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(Video) Autonomous Robotic Window Cleaner Takes First Place at Intel ISEF
[Tech]
2018/05/23 09:57
Oliver Nicholls, recipient of the 2018 Gordon E Moore Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, with his prize-winning automated robotic window cleaner prototype.Intel's International Science and Engineering Fair has been running for a number of years, with previous winners developing an inexpensive self-driving vehicle system, a cancer-detecting software tool, and a system...
MIT and BMW are Building the Stretchy, Inflatable Future of Cars
[Tech]
2018/05/23 09:57
Imagine being able to change your car’s interior at the press of a button. Thanks to MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, it’s not as far-fetched as it sounds.“Air is pretty cheap,” says Skylar Tibbits, the co-director and founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT’s International Design Center. He’s making a point about inflatables, which could be useful for designers of everything from packaging to s...
(Infographic) Why ‘Transformists’ Are the Demographic Brands Should Be Targeting
[Consumer]
2018/05/23 09:57
There are 38 million in the U.S.While millennials may be the hottest demographic for marketers to target, research by Insider Inc. and Digitas says they’re not the most powerful influencers—and that we shouldn’t be focusing so much on generations in the first place. A recent study identifies a new group of people cutting across age groups and backgrounds that brands should be chasing: the “...
CoinDesk Releases Q1 2018 State of Blockchain Report
[Investing]
2018/05/22 09:10
After reaching historic highs in 2017, cryptocurrencies languished across multiple fundamental metrics in this year's first quarter. Unease permeated the industry, mostly from regulatory uncertainty and pull-back after a year of parabolic growth.To shed light on a tumultuous Q1, CoinDesk's latest State of Blockchain report provides a 90-plus slide analysis of some of the most significant data p...
AI Made These Paintings
[Tech]
2018/05/22 09:09
Less than a year after he got his high school diploma and left Shenandoah Junction, W.Va., for Silicon Valley, Robbie Barrat began teaching computers to paint. He fed a few thousand examples of paintings into his artificial intelligence software until it learned how to create landscapes like the one on this issue’s cover. By computer standards, these works of art took a long time to produce: a...
How Heavy Use of Social Media is Linked to Mental Illness
[Consumer]
2018/05/22 09:08
Youngsters report problems with anxiety, depression, sleep and “FoMO”MAY 20th will mark the end of “mental-health awareness week”, a campaign run by the Mental Health Foundation, a British charity. Roughly a quarter of British adults have been diagnosed at some point with a psychiatric disorder, costing the economy an estimated 4.5% of GDP per year. Such illnesses have many causes, but a gr...
Brands Create Interactive Print Advertisements
[Design]
2018/05/22 09:07
When it comes to advertising, digital isn’t necessarily supreme. Young consumers also respond well to brands that engage them via offline experiences and even through analog mediums, including print magazines. Brands are reflecting the latter by releasing print advertisements with interactive components, from scents and sounds to fold-out items.Ikea Ikea is addressing society’s recent focus o...
(PDF) Mckinsey - China’s Fast Climb Up The Value Chain
[Business]
2018/05/22 09:06
From high-tech unicorns to specialty chemicals, the country’s economy is moving swiftly beyond its lower-margin roots.[click to enlarge]The Chinese are now the world’s most avid online purchasers of goods and services, which they are likely to pay for with a mobile device. The deepening digital ethos reflects a broader consumerization of the Chinese economy. These trends are creating fertile...
(PDF) Topical Skin Lotion to Detect Variety of Disease Biomarkers
[Tech]
2018/05/22 09:05
Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a new way of utilizing nanotechnology to detect important biomarkers within the skin using what looks like a simple lotion.Their NanoFlares, which are spherical, programmable nano-scale balls of nucleic acid, have gold cores. These NanoFlares are able to penetrate the skin and meet up with biochemicals within. When t...
