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(Video) 3D Printed Chair That Mimics Unicellular Organisms - Radiolaria # 1
[Design]
2018/09/26 09:05
‘Radiolaria #1’ is a real size 3D printed model of a chair by lilian van daal is made out of a single material that mimics unicellular natural structures. these structures incorporate all functionalities — flexibility, adaptability, firmness, and stability — necessary for the comfort of a chair. With radiolaria #1, van daal proceeds with her quest to improve, adjust and innovate the produc...
When Facebook Goes Down, People Go Read the News
[Consumer]
2018/09/26 09:04
What happens when internet users can’t go on Facebook? Some turn to other social media platforms to joke about it. A lot of them, it turns out, spend that time reading the news.When Facebook experienced a 45-minute outage on Aug. 3 in many parts of the world, traffic to news websites sharply spiked, according to a data from Chartbeat, a firm used by many major news publishers to track traffic...
(Video) Air Purifier to Utilize as a Side Table - AIREA
[Design]
2018/09/26 09:03
With the living population within cities ever on the rise, an ever-increasing number of individuals are living in a studio or one-bedroom apartments. One of the most significant issues that these people face is the difficulty they have when trying to refresh the interior air! Introducing a conventional air purifier into the living space is a huge compromise on the valuable floor space, and for...
(PDF) CapGemini - Augmented and Virtual Reality in Operations
[Business]
2018/09/20 10:27
Capgemini Research Institute report gives 360 view on Immersive Technologies.Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) are not new, but recent advances in computational power, storage, graphics processing, and high-resolution displays have helped overcome some of the constraints that have stood in the way of the widespread use of these immersive technologies. According to IDC, global spendi...
Porsche Leads $80M Investment in WayRay to Bring Holographic AR Displays to Cars
[Investing]
2018/09/20 10:27
WayRay, a Swiss company that aims to enable holographic augmented reality (AR) displays in cars, has raised $80 million in a series C round of funding led by Volkswagen-owned German car company Porsche.With participation from Hyundai, Alibaba, China Merchants Capital, Jvckenwood, and Consortium of Sovereign Wealth Funds (JBIC and partners).Founded out of Zürich in 2012, WayRay develops AR glas...
(PDF) Algorithms Can Turn Any Scene Into a Comic
[Tech]
2018/09/20 10:27
Making your own Picasso isn’t the only thing neural style transfer can do. Comics take the form of a series of still images that together tell a story. The images are often highly stylized and the graphic artists admired for their skill.[From left to right: the original graphic image, the target image, and the resulting stylized image]But this kind of artistry is hard to learn and difficult to...
(Infographic) Counterpoint : Q2-2018 Mobile Market Monitor
[Business]
2018/09/20 10:27
Counterpoint Research's Q2-2018 Market Monitor report has been published. They release one Infographic in each quarter to summarize the handset and smartphone market activities in a single page.Some quick observations from this edition: Global smartphone shipments declined 2% annually reaching 363 million units in Q2 2018.MEA was the only region to experience double digit growth at 14% YoY. NAM...
(Video) Renault's EZ-PRO, Linking Urban Mobility with The Future City
[Design]
2018/09/20 10:26
Convoys of EZ-Pro electric robo-pods led by a manned autonomous package carrier could leave a central hub and head out for last mile deliveries.Renault says that future urban mobility will be electric, connected, autonomous and shared – and has today revealed its last mile delivery vision at the Hannover Motor Show in Germany. The EZ-Pro autonomous electric pod concept is all of those things,...
Flexible Stick-On Ultrasound Patch Measures Central Blood Pressure
[Tech]
2018/09/20 10:26
Scientists at the University of California San Diego created a flexible ultrasonic patch that can measure the blood pressure in major vessels such as the jugular vein and carotid artery. The technology has already shown, in a proof-of-concept study, that it may be made as accurate as invasive means to measure the central blood pressure. If turned into a product, patients may soon benefit from c...
