make the biggest positive impact. One such way is through the promotion of racial inclusivity, which budding and luxury brands alike are embracing in order to meet the needs of the evolving cons...
How Olympics Advertisers Are Spending TV and Digital Ad Dollars
[Business]
2016/08/11 11:01
Multichannel efforts by Geico, Verizon, Walmart and others. In a multiscreen world, brands are attacking all channels. Based on data from NBC and aggregated stats from more than 6,000 websites, MediaRadar is evaluating the kinds of placements Summer Olympics advertisers are buying across TV and digital mediums. Exact dollar figures are not available, but the tech company's thorough methodology...
The Rise Of Bots : A Timeline Of Major VC-Backed Bot Startups
[Investing]
2016/08/11 11:00
15 VC-backed bot startups have raised their first VC rounds so far this year.[click to enlarge]Advances in artificial intelligence algorithms have put chatbots and voice assistants in the spotlight, with investor interest in the space increasing in recent months.Just this month, as of 7/28/2016, 7 bot-focused startups — including stealth startup Begin and recruitment bot Wade & Wendy — ra...
Improved Skincare Via Real-Time Air Pollution Checks - REN Clean Skincare
[Product]
2016/08/11 11:00
REN Clean Skincare’s latest marketing campaign rates local air quality and encourages the use of its new product to protect skin from dirty air.As the largest organ in the body, the skin is an extensive surface prone to damage from polluted city environments. For seasoned commuters used to a near-daily gauntlet of polluted air, REN Clean Skincare’s latest product, the Flash Defense Anti-Pollu...
IBM’s New Microchip to Make Liquid Biopsies Possible
[Tech]
2016/08/11 11:00
IBM scientists have created a microfluidic device that is able to sort microscopic particles by size down to 20 nm. This capability should help separate exosomes from bodily fluids, which may one day become commonly tracked biomarkers of cancer and some other diseases.exosomes-machineExosomes are vesicles, as small as 30 nm, released by cell membranes and which contain genetic and protein infor...
Your Moves Make The Grooves - The Pacer
[Design]
2016/08/11 10:59
Music and dance, as art forms, go hand in hand… but I’ve firmly believed that of the two, music has always had the upper hand. Music sets the stage for the dance to follow. You seldom see dance without rhythm, or music. The Pacer doesn’t alienate dance from music, but it gives movement the ‘first step’.The Pacer is a suit that enables the wearer to convert movement into music. It uses sens...
(PDF) Outlook on Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise 2016
[Business]
2016/08/10 11:05
Artificial Intelligence Rapidly Adopted By Enterprises, Survey Says. 62% of enterprises will use AI technologies by 2018.Artificial intelligence has replaced big data this year as the most talked about new set of technologies. As with big data five years ago—behind the hype, the confusion generated by an ill-defined term, and the record funding by VC—we are starting to see emerging investment...
(Video) Soylent’s New Creation Is Coffee and Breakfast in a Bottle - Coffiest
[Product]
2016/08/10 11:05
Coffiest is Soylent’s newest creation, the latest in its line of meal-in-a-bottle products. Like regular Soylent, it’s meant to give you a broad nutritional base, basically taking all those parts of the “complete breakfast” you’d see in a 1990s cereal commercial and cramming them into Soylent’s standard 400 kcal bottle.A bottle of Coffiest also has 150mg of caffeine, which isn’t actually...
(PDF) Deloitte : 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index
[Business]
2016/08/10 11:04
The US innovation ecosystem has evolved significantly over the last century, transitioning from business monopolies dominating R&D early last century, assertive government sponsorship mid-century, to the current environment, within a globally connected world, in which small and big businesses collaborate with universities, venture capitalists, and research institutions to drive the innovati...
