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Jackery’s Autonomous Robot has Expandable Solar Panels to Produce More Clean Energy
[Design]
2023/12/12 09:03
Energy company Jackery conceptualizes the Solar Mars Bot, an autonomous roving robot equipped with multiple solar panels to generate clean energy using sunlight like an electric charging station. A striking feature of the autonomous robot is its ability to swivel and expand the multiple solar panels like a Swiss Army Knife, enabling it to absorb more sunlight. Jackery states that the Solar Mars...
Pantone's Color of the Year for 2024 Is 'Peach Fuzz'
[Design]
2023/12/11 09:10
Pantone has just just announced “Peach Fuzz” or PANTONE 13-1023,” the 2024 Color of the Year. Known for its color standards and digital solutions in the design community, Pantone announced the color aiming to move towards empathy and understanding. A hue between pink and orange, the color is soft and inviting and offers “tenderness and communicating a message of caring, community, and colla...
(Infographic) 50 Most Visited AI Tools and Their 24B+ Traffic Behavior
[Business]
2023/12/11 09:09
AI has been an omnipresent theme over the past year, pushing boundaries and redefining several industries in a short space of time. [click to enlarge]An astounding number of over 24 billion visits were generated from September 2022 to August 2023 by just the top 50 AI tools, with an average monthly growth of 236.3 million visits.Out of this massive number, ChatGPT alone accounted for 14 billion...
Meet The First Spanish AI Model Earning Up to €10,000 Per Month
[Business]
2023/12/11 09:08
Aitana, 25, a pink-haired woman from Barcelona, receives weekly private messages from celebrities asking her out. But this model is not real. Aitana, the first Spanish model created by artificial intelligence, was born in the middle of a difficult period.Last summer, Rubén Cruz, her designer and founder of the agency The Clueless, was going through a rough patch because he didn't have many cli...
(PDF) BCG - Marketing Science Is the Path to Profitability for Subscription Media
[Business]
2023/12/11 09:07
Subscription media companies need margin-based marketing approaches that let them reach high-value audiences cost effectively. Precision analytics and AI can help.The unit economics of subscription media models have become much more challenging. The top ten biggest streaming platforms saw average acquisition plummet from 51% year-over-year growth in 2020 down to single digits in 2023.With valua...
Lexus Uveils 8 Minutes and 20 Seconds Installation at Miami Art & Design Week
[Design]
2023/12/11 09:06
Lexus has unveiled 8 Minutes and 20 Seconds, an installation by Dutch solar designer Marjan van Aubel, in the sculpture garden at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami). Brimming with life and colour, the striking solar sculpture reimagines the Lexus LF-ZC (Future Zero-emission Catalyst) concept car as an interactive experience through van Aubel’s trademark use of solar cells. Th...
How to Reach Gen Z in 2024
[Consumer]
2023/12/11 09:05
Gen Z is different from older generations. They are digitally native, spend more time watching videos, and have embraced the overlap between media and technology. But Gen Z has some particular habits marketers should pay attention to.1. Gen Z hates bad memesThe No. 2 “ick” or undesirable trait among Gen Zers is a bad sense of humor and taste in memes, ranked behind chewing with mouths open, a...
(Paper) Needle-Free Vaccine Patch Offers Protection Against Zika Virus in Preclinical Trial
[Tech]
2023/12/11 09:04
A simple-to-apply, needle-free vaccine patch is being developed to protect people from the potentially deadly mosquito-borne Zika virus.A prototype using The University of Queensland-developed and Vaxxas-commercialized high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) has delivered a University of Adelaide-developed vaccine and elicited an effective immune response to Zika virus in mice.The research is pu...
Chipotle Mexican Grill Begins Selling Car Napkin Holders
[Product]
2023/12/11 09:03
With Christmas just around the corner, Chipotle Mexican Grill has unveiled a series of holiday gifts for superfans. This year’s collection features unique items tailored for loyal customers, including a napkin holder and a series of artist-designed Mystery Tees.Chipotle Mexican Grill announced its latest Chipotle Goods merch drop just in time for holiday gifting. Starting November 30 at 9 a.m....
(Patent) Apple Explores Whole Family of ‘Ring-Shaped’ Devices For Fingers
[Tech]
2023/12/08 09:10
Apple is once again running circles around the frontier of wearable technology with a patent that hints at an innovative ecosystem of smart rings. The tech giant has already served up numerous design concepts for this category—and now, the latest envisions tech that’s not only for the fingers but for the wrists, ankles, neck, arms, legs, “and/or other body part[s]” too.As picked up by Apple...
(PDF) BCG - A Generative AI Roadmap for Financial Institutions
[Business]
2023/12/08 09:09
In just a decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed from a promising research topic into an accessible and pivotal technology at the center of a new industrial revolution. AI is reshaping fundamental processes and functions across entire industries, from drug development and airline scheduling to supply chain optimization and medical imaging. AI is no longer a concept of the future—...
(Paper) AI Software MeshGPT Generates High-Quality 3D Models
[Tech]
2023/12/08 09:08
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich and the Politecnico di Torino have developed the MeshGPT software together with Audi. It uses generative AI methods to generate high-quality 3D mesh models.Compared to existing approaches, the accuracy of the generated 3D models has been significantly improved. MeshGPT achieves a 9 percent higher coverage of the reference shapes and 30 points be...
