A video of a giant amazon blimp deploying a swarm of delivery drones has made the rounds on twitter this week, showing what one user described as a ‘borderline dystopian’ image of the future. While the origin of this video has something, in part, to do with April Fool’s day, there’s some truth to this concept too. Amazon has, for long, been experimenting with aerial deliveries, sending unma...

Researchers in MIT’s Open Agriculture Initiative grow basil under controlled environmental conditions to study how taste and other features are affected.Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features.What goes into making plants taste good? For scientists in MIT’s Media Lab, it takes a combination of botany, machine-learning algorithms, and some go...

A retailer can now use geospatial analytics to understand the interactions between its online and offline channels. With these insights, it can create a higher-performing retail network.Is our outlet store in San Francisco hurting foot traffic and sales at our full-price store two miles away? Or is it doing the opposite—attracting new customers and making them more likely to visit both stores?...

The world’s largest pizza company announced that it is working with Xevo Inc., the global leader of in-vehicle commerce and services for automakers, to launch an AnyWare pizza ordering platform that will be pre-loaded in cars starting later this year.“At Domino’s, we want pizza ordering to be simple and always within reach, no matter where a customer happens to be,” Chris Roeser, director o...

What if windows were timber’s next architectural frontier ?For centuries, window frames and glass panes have remained inseparable. While it’s nearly impossible to envision a window without glass by its side, like most relationships, theirs hasn’t been without hiccups or challenges worth solving. Glass has championed the world of windows for its incredible ability to completely block moisture...

It’s probably accurate to say that we have all had a bad experience when getting a parcel delivered, whether its arrived late or never turned up at all, its certainly a frustrating occurrence. With this in mind, designer Fynn Eckstein set out to create a solution, and this came in the form of PAC.PAC is an autonomous concierge system that may just give us an insight into the future of parcel d...

At a glance, it may seem like the world’s biggest technology companies have a lot in common.For starters, all five of the Big Tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet) have emerged as some of the most valuable publicly-traded companies in the world, with founders such as Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates sitting atop the global billionaire list.These tech giants also have a cons...

Marie Kondo inspired us to throw away all our non-joyous items, sparking what’s now a booming resale apparel market. So just how big is the industry capitalizing on secondhand goods? Fashion resale destination site thredUp reveals it’s a $24 billion market, projected to double to $51 billion by 2024.The 2019 thredUp Resale Report, in conjunction with GlobalData, analyzed the trends and driver...

Lenovo's foldable smartphone has a unique design.Through the looking glass: In the absence of an explanation from Lenovo, this seems like one of the most blatant examples yet of a foldable device lacking practicality or utility. Just because it can fold doesn't necessarily mean it should fold if it serves no purpose.Samsung and Huawei have taken an early lead in the foldable smartphone race but...