Luke Miles never felt comfortable in an economy airline seat. As founder and CCO for the U.K. design studio New Territory, serving clients like Boeing, he had worked on concepts for airlines, including new plane layouts that radically rethink the interior design of aircraft. But flying on his own, and with his own family, he felt like the chairs on airlines weren’t just cramped, they were down...

Consumers today are increasingly craving immersive, real-life experiences. But they want these experiences without foregoing time or effort. The solution? Augmented and virtual reality (A/VR) technology, coming to a “store” near you.Many of us feel our lives getting busier. And according to a recent Nielsen global survey, nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents confirm it. They say that their...

Childcare is one of the biggest expenses for American parents — and it’s not just families that are taking a hit. Childcare issues cost the United States’ economy an estimated $4.4 billion in lost productivity each year and also impacts employee retention rates. Kinside wants to help with a platform that not only enables families to get the most out of their family care benefits, but also fi...

Looking back at the past ten years, it seems fair to say that it’s been the decade of tech companies.The smartphone boom and the still ongoing digitization of our lives have helped companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (“GAFAM”) grow to unprecedented heights, turning three of them into trillion-dollar companies, at least temporarily.The usual ups and downs notwithst...

The Intelligent Tow Tank conducts experiments and changes experimental values to seek out new and useful results, conducting 100,000 experiments a year.We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see ourPrivacy Noticefor details of your data protection rightsScientists are always warning us that our jobs are under threat from artificial intelligence. Self-driving tec...

Existing digital pencils on the market have their own limitations as you need your smartphone or tablet to use it, otherwise those pencils are useless. The basic idea of this project was to combine AI devices with a high-end writing instrument, inspired by iconic and luxurious Montblanc’s design DNA. Montblanc Note is a concept study of an advanced digital pen designed not only for tablets and...

With nearly eight billion people on the planet — and more than half of them on internet — verifying who’s who is one of the great technological challenges of our time. To meet this challenge, Biometric security is rising to the occasion, buoyed by technological advancements and user-friendly experiences.Modern biometrics can seem like science fiction, but the concept is far from new. Sir Fra...

American footwear and apparel powerhouse Nike appears primed to be the latest major oncomer to the arena of tokenization — that is if a patent the company has just received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is any indication.The patent, first filed back in the spring and awarded by the USPTO on December 10th, is for a token system that would be built around Ethereum’s ERC721 t...

Disney really iced out the box office competition this year. It’s already about $12 billion if you include the Fox titles Disney acquired earlier this year.Now that “Frozen 2” is on the brink of earning $1 billion worldwide, the House of Mouse’s global box office total is poised to cross the $10 billion mark, making it the first movie studio to ever do that in a single year. That breaks its...