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(Video) The UN Launches an "ShareTheMeal" App to Let You Donate a Meal to Refugee Children
[Business]
2015/11/15 11:05
Building on the success of these campaigns, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is using tech to help the cause by launching a mobile app that lets you feed a refugee child with just a tap.Called ShareTheMeal, this mobile app allows anyone to virtually “share” the meal they’re having, whether that’s breakfast, lunch, or dinner. “The simple act of sharing a meal is how people all...
An Ultra-Slim Laptop Bag
[Product]
2015/11/15 11:04
The Under-The-Jack Pack by Betabrand. It is an ultra-slim laptop bag that conceals easily under a jacket.Every day, I make a mile-long trek from the train station to my house through a rough neighborhood; I realized I'd feel safer if I wasn't advertising the fact I had a laptop with me. I started thinking about ways to conceal it and came up with the idea of a laptop sleeve with straps.The Unde...
FoldFlat Food Storage
[Design]
2015/11/15 11:03
Take what you know about food storage, put it in your big fat plastic container, and throw it out the window! The FoldFlat tupperware system is food storage reinvented. Inspired by origami, it’s the world’s first fold-down and pop-up container. It brings an end to messy cupboards and lost lids with a unique nestable design that keeps the two parts together. Now it’s easier than ever to pack...
(Video) NEC Turns a Person's Arm Into a Keyboard - ARmKeypad
[Tech]
2015/11/12 11:50
Japanese electronics maker NEC has unveiled a unique input mechanism that allows you to type on your arm using augmented reality.The system is called the ARmKeypad and it combines a set of glasses to visualize the virtual keyboard and a smartwatch to detect how fast you type.Designed as a means to give workers a "hands-free" way of working while maintaining the ability to input text into a data...
MUJI Unveils Trio of Tiny Prefab Homes That can Pop Up Almost Anywhere
[Design]
2015/11/12 11:50
Lovers of MUJI’s minimalist Japanese aesthetic will swoon over the retail chain’s latest project: Muji Hut, a series of tiny prefab homes befitting the simple yet chic brand. Recently unveiled for Tokyo’s annual Design Touch event at Midtown Garden, the collection of micro-homes are designed to explore what it means to live a more sustainable lifestyle through minimalism. MUJI created the Mu...
(Video) Stanford Engineers Develop a Star Trek-Style Tricorder to Detect Cancer
[Tech]
2015/11/12 11:50
A new technology has promise to safely find buried plastic explosives and maybe even spot fast-growing tumors. The technique involves the clever interplay of microwaves and ultrasound to develop a detector like the Star Trek tricorder.Stanford engineers are using microwaves and ultrasound to create a safe and portable way to detect hidden objects.When Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy needs to diagnose...
World’s First Industrial-Scale Carbon Capture - Climeworks
[Tech]
2015/11/12 11:50
Climeworks has developed a scalable atmospheric carbon capture that can store CO2 for reuse as energy.We recently wrote about a Belgian company converting climate change related byproducts into ethanol that is sold on as fuel. Switzerland-based Climeworks is going a step further by capturing CO2 from the air for commercial uses.Climeworks have developed a filter that binds CO2 by direct air cap...
Self Healing Tires that Say No to Punctures is the Next Best Thing in the Auto Arena
[Tech]
2015/11/12 11:50
It’s autonomous with everything these days in automobile industry. Autonomous vehicles, auto-climatic control, auto-parking, auto-wipers - vendors have fetched the industry to such a stage where they can invite even a guy unexposed to driving to take control of a car through long rides.Regardless of what they do, the vehicle can take care of its own for almost anything, except for one thing -...
Intel Backs $8M Project to Open Body Labs’ Body Scan Database to Developers
[Investing]
2015/11/12 11:50
What if a fitness app could show you the way your body changes week to week using a 3D body scan? That’s the sort of mobile app that Body Labs CEO Bill O’Farrell is hoping to inspire, with an API that gives developers access to a growing arsenal of body scans.To build out that API, his company just picked up $8 million in investor funding in a round led by Intel Capital.The technology it take...
Faces Sucked By Smartphone - SUR-FAKE Series
[Design]
2015/11/12 11:49
The fascinating SUR-FAKE series by Antoine Geiger shows faces sucked by smartphones and screens.As people take the subway, walk to work and sit in bed, it’s likely to find them in a semi-trance-like state, staring vacantly at their shining smartphone screens. seized by the hazy glow of their devices, groups of tourists in museums and couples at restaurants seem more engrossed by digital object...
(Infographic) U.S. Economy at a Glance
[Investing]
2015/11/12 10:52
We live in a globalized world where virtually all countries interact with each other. As a result the economy has become increasingly complex. Despite this (or perhaps just because of it), it is important to know what is going on in the world around you. After all, well-informed citizens make better decisions. However, being an informed citizen is easier said than done these days. We are confro...
(PDF) Mckinsey - 4 Fundamentals of Workplace Automation
[Business]
2015/11/11 11:54
As the automation of physical and knowledge work advances, many jobs will be redefined rather than eliminated—at least in the short term.The potential of artificial intelligence and advanced robotics to perform tasks once reserved for humans is no longer reserved for spectacular demonstrations by the likes of IBM’s Watson, Rethink Robotics’ Baxter, DeepMind, or Google’s driverless car. Just...
