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Corneas Could Be the First Mainstream Application of Bioprinting - Precise Bio
[Tech]
2018/11/13 11:14
The startup Precise Bio says it can replace donated eyes with 3D-printed corneas.Here’s a futuristic problem that may not have occurred to you: If self-driving cars really catch on and the number of traffic fatalities plunges, so will the number of organs available for transplant. Currently, about 20 percent of donated organs come from people who die in car accidents. Luckily, there’s a futur...
Amazon Echo Has 23% Share of Smart Speakers in Use
[Product]
2018/11/13 11:13
According to a major new consumer survey, the most popular smart speaker model in the US is the Amazon Echo, which accounts for 23% of all smart speakers in use. Including all its models, Amazon accounts for 63% of smart speakers in use, while Google accounts for 17% and Apple 4%. These findings have been published by Strategy Analytics in its report “ Smart Speaker User Survey – US Results...
EcoLogicStudio Fights Global Climate Change with Bio-Digital Urban Curtain
[Design]
2018/11/13 11:13
London-based architectural and design studio ecoLogicStudio has revealed during dublin’s climate innovation summit 2018 a large-scale installation dubbed photo.synth.etica. Created in collaboration with climate-KIC — EU’s most prominent climate innovation initiative — the urban curtain aims to accelerate solutions to global climate change by capturing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it...
(Infographic) Most Consumers Don’t Even Notice Store Closures
[Consumer]
2018/11/13 09:02
36% said they don't miss any shuttered retailers. Nearly 40 percent of consumers didn’t notice the 200 percent increase in store closures in 2017.As online shopping skyrockets, brick-and-mortar stores continue to close. And most consumers don’t even notice, according to new research from Sailthru.While nearly 40 percent of consumers didn’t notice the 200 percent increase in store closures in...
(Patent) Google Patents Eye-Tracking System To Read Expressions For VR
[Tech]
2018/11/12 11:06
Google may one day make our virtual avatars more expressive by tracking our eyes.That is according to a patent published last week in which the company details a system for ‘Classifying Facial Expressions Using Eye-Tracking Cameras’. According to the description, the method uses “one or more eye tracking sensors implemented into one or more head mounted devices”.Eye-tracking is thought to b...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How Consumer-Goods Companies Can Win in Southeast Asia
[Business]
2018/11/12 11:06
Disciplined spending, stronger partnerships with retailers and distributors, and cross-functional collaboration set winners apart. But all companies in the region need to step up their game in digitization and analytics.For more than a decade, Southeast Asia has been a growth market for consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) manufacturers. The sustained rise in consumer demand in the region is, of cours...
A Fifth of China’s Homes Are Empty. That’s 50 Million Apartments
[Investing]
2018/11/12 11:05
Risk is potential for flood of sales during any property slump. Xi has said homes are for living in, not for speculation.Chinese President Xi Jinping’s mantra that homes should be for living in is falling on deaf ears, with tens of millions of apartments and houses standing empty across the country.Soon-to-be-published research will show roughly 22 percent of China’s urban housing stock is un...
MIT's See-Through Film Rejects 70% of Incoming Solar Heat
[Tech]
2018/11/12 11:05
To battle the summer heat, office and residential buildings tend to crank up the air conditioning, sending energy bills soaring. Indeed, it’s estimated that air conditioners use about 6 percent of all the electricity produced in the United States, at an annual cost of $29 billion dollars — an expense that’s sure to grow as the global thermostat climbs.Now MIT engineers have developed a heat-...
The Top Ten Cities For $100M VC Rounds In 2018 So Far
[Investing]
2018/11/12 11:05
Crunchbase News profiled a selection of U.S. companies’ largest VC raised in 2018, and no surprise here: the ten largest rounds all topped out well north of $100 million.A major driver of global venture dollar growth is the relatively recent phenomenon of companies raising $100 million or more in a single venture round. We’ve called these nine and ten-figure deals, which shine brightly in the...
