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High-End Coffee Retailer Blue Bottle Coffee Has Raised an Additional $70M
[Investing]
2015/06/08 11:04
Why people are crazy about Blue Bottle, the coffee chain that just raised another $70 million from tech investors.High-end coffee retailer Blue Bottle Coffee, a favorite of the tech community, has received an additional $70 million in funding from several big-name tech investors and Fidelity Management and Research. Tetragon Financial Group, Morgan Stanley, Index Ventures, True Ventures, Bono,...
(Video) Batteriser is a $2.50 Gadget That Extends Disposable Battery Life by 800%
[Tech]
2015/06/08 11:04
Bob Roohparvar tells a killer story of industrial espionage. He says the robbery occurred last October at his Batteroo office space in a sprawling Silicon Valley office park. The target was intellectual property surrounding Batteriser, a simple metal sleeve that promises to give consumers up to eight times more life from their disposable batteries, AAA through D.The crooks clearly knew the buil...
The First-Ever "Female Viagra" Moves Closer to Market
[Tech]
2015/06/08 11:03
After an intense lobbying campaign, a federal advisory panel recommended approval of what would become the first drug to treat a lack of sexual desire in women.The move was immediately hailed by some women’s organizations as a step toward sexual equality by, in effect, giving women their counterpart to Viagra, the widely prescribed drug for male erectile dysfunction.By a vote of 18-6, the advi...
(Video) No More Bumper Bullies with Fiat’s Latest Billboard
[Business]
2015/06/08 11:03
This experiential campaign for Fiat makes use of the car's ultrasound parking sensors to help Germans parallel park.Earlier this week we brought to your attention a nifty billboard that switches displays when it senses the presence of authorities, and another that gets people to exercise. It seems we’ve found a niche, as today we showcase another very novel use of this old advertising medium:...
(Video) Elegant Device Physically Displays Tomorrow’s Weather In A Box
[Product]
2015/06/08 11:03
This weather device elegantly simulates tomorrow’s forecast in a small translucent box. Designed by Ken Kawanmoto, the novel device called the ‘Tempescope’ is an ambient physical display that visualizes weather conditions like rain, clouds and lightning. The device receives weather forecasts from the Internet, displaying tomorrow’s forecast in your living room. The Tempescope started as a w...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Connecting Talent with Oopportunity in the Digital Age
[Business]
2015/06/07 11:10
Labor markets around the world haven’t kept pace with rapid shifts in the global economy, and their inefficiencies have taken a heavy toll. Millions of people cannot find work, even as sectors from technology to healthcare struggle to fill open positions. Many who do work feel overqualified or underutilized. These issues translate into costly wasted potential for the global economy. More impor...
(Video) 20-Year-Old To Launch World’s First Ocean Cleaning System In 2016
[Tech]
2015/06/07 11:09
Boyan Slat is not a typical 20-year-old. After the Dutch native went on a diving trip in Greece where he saw more plastic than marine life, he resolved to do something about it. An estimated 300 million tons of plastic are produced and thrown away every year. Given that the stuff doesn't break down easily over time, this is extremely bad news for the environments in which it accumulates. For ex...
The Sharing Economy Has Created 17 Billion-Dollar Companies (and 10 Unicorns)
[Investing]
2015/06/07 11:08
Sharing is big business. Big big business.There are now 17 billion-dollar companies with 60,000 employees and $15 billion in funding in the sharing or collaborative economy, according to Jeremiah Owyang and VB Profiles, a market intelligence firm partly owned by VB. That includes the venerable eBay, founded in the dim mists of technological antiquity, and relative newcomers Etsy, Chegg, WeWork,...
(Video) Here Active Listening - Change The Way You Hear The World
[Product]
2015/06/07 11:07
Use two wireless buds and a smartphone app to control what you hear and how you hear it.HERE IS A WIRELESS INTERACTIVE LISTENING SYSTEMThrough two truly wireless, in-ear buds and a smartphone app, Here allows you to instantly control real world audio so you can hear what you want to hear - no matter the situation - and be fully immersed in your audio environment.Here does not stream or play rec...
Google : Humans will be Hybrids by 2030
[Tech]
2015/06/07 11:06
In the future, humans are going to be artificially intelligent.That's the prediction of Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google (GOOGL, Tech30), who spoke Wednesday at the Exponential Finance conference in New York.Kurzweil predicts that humans will become hybrids in the 2030s. That means our brains will be able to connect directly to the cloud, where there will be thousands of computer...
Synaptics SmartBar Brings Capacitive Touch Capabilities to the Spacebar
[Tech]
2015/06/07 11:05
Synaptics' SmartBar technology turns the spacebar into a customizable touch interface.Numerous manufacturers have been integrating touchpads into keyboards for a while now – some of which even boast touch panels that that allow switching between different modes. But San Jose-based Synaptics is taking touch technology where it has never been before. Its SmartBar technology turns the spacebar in...
BMW's Parking System Tells You Where to Find Available On-Street Spaces
[Tech]
2015/06/07 11:05
The Dynamic Parking Prediction system is based on an algorithm that uses digital map and fleet data to calculate local parking options.Trying to find a place to park your car in busy areas can be stressful and time-consuming. BMW's new Dynamic Parking Prediction system is aimed at making things a bit easier. The research project uses digital mapping and fleet data to predict where there will be...
