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(Video) Park & Diamond is a Collapsible Helmet That Looks Like a Baseball Cap
[Product]
2018/10/15 10:57
Created by ex-SpaceX engineers. Looks & feels like a baseball cap. Safe as a traditional helmet.Everybody knows a bike helmet could save your life, but that doesn't stop people ditching them because they look dorky or are too bulky to stash in a bag.The Park & Diamond is a new helmet designed to solve both of those problems, resembling a baseball cap when it's on your head and collapsin...
(PDF) Sprayable Antennas Turn Surfaces Into Ultra-Thin, Transparent Transmitters
[Tech]
2018/10/15 10:57
The sprayable antenna is made of MXene, a 2D titanium carbide material, which is extremely conductive and in tests performs as well as traditional antennas.If a device connects wirelessly to other things, chances are high that it has an antenna in it. But as crucial as these components are, the rigid metals they're made of can limit what devices they can be built into. To help with that, resear...
Panasonic's Wear Space Concentration by Limiting Senses of Sight and Hearing
[Design]
2018/10/15 10:55
Panasonic's wear space aids concentration by limiting senses of sight and hearingall images courtesy of panasonic – future life factory.Wear space by panasonic is a wearable prototype device created to aid concentration by limiting one’s senses of sight and hearing. designed similar to a set of horse blinkers, the project employs a partition that controls the wearer’s field of view, as well...
(Infographic) How Agencies Use Color in Their Logos
[Design]
2018/10/15 10:55
The dominant color in an agency’s logo may seem like a trivial matter compared with the shop’s mission, goals and ideal clientele, but make no mistake: It matters.Global creative platform 99designs analyzed thousands of logos created on its site, as well as the logos of industry leaders, to break down prioritized brand traits and how they’re expressed through color. It turns out that some co...
(PDF) UNWTO - International Tourism Trends 2018 Report
[Business]
2018/10/14 09:10
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has published its 2018 report on international tourism trends, finding that last year was extremely positive for the industry. Due to a combination of strong economic conditions, increasing demand in emerging markets and the recovery of destinations suffering from security challenges, 2017 experienced the highest growth in international tourist arrivals si...
Fraunhofer - Specially Designed Batteries for Wearable Devices
[Tech]
2018/10/14 09:09
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Germany have developed a way to pack dense batteries into flexible devices such as wristbands of wearable devices. There is a new technology gripping the markets of the future – technology to wear. Wearables, as they are known, are portable systems that contain sensors to collect measurement data from our bodies. P...
What a Difference a Decade Makes
[Business]
2018/10/14 09:08
10 years ago, on October 7, 2008, Spotify launched its music streaming service in parts of Europe, marking the birth hour of what is now the most popular way of consuming music.As the following chart illustrates, the music landscape looked radically different in 2007 than it did last year. Back then, physical formats, predominantly CDs, accounted for nearly 80 percent of global music revenues,...
(Video) Novera is a Smart, Talking Mirror That Interacts with Users to Make Them Feel Beautiful
[Product]
2018/10/14 09:07
The World Tonovera is an interactive mirror equipped with a monitor display, camera, and speaker, that compliments and chats with users through a male voice, or through text that appears on the display as a speech bubble. Drawing evidence from psychology, medicine and the beauty market, the mirror obtains information from everyday faces such as expressions, health conditions, make up, and heart...
Gas-Sensing Smart Capsule Expected as Soon as 2022 - Atmo Biosciences
[Tech]
2018/10/14 09:06
The innovative diagnostic device is rapidly moving into final trials.After years of development researchers at RMIT are one step closer to bringing their revolutionary gas measuring capsule to market following a new agreement with health tech company Atmo Biosciences that paves the way for technology enhancements and final human trials.A variety of different gas byproducts are created when the...
