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Tennis Court Boasts Ocean Life as Spectators
[Design]
2015/06/21 11:07
Following the Dubai tradition of dreaming big, 8+8 Concept Studio imagines a curved glass dome that may house tomorrow's Wimbledons.Any athletic stakes would feel all the more grandiose and royal under the ocean-filtered light of design firm 8+8 Concept Studio‘s bold undertaking: an underwater tennis facility fit for the imagination-shattering dimensions we’ve come to expect from Dubai’s amb...
(Patent) Microsoft Issues Patent for 3D Depth Scanning Camera & Software
[Tech]
2015/06/21 11:06
Microsoft, the American multinational tech giant was issued with a patent for a technology which generates 3d models of real life objects through a simple scanning process with Microsoft’s static depth camera.Users of Microsoft’s 3d scanning software could rotate an object in front of Microsoft’s static depth camera, which will then create a holistic, detailed and accurate 3d scans of object...
3D-Printed Objects Created Entirely from Wood Cellulose
[Tech]
2015/06/21 11:05
The same material that gives trees their structural integrity can now be used to 3D print tiny chairs, electrical circuits, and other objects.The 3D printing revolution brings with it a harmful side effect: the special inks that it uses are derived (for the most part) from environmentally-unfriendly processes involving fossil fuels and toxic byproducts. But now scientists at Chalmers University...
Reinventing the Night Light - Aumi
[Product]
2015/06/21 11:04
Aumi is a bluetooth enabled, multi-color, rechargeable LED night light that you control with your phone.Aumi is the smartest Night Light you'll ever own. It's a Bluetooth enabled, portable, multi-colored nightlight that you control with your smart phone or tablet. What can I do with Aumi? Turn the light on or off, choose from over 16 million color options, set it to automatically turn on when d...
(infographic) A Startup Founder’s Guide to New York
[Business]
2015/06/21 11:03
On Wall Street you can mix with prominent venture capital firms and angel investors. New York has already surpassed Silicon Valley in the number of IPOs. There’s also been a 33% increase in tech jobs in New York City over the past 4 years.The most funded non-exited tech companies between 2009 and 2014 include giant like Vice, Fab, Gilt and MongoDB. And the biggest venture-capital-backed tech e...
(PDF) Bain&Company : Front Line of Healthcare Report 2015
[Business]
2015/06/18 11:10
The shifting US healthcare landscape by the numbers.For those working on the front line of US healthcare, the pace of change must seem unrelenting. Powerful forces are affecting physician practice and healthcare institutions, and this has major implications for how we pay for care, how physicians make decisions and deliver care, and how organizations purchase and use drugs and devices. Although...
Tracking MERS
[Consumer]
2015/06/18 11:09
A look at how South Korea became the home of the second-largest outbreak of the rare and deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.South Korea’s first patient arrived from the Middle East in May and infected others as he sought medical attention. A look at the virus’s path:[wallstreetjournal]
The Disruptive Effect of Open-Source Startups
[Investing]
2015/06/18 11:08
The open-source software movement started in the late 1990s. Since then, open-source software has transformed the software industry. Today, many infrastructure software startups employ open-source strategies to market their software and win dominant market share.Open-source is a disruptive distribution strategy. It allows potential users and buyers of a software to try it, evaluate it, and unde...
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Gains High-Speed Momentum
[Design]
2015/06/18 11:07
The high-speed public transit proposal from uber-entrepreneur Elon Musk moves to the concept design stage.The Hyperloop is a high-speed transport system where cargo, individuals, and vehicles travel at supersonic speeds inside tubes laced with cushions of air. This ground transport system was proposed by entrepreneur Elon Musk.The system’s tubes will be pushed through a highly pressurized cyli...
So Many Apps, So Much More Time for Entertainment
[Consumer]
2015/06/18 11:06
Over the span of just a few years, the concept of app usage has transformed from a novelty to an essential part of the mobile user experience. With millions of apps now available and more being rolled out every day, there is an app for everyone, regardless of age, race or interest.But while marketers and app developers continue to add functionality and robustness to apps, they also must effecti...
It’s Not Hard to See Why Big Banks are Going Crazy over New Technology
[Business]
2015/06/18 11:06
By making things like payments, lending, and deposits significantly cheaper and easier, technology firms have brought some serious disruption to the banking industry's decades-old business model.It’s why big banks like JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are doubling down on adopting new technology. By doing so, big banks can cut costs and save a lot of money.One area to look at is the mobile rem...
Inkless Printing Manipulates Light at The Nanoscale to Produce Colors
[Tech]
2015/06/18 11:03
Taking advantage of the unique light absorbing properties of plasmonic metatamaterials, researchers have printed color images using nanoscale holes instead of ink.Using nanometer-size metamaterials, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a technique to print images that uses the manipulation of light, rather than the application of ink, to produce colors. Th...
