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A Winner of the 2018 Red Dot Design Concept Award - Intelligent Housekeeping Robot
[Design]
2018/11/08 10:34
Don’t be deceived by the name, this adorable robot isn’t going to clean your floors, but it might be able to control another device that does. It’s called the IHR (Intelligent Housekeeping Robot) and its primary function is to act as a central hub that can manage all your smart devices efficiently.Using a mobile app, home users can sync up everything from floor vacuums and nanny cams to alar...
(PDF) Capgemini - Disrupting the Retail Industry with Blockchain
[Business]
2018/11/07 10:48
Blockchain technology offers traceability and transparency that can potentially help eradicate some of the challenges faced by the retail industry and deliver trust and value to customers.The retail industry is continually being reshaped by innovative and emerging technologies. Take, for example, the trend of Conversational Commerce and smart digital stores. Over the past few years, new solutio...
Designing the Cannabis Industry : How a Market for Marijuana is Growing Fast
[Design]
2018/11/07 10:47
2018 is shaping up to be a big year for medical and recreational marijuana. constellation brands, an international producer of drinks like corona, modelo, and svedka, made a $4 billion investment into the legal weed market. Last month cresco labs raised $100 million in private investment and signed ex-nike lead designer scott wilson as chief experience officer. even coca-cola at one point has t...
(PDF) DextrES Haptic Feedback Glove Lets You Touch the Virtual World
[Tech]
2018/11/07 10:47
Scientists from EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) in Switzerland have designed a haptic feedback glove that allows you to touch and feel objects in the virtual world, which is an excellent accomplishment over using handheld controllers. This isn’t the first foray into using haptic gloves to interact with virtual objects, VRgluv, HaptX, and EXOS can accomplish the same feat (albei...
Tink Labs, Which Gives Free-to-Use Smartphones to Hotel Guests, is Raising $300M
[Investing]
2018/11/07 10:47
Tink Labs, a Hong Kong startup that develops smartphones that hotels provide to their guests for free, is raising a new round of up to $300 million to further its international footprint, TechCrunch has come to understand.The startup is in the final stages of completing the deal that could give its six-year-old business a post-money valuation of at least $1.5 billion, two sources with knowledge...
Omnichannel Fast Facts on the In-Store and E-Commerce Landscapes
[Consumer]
2018/11/07 10:47
There’s no doubt that e-commerce is reshaping the global retail industry. But while online shopping is driving much of the growth, offline sales in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market are up this year as well.Specifically, on- and offline FMCG sales totaled more than $1.01 trillion in the year ended Aug. 25, 2018, which is 2.6% more than a year ago. It is worth noting that e-commerce...
Sim-Pill - Medicine Packaging
[Design]
2018/11/07 10:47
Sim-Pill is a medicine packaging concept for some basic over the counter drugs to make them easily recognizable to everyone.Do you have a medicine box at home filled with medicines and you can’t figure out which medicine does what?Design: Akkshit KhattarProject Type: Student ProjectSchool: MIT Institute of DesignLocation: Pune, IndiaPackaging Contents: Medicine TabletsPackaging Substrate / Mat...
(Video) The 'Night Watch' Device Could Save Thousands of Lives
[Product]
2018/11/07 10:46
A new high-tech bracelet, developed by scientists from the Netherlands detects 85 percent of all severe night-time epilepsy seizures. That is a much better score than any other technology currently available. The researchers involved think that this bracelet can reduce the worldwide number of unexpected night-time fatalities in epilepsy patients. They published the results of a prospective tria...
The Most Sensible Professional VR Headset Ever Designed - Pega VR4
[Design]
2018/11/07 10:46
The future in which we’re perpetually strapped to AR or VR headsets is a distant, dystopic one. At most, we’d use a VR headset for 2-3 hours of work or gaming, in conjunction with our desktop PC. That temporary use is what triggered the design of the Pega VR4. It sits in its dock, right beside your desktop, and plugs to your head when you need.Short and fragmented VR experiences are much more...
