Nanotech bio-antenna that interacts with electrical signals in your body, naturally relieving pain.When you wear Kailo, it interacts with the body’s electrical system. Each patented Kailo™ contains billions of charged nanocapacitors that work as a bio antenna, assisting the body in clear communication and reducing the signals that cause pain.Electricity is everywhere, even in the human body....

Elephant in a Box sofas are able to expand and recover their shape after being unpacked.Boston-based husband and wife team Mohamed Kamal and Reham Khalifa have launched an innovative sofa product on Kickstarter. Designed to change the way we buy and move sofas, the Elephant In A Box is a collapsible sofa that comes delivered in a compact box and, according to its creators, takes less than five...

Since the 2008 financial crisis, global private wealth has been steadily growing. In fact, overall private wealth worldwide reached $204 trillion in 2018, which is a 26% increase over the past decade.This week’s chart, which uses numbers from the Global Wealth Migration Review 2019, examines the top 10 richest countries and the growth of private wealth from 2008 to 2018.These trends are stayin...

Amazon might be working on a smart watch that can sense your feelings.Alexa, how am I feeling today? Amazon may be getting into the business of reading your emotions. The teams behind Amazon's Echo smart speaker and Alexa's voice are joining up to build a voice-activated wearable for your wrist, according to Bloomberg, citing an anonymous source.The smart watch or smart band will reportedly hav...

As health care industry leaders look to shape the future of care and establish a sustainable smart health community, how can they better collaborate with stakeholders—both within the health care ecosystem and those in converging industries?As the US health care industry moves toward a financial model that is based on value rather than volume, keeping people healthy and out of the hospital will...

The New York Times found that some 25 percent of Google’s controversial AI-powered Duplex robo-callers actually turn out to be humans in call centers.Google has come a long way in making their automated calling feature sound exactly like a real person, but the report shows that it still heavily relies on humans to perfect the system.Mr. RobotGoogle’s Duplex feature, announced last year, was c...

Realtime Robotics’ motion-planning processor helps autonomous cars make better decisions.While most autonomous cars rely on motion-planning systems running at a rate of between 3 Hz and 10 Hz, Realtime Robotics' system runs at 1,000 Hz, going through a massive data lattice of possible trajectories in parallel.About two years ago, we covered a research project from Duke University that sped up...

The ability to target advertising based on demographic traits, past purchases or personal interests is arguably the biggest appeal of online advertising from an advertiser’s point of view. For consumers however, targeted ads can be a painful reminder that we’re never really alone on the internet, and it’s safe to say that targeted (or retargeted) ads have given away plenty of birthday surpri...

Mother Dirt is adding to its stable of microbiome-friendly products. Can the brand help consumers rethink their hygiene habits?When Mother Dirt first launched in 2015, the skincare line’s bold take on personal hygiene challenged long-accepted public health concepts. The young brand infused live-cultured bacterium into its face sprays and lotions, claiming our society was far, far too clean. We...