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(Patent) Apple Patents Much More Powerful iPhone's Home Button
[Tech]
2015/05/18 11:47
Apple has a crazy idea for the iPhone's home button that could make it much more powerful and useful.The iPhone's home button is already a crucial part of the experience — in addition to using it when you want to exit an app, the fingerprint sensor in newer iPhones lets you unlock your phone and verify your identity.Now, a recently published Apple patent application provides more evidence that...
(PDF) BCG - Investors Anticipate a Soft Landing
[Investing]
2015/05/18 11:47
Global equity markets continued to deliver positive returns in 2014, but investors appear to be preparing for a soft landing, with below-average total shareholder return in the years ahead.According to BCG’s latest annual investor survey, investors are looking for companies to focus squarely on creating fundamental value and to manage their free cash flow carefully in order to defend themselve...
(Video) Ice Statues Leave Behind Organs, Encourage Us to Do the Same
[Business]
2015/05/18 11:47
The 'Ice Men' were placed on the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil with the message that life goes on.Beneficência Portuguesa Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil has launched a campaign to encourage more organ donations. The hospital is seen as a benchmark when it comes to organ transplants in the area as it boasts a renowned medical staff that performs heart, liver, kidney, bone marrow, cornea and panc...
The Future of Wind Turbines ? No Blades, Vortex
[Tech]
2015/05/18 11:47
The Vortex is a new kind of wind turbine being developed without any blades. IT’S NO LONGER SURPRISING TO encounter 100-foot pinwheels spinning in the breeze as you drive down the highway. But don’t get too comfortable with that view. A Spanish company called Vortex Bladeless is proposing a radical new way to generate wind energy that will once again upend what you see outside your car window...
A Metal Compsite That Will Float Your Boat
[Tech]
2015/05/18 11:47
Researchers have developed the lightest weight metal matrix foam--light enough to float on water in a beaker in the NYU laboratory of Dr. Nikhil Gupta.Researchers have demonstrated a new metal matrix composite that is so light that it can float on water. A boat made of such lightweight composites will not sink despite damage to its structure. The new material also promises to improve automotive...
(Video) Solar Bike - A Solar Powered Electric Bicycle from Denmark
[Design]
2015/05/18 11:47
Nine years ago TreeHugger Warren wrote the headline Solar Powered Electric Bicycle. Now We're Talking. It drew sixty comments (a lot at the time) complaining that the wheels were a stupid place to put the photovoltaics. Alas, that bike was vaporware but Eric Jaffe of Citylab points us to today's version, the Solarbike designed by Jesper Frausig in Denmark.So much has changed in that time. Photo...
(Infographic) Here are South Korea’s 15 Top-funded Startups
[Investing]
2015/05/18 11:46
Here’s the latest installment of our country-by-country top-funded startups series – South Korea.Our newest infographic shows South Korea’s 15 top-funded startups as they stand at present, along with a few of the biggest-name VCs to have backed them. Ecommerce is the most represented category on the list, highlighting that new, homegrown tech firms are still fighting hard in this well-develo...
Light Dish Highlights Your Food for Unique Experience
[Design]
2015/05/18 11:13
What if an everyday object such a plate becomes an interactive gadget? The Light Dish was thought to bring a new dining experience. Originally, the dish was designed with a focus on a molecular gastronomy, where food meets art and science. The light dish highlights food in a new, unexpected way, creating soft and diffused light. The top of the dish is made of Corian solid surface that hides a L...
(Infographic) How Steve Jobs Started – The Life Of Apple’s Founder
[Business]
2015/05/17 11:10
Apple just announced its first new product category since the iPad. And since Steve Jobs. Follow his life path to see how he learned to create and think like a genius, as told by Walter Isaacson.How Steve Jobs Started – The Winding PathAs people around the world wondered if innovation at Apple had stopped with Steve Jobs, we want to share with you a snapshot of the genius’s life. How did Stev...
(Video) Smartphone Optical Data Communication Technology from Panasonic
[Tech]
2015/05/17 11:09
Panasonic has developed technology for using an LED as the light source so that smartphones can read optical ID signals containing various kinds of information."On the LED side, technology for communicating information through LEDs flashing at high speed has been utilized before. However, to make such information readable with an ordinary smartphone, the system used fluctuations in brightness t...
Samsung is Imploding in China
[Business]
2015/05/17 11:08
Samsung has seen a catastrophic collapse in China over the last year, with its smartphone sales market share halving in 12 months, according to new data from IDC.In Q1 of 2014, Samsung shipped 20.5 million smartphones; in Q1 of 2015, that figure has plummeted to 9.6 million.Meanwhile, Apple has enjoyed year-on-year growth of more than 62%, making it the single-largest smartphone seller in China...
(PDF) Mckinsey - CEO Succession Starts with Developing Your Leaders
[Business]
2015/05/17 11:07
Focusing on future priorities and debiasing decisions help, too.Two-thirds of US public and private companies still admit that they have no formal CEO succession plan in place, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Corporate Directors last year.1 And only one-third of the executives who told headhunter Korn Ferry this year that their companies do have such a program wer...
