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(Video) Condom Material Becomes Sportswear for Skynfeel Long-Jump Suit
[Design]
2016/07/24 11:03
Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created experimental athletics apparel from the same material that contraceptives brand Skyn uses to make its condoms.Van Dongen's proposal re-appropriates the company's Skynfeel material, which is made from polyisoprene – an alternative to latex that is claimed to provide the same strength but with a softer, more natural feel.It is used to create...
(Patent) Nike Patents AR System For Designing Clothes
[Tech]
2016/07/21 10:09
You might not consider a company like Nike to have much use for the likes of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies. As it turns out, they’ve been looking at them for at least two years.The iconic sportswear company has recently been granted a patent for a new AR system that lets people design clothes. According to the document’s description, the system allows a person to virtually...
(PDF) BCG - The Private-Sector Opportunity to Improve Well-Being
[Investing]
2016/07/21 10:08
Leaders around the world increasingly recognize that GDP alone cannot give a full picture of a country's performance. The well-being of citizens is an even more important measure. The Boston Consulting Group’s Sustainable Economic Development Assessment (SEDA) is a powerful diagnostic designed to provide government leaders with a perspective on how effectively their countries convert wealth, a...
(M&A) Unilever Buys Dollar Shave Club for Reported $1Billion Value
[Investing]
2016/07/21 10:08
Unilever creates and captures a unicorn with its plans to acquire Dollar Shave Club. Announced this evening, the $130 billion dollar multinational consumer goods company is speculated to be paying $1 billion, all cash, for the startup, according to reports from Fortune.If the pricing is true, the transaction will be the third largest ever in e-commerce, only beaten by zulily and Wayfair.E-comme...
DeepMind's AI Will Be in Every Google Data Centrer by the End of 2016
[Tech]
2016/07/21 10:08
Google has adopted a DeepMind AI system in several of its data centres over the last few months as a way of reducing the amount of energy the server farms consume. However, the full extent of Google's plans for the software are only just becoming clear."It [DeepMind's AI] will be in the entire fleet by the end of the year," DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman told Business Insider on Wednesday....
Breakfast Is The Most Important Meal of the Day, But The Way We Eat It Is Changing
[Consumer]
2016/07/21 10:08
Learning to pour yourself a bowl of cereal is a time honored part of growing up. It’s the first meal you can finally make for yourself, and as parents, it means the constant “But I’m hungry!” comments can be met with, “Go pour yourself a bowl of cereal.” Plus, who can pass up the prize at the bottom of the box?So it should come as no surprise that for children, cereal is a breakfast of ch...
(Video) Why Virtual Reality is Auto Marketing's 'Sleeping Giant'
[Business]
2016/07/21 10:08
Brands Are Using Virtual Showrooms and Test Drives to Reach Younger Buyers.How big could virtual reality become for auto marketing? Here are some clues: Toyota agency Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles has a 35-person VR team that is developing virtual showrooms. Infiniti -- which began testing virtual reality last year -- is getting more aggressive, including striking a new ad deal with The New...
(Video) Circuit Marker Conducts Electricity As You Draw - AgIC
[Product]
2016/07/21 10:07
Different components can be connected by tracing the pen along a sheet.Tokyo-based startup AgIC aims to make electric circuits more accessible to people of all ages and levels of experience. Their Circuit Marker conducts electricity as you draw lines on a sheet. Using silver conductive ink, the pen can connect different components to create circuits. It is compatible with AgIC Circuit PET Film...
(Infographic) Understanding Machine Learning
[Tech]
2016/07/21 10:07
We now live in an age where machines can teach themselves without human intervention.Infographic : http://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Understanding-Machine-Learning_v6.jpg[futurism]
(Patent) Snapchat Wants to Use Image Recognition to Send Ads
[Tech]
2016/07/20 10:24
One of Snapchat’s best loved features is its photo filters, which use GPS data and augmented reality to add interactive “lenses” to your photos and videos. Now, the messaging startup wants to make that offering more powerful—and lucrative.A patent application published on July 14, titled “Object Recognition Based Photo Filters,” describes lenses and filters that would be based on the pict...
(Video) Golf Cart Jetpack Gives New Meaning to a "Birdie"
[Tech]
2016/07/20 10:24
Pro Golfer Bubba Watson, Oakley and Martin Aircraft have teamed up to create the Golf Cart Jetpack. The humble golf cart is not very slick, but it gets the job done. So is there a better way to get from tee to green? In 2013, pro golfer Bubba Watson, along with Oakley and Neoteric Hovercraft, posed this question with a Golf Cart Hovercraft. Now, with the help of Martin Aircraft, the team has ta...
CB Insights - The Venture Pulse Report, Q2 2016
[Investing]
2016/07/20 10:23
The second quarter of 2016 saw venture capital funding activity rise slightly following 2 quarters of declines, while deal activity fell for the fourth consecutive quarter. Large rounds by companies like Uber, Snapchat and Didi Chuxing helped buoy investment despite the ongoing decline in the number of deals.While the Brexit referendum in the UK caused many investors to hold back from making si...
