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Neura Raises $11M to Create Digital Identities From Consumers’ Connected Lives
[Investing]
2016/01/20 11:14
Neura, an Israeli Internet of Things startup that pulls together data from users’ connected devices, has raised $11 million to expand its “business reach and make the service ubiquitous.” The Series A round was led by AXA Strategic Ventures and Pitango Venture Capital, with participation from Liberty Israel Venture Fund and Lenovo Group.Founded in 2013, Neura launched in the U.S. out of UpWe...
Noria : Modern Window Air Conditioner Features Slim and Compact Design
[Design]
2016/01/20 11:14
The world is getting hotter, during a heat wave, you would feel miserable when you don’t have an AC in the room. Some people prefer window air conditioner because the installation is pretty easy, it doesn’t require professional help. Unfortunately this type of ACs doesn’t change much for decades, they usually big, ugly, and loud. Introducing Noria, it’s a redesigned window air conditioner t...
Fallen Tree Branches Transformed Into Elegant Furniture
[Design]
2016/01/20 11:13
Rather than processing the material into a new, unrecognizable form, New York City-based Chilean designer Sebastian Errazuriz decides to emphasize the original form of fallen tree branches in this set of striking furniture.Whether they are the tallest organism in the world, or the oldest, or show up in our buildings, trees are wonderful and yet sometimes under-appreciated. Even though these sal...
(Infographic) Awesome Airport Hacks to Make Flying Suck Less
[Consumer]
2016/01/20 09:38
Sure, flying gets us from A to B quicker than any other mode of transport, but the whole process can also waste a lot of time. Here are some tips from Toggl to make the airport experience a little less tedious.Infographic : https://toggl.com/images/landing-pages/airport-tips-infographic.jpg[toggl]
(PDF) Marketing in the Moments, to Reach Customers Online
[Business]
2016/01/19 14:48
MOMENTS are having a moment in advertising. Or at least a micromoment.As people flit from app to app online, they have little patience for any interruption, especially a banner ad or, heaven forbid, a 30-second commercial. Moments, whether they come during a 10-second Snapchat video or Twitter’s new collection of real-time news bites — called, fittingly enough, Moments — increasingly are all...
(PDF) How Future Cars Will Predict Your Driving Maneuvers Before You Make Them
[Tech]
2016/01/19 14:48
Prototype car safety systems are learning to watch the driver, as well as the road ahead, to predict future maneuvers more than three seconds before a driver makes them. Buy a new car these days and the chances are that it will be fitted with an array of driver-assistance technologies. These can match the speed of a car ahead, manage lane changing safely, and even apply the brakes to help preve...
(PDF) BCG - Travel Innovated: Who Will Own the Customer ?
[Business]
2016/01/19 14:48
Consider a vision of the travel experience in the not-too-distant future. Olivia, who is 28 and lives in Seattle, decides to add a few days of pleasure travel to a business trip to Sydney. She asks Travel Dreams on the Fly, one of several new travel-concierge apps that all her friends are using, for suggestions. Travel Dreams knows Olivia’s likes and preferences thoroughly—as well as those of...
There are Now 229 Unicorn Startups, with $175B in Funding and $1.3T Valuation
[Investing]
2016/01/19 14:48
Tales of the tech unicorn’s impending demise might be somewhat exaggerated. [click to enlarge]Spoke Intelligence and VB Profiles released a report recently that counted more than 208 of the mythical creatures, not to mention an additional 21 of the even more rarely spotted decacorns — startups with a valuation in excess of $10 billion.healthcare and biotech unicornsAlmost half of them live in...
The ROK Espresso Maker Uses No Electricity, Is As Hands-On As It Gets
[Product]
2016/01/19 14:47
There’s an entire sub-culture devoted to discussing ways of crafting the perfect espresso. Very often these guys talk about maintaining the perfect temperature, and perfect pressure during the extraction process; it’s a very precise technique some manufacturers claim to have honed to a science. The ROK Espresso Maker takes a completely different approach; call it an artistic interpretation of...
(Video) Biowearable Tech Tattoos Monitor Your Vitals
[Tech]
2016/01/19 14:47
Mobile development company Chaotic Moon unveiled its idea for biosensors that might one day find themselves replacing credit cards.Austin-based mobile development company Chaotic Moon recently revealed their latest project in biowearables—electronic tattoos or Tech Tats. Tech Tats are biosensors that are placed on the skin like a tattoo and uses the skin itself as an interface.The electronic t...
Adidas Reveals Full Details of Laceless Boots
[Product]
2016/01/19 14:47
In 2015 adidas stunned the football world by revealing that laceless football boots would be hitting the pitch in 2016. Revealed by some of the world's best players on Instagram a black out prototype boot appeared on training pitches across the globe.Now, the boot that dominated headlines is ready to dominate pitches and boss everyone.The ACE 16+ PURECONTROL, the world's first high performance...
This Drone Concept for FedEx
[Design]
2016/01/19 14:47
Despite not being in action, drones are nothing new to the game of home package delivery. This drone concept for FedEx, however, introducing modularity to the system to carry not only cargo but passengers. Based around a single flying unit that can be equipped with a passenger module or cargo module, thereby transforming FedEx into the ultimate transporter of goods and people. To maximize effic...
