Israel’s Diagnoz.me proposes a new home-based approach to diagnosing infections: a disposable smartphone add-on that analyzes bodily fluid samples.If your eye is oozing and red and you suspect you have an infection, you have to make an appointment with your doctor and get a lab analysis before you can start treatment with antibiotics.Physicist-turned-biologist Ariel Livne wondered if the whole...

‘Pac’ is a personal, autonomous concierge system imagined by fynn.design as the future of delivering packages.The project seeks to transform the current mode of parcel transportation as currently many do not reach their destinations and couriers are contributing to a large percentage of urban congestion. this proposal imagines parcel distribution of the future by creating a driverless service...

Consumers are more likely to purchase from a company that provides consistent, relevant content. Information, not perfection.Brands that want to garner consumer trust might want to steer clear of Photoshop when working on their content, new data from digital experience platform WP Engine and The Center for Generational Kinetics suggests.Brands that want to garner consumer trust might want to st...

It's time for a consumer-centred metric: introducing 'return on experience'.PwC’s 10th annual Global Consumer Insights Survey (GCIS) — which gathers the sentiments of more than 21,000 online consumers in 27 territories — shows that in addition to the traditional return on investment (ROI) metrics used to determine a company’s success, we need to introduce another metric, one with a laser fo...

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists have created such a mobile skin bioprinting system—the first of its kind—that allows bi-layered skin to be printed directly into a wound.Imagine a day when a bioprinter filled with a patient's own cells can be wheeled right to the bedside to treat large wounds or burns by printing skin, layer by layer, to begin the healing pro...

NTT DoCoMo has conducted a demonstration experiment of the bicycle "STAMP BIKE" where the run trace becomes an advertisement on March 19 for one day. The place is Shibuya Stream Inaribashi Square in Shibuya, Tokyo.We improve bicycle sharing service "docomo bike share" which DOCOMO operates and use as advertising means. Install special tires and pumps on docomo bike share bicycles. The water bui...

The business world has undergone considerable change in the last two decades.While some fortunes are always reliably passed on to their respective heirs and heiresses, there are also entirely new industries that rise out of nowhere to shape the landscape of global wealth.As the wealth landscape shifts, so does its geographical distribution.The 2019 List of BillionairesToday’s chart uses data f...

Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones. When an employee needs to move to a new city for a few months, they’re either stuck in bland, giant apartment complexes or Airbnbs meant for shorter stays. But Zeus lets any homeowner get paid to host white-collar transient labor. Through its managed ownership model, Zeus takes on all the furnishing, upkeep, and risk of filling t...

Don’t be fooled by the term “digital transformation.” The profound changes that business leaders live with day in and day out are made possible by digital technology. But just as important are the surprising and unexpected ways that people interact with technology. Recognizing that provides clarity and focus, and highlights the need to get technologists and experts with deep customer empathy...