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Short Story Vending Machines in Public Places - Short Edition
[Business]
2015/11/05 11:02
French publishing company Short Edition prints out receipt-like short stories to encourage commuters to kill time by reading.We recently saw commuters in Romania given free tickets for reading instead of using their smartphones. Residents of the French town of Grenoble are also being encouraged to make time for reading in their daily schedules.Short Edition, a French publishing company, has ins...
The PuzzlePhone - Design To Last
[Design]
2015/11/05 11:01
The PuzzlePhone is a modular smartphone designed for longevity. It’s a phone that is repairable, upgradable, and tailored to meet your style and needs in a sustainable and responsible way. It’s a paradigm shift from “take, make, and waste” to “reduce, reuse, and recycle.”PuzzlePhone is built from modules. It has three easily replaceable and customizable modules: “the Brain” (electronics...
DRAS’tic Design - Drasphone
[Design]
2015/11/04 10:51
The Drasphone tries to combine two undeniably massive trends in cellular phone design. The clamshell trend of the 90s, and the present touchscreen display trend. Pioneering flexible display technology, this conceptual smartphone bends at not one, not two, but at three points! This allows you to make the Drasphone compact in two ways. Do a half fold, and you have a Squarish MiniDras, or a comple...
Apple Watch Customers Plan to Buy More Bands, Third-Party Interest increasing
[Consumer]
2015/11/04 10:51
The latest survey taken focuses primarily on Apple Watch bands by asking volunteer participants which band came with their Apple Watch at purchase, if they’ve already bought additional bands or plan to buy more, and even a question about the new Apple TV…The most popular band acquired during initial Apple Watch purchase for Wristly’s participants is rather unsurprising: Sport. The $49 band c...
(Video) Bentley Inspirator - a Luxury Commissioning Experience
[Business]
2015/11/04 10:51
Bentley's New App Uses Facial Recognition to Point You to the Ideal SUV. In what it's billing as a "luxury commissioning experience," Bentley has launched its Inspirator app with a compelling promise: To use your emotions to recommend you the perfect Bentayga SUV.VML London powered the app, available on iPad and iPhone, with emotion metric algorithms and data from 3.4 million faces across 75 co...
(M&A) Why Activision is Paying $5.9 Billion for Candy Crush Maker King
[Investing]
2015/11/04 10:51
Activision Blizzard announced it was buying King, the maker of Candy Crush, for $5.9 billion in cash, a 20% premium over King's share price at close yesterday.Why? As this chart from Statista shows, 79% of Activision's revenue today comes from selling PC, online, and console games. King, on the other hand, makes 80% of its revenue from mobile games. The combined company will be much more divers...
Who is Buying Apple Products ? Old Men.
[Consumer]
2015/11/04 10:51
Men aged 65 and older spent more on Apple devices than any other demographic group in the United States last year, according to Slice Intelligence, which tracks online shopping data.That group, though not even one-quarter of all Apple customers, spent $976 online on average per person on iGadgets.They outspent the young female demographic by more than $400. (Women 25 to 34 spent the least out o...
Facebook is Working on AI That Understands What’s in Your Photos
[Tech]
2015/11/04 10:51
To make your Newsfeed better, Facebook is working on artificial intelligence that can understand what’s going on in your photos.Speaking at Web Summit, Facebook’s CTO, Mike Schroepfer, detailed a new system the company has been developing to understand what’s happening in photos and translate that into natural language elements.One demonstration showed a photo in Newsfeed of a man skateboard...
(Video) Chargifi Raises $2.7M Led By Intel Capital To Power Wireless Charging Network
[Investing]
2015/11/04 10:50
Like WiFi before it, could wireless charging be the next value-add for coffee shops and other public venues? One startup banking on that being the case is London-headquartered Chargifi, which is building out a wireless charging network.Today the company is announcing a $2.7 million Series A round led by Intel Capital, who can also be seen as a strategic investor given that the chipmaker is on t...
(Video) Fingernails2Go Kiosk Paints Nails in Seconds, On-The-Spot
[Product]
2015/11/04 10:50
Fingernails2Go uses an inkjet printer to paint users' nails.While many women enjoy a relaxing visit to the nail salon, it's an indulgence that not everyone has time for. Additionally, skilled though they may be, most manicurists aren't able to paint photos of kids or pets onto clients' nails. By contrast, Tensator Technology Centre's new Fingernails2Go Digital Nail Art Kiosk can create user-sup...
(PDF) The 2015 Global Innovation 1000 : Innovation’s New World Order
[Business]
2015/11/03 11:39
Asia is now the top regional destination for R&D spending, followed by North America and Europe. See also Interactive: Where Companies Spend Their R&D Money.The geographic footprint of innovation is changing dramatically as research and development programs become more global. An overwhelming 94 percent of the world’s largest innovators now conduct elements of their R&D programs ab...
(Video) Luminette Light Therapy Device for Healthy Circadian Rhythms
[Product]
2015/11/03 11:39
Lucimed, a Belgian company, is releasing the new Luminette head-worn light therapy device. Bright light, particularly in the blue spectrum, is well known to control our circadian rhythms. Long winters and indoor living can severely limit how much light enters our eyes, causing all sorts of emotional issues, worsening the quality of sleep, and bringing on the dreaded Seasonal Affective Disorder....
