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Vegan SeaStar Seaweed-Based Tuna and Sashimi Launches in the Netherlands
[Product]
2018/10/11 11:19
A new brand of plant-based seafood called Vegan SeaStar has launched in the Netherlands. The company is a collaboration between Dutch plant-based product commercial agent, Vegan XL, and the Amsterdam-based comfort food restaurant, Vegan Junk Food Bar.According to Vegan SeaStar, the product is already available at the Marie Heinekenplein location of Vegan Junk Food Bar. It will also soon be avai...
MINI Arc Concept Features Transparent Roof and An Interactive Holographic Display
[Design]
2018/10/11 11:18
MINI Arc is a personal project as part of research in new transportation design by Grigory Butin. This concept proposal was inspired by the original MINI and a vision of possible future design of this car without losing its iconic design DNA. In the future, MINI would be all electric car, the new design would feature timeless, recognizable, and stylish characteristics.Grigory Butin explains tha...
(PDF) Edelman - 'Millennials With Money 2018' Report
[Consumer]
2018/10/10 10:42
Millennials With Money, a follow-up to our first deep-dive in 2016 on this generation’s relationship with money and financial services, revisits these dynamics now that they’re beginning to approach their 40s, starting and growing families and paying more attention to growing their wealth. This research is based on a survey of 1,500 affluent Millennials (defined here as having at least $50K i...
(Patent) Ford Patent Uses Smartphone Tilt-Steering to Take Over Autonomous Car
[Tech]
2018/10/10 10:42
Ford Patent Would Let You Steer Your Car by Tilting Your Phone.Despite the army of eyes and minds attempting to keep track of everything happening in vehicle autonomy, there's too much movement and innovation to keep up in real time. That means there's also no way to know what our future autonomous world will contain. Ford, for instance, just received a patent for an idea that raised our eyebro...
Start-up 'Iron Ox' Created The First Farm in America Run Entirely by Robots
[Business]
2018/10/10 10:42
Start-up Iron Ox created a fully autonomous farm in San Carlos, California. The hydroponic indoor farm relies on two robots to plant, care for and harvest produce.One of the robots is 1,000 pounds and about the size of a car. It picks up the trays of plants and transports them around the greenhouse. A second machine, a robotic arm, is responsible for all the fine manipulation tasks, like seedin...
The World's Tech Giants & Retail Brands 2018
[Investing]
2018/10/10 10:42
Technology companies have a unique advantage over other businesses, and it’s called the network effect. Each new user who joins a platform adds value to everyone already on it. [click to enlarge]Facebook would be boring if you were the only one on it. Google would be useless if websites opted out of its indexing services. Amazon would lose substantial clout if 3rd party sellers refused to part...
(Video) In-Flight Charging Gives Drones Unlimited Autonomous Range
[Tech]
2018/10/10 10:41
GET's in-flight charging stations could give industrial drones unlimited flight time – they just need to stop inside this induction loop for a few minutes to top up their batteries.Global Energy Transmission (GET) has pioneered a mid-air inductive recharging system that can charge up several drones at once without requiring them to land. Build enough of these stations, and you can have an army...
(Infographic) The New Customer Experience
[Consumer]
2018/10/10 10:41
Traditional CX is no longer enough to satisfy consumers. CMOs Are Leading the Charge as Customer Experience Increasingly Requires Collaboration.CMOs are uniquely positioned to drive collaboration, says Mish Fletcher, global head of marketing at Accenture Interactive.As customer experience becomes more of a priority than ever for brands, marketers are finding that winning over, serving and satis...
A Fan That Focuses on The User's Experience - The Clutch Fan
[Design]
2018/10/10 10:41
This sleek concept is Clutch Fan, and it alters the way the user interacts with the fan through careful and considered design! A conventional fan features buttons that we operate with our hands, but this certainly isn’t the case with Clutch; a vast amount of the fan’s functionality is controlled by a single ‘pedal’ that is located at the base of the device, while other features such as a me...
