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Instead Of A Plastic Toothbrush, Now You Can Brush Your Teeth With... A Twig ?
[Product]
2015/04/15 11:30
An old tradition is being repackaged as a sleek new startup product. We might stick with our trusty Oral-B, thank you very much.Before the modern toothbrush existed, people cleaned their teeth by chewing on twigs--and in some parts of the world, the practice is still common. Now, a startup is trying to popularize a modern day stick-as-toothbrush in the U.S.The small stick, called a miswak (in A...
Massachusetts General Unveils Smartphone Device for Diagnosing Cancer
[Tech]
2015/04/15 11:30
A team from Massachusetts General Hospital has developed new technology that converts a smartphone into a tool for cancer diagnosis. The approach, called D3 (digital diffraction diagnosis), consists of a dongle that sits on top of the phone’s camera and specially designed microbeads that bind to cancer cells that can then be imaged using the phone.By quantifying the number of tumor-marker-targ...
Galactic Gadgetry
[Design]
2015/04/15 11:30
What would computers look like twenty years from now? Holograms? 3D projections? Or just really sexy looking gadgets? The Neptune gadget suite has pretty much convinced me that technology in the future will be built in families of gadgets and softwares constructed to provide us with a unified experience, no matter what product you use.The Neptune Suite is a clan of products and softwares made t...
US Map Of The Signature Dish Of Each State
[Product]
2015/04/15 11:29
This is a map compiled by Playboy using data from AskReddit (sounds legit) showing each state's signature dish. [click to enlarge]Rocky Mountain Oysters are bull balls, by the way. It all looks very suspect. Particularly Arkansas's meth cookies. Congratulations to the three states that got beer, and to Kentucky for bourbon. I guess beer and bourbon are officially considered dishes now, even out...
(Patent) How Google is Making Sure Cows Won’t Foil Its Self-Driving Cars
[Tech]
2015/04/14 11:04
Most of us haven’t had a cow wander on to a road in front of us while we’re driving. Still, it’s the type of situation Google is wisely anticipating. Here the “draw new [trajectory]” button is selected and a new route is drawn to get around the bovine. (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)A significant challenge for self-driving cars will be handing edge cases, essentially rare situations on...
This Ad Campaign Starts With Cool Cinemagraphs on Instagram
[Business]
2015/04/14 11:04
Then Follows Up on Facebook Stuart Weitzman puts the latest marketing tools to the testInstagram and Facebook are more entwined than ever, especially for advertisers, who now have a potentially powerful new marketing strategy?using video ads on one to drive sales on the other. Stuart Weitzman, the fashion brand, is one of the first marketers to buy video ads on Instagram, and then send product...
Smartphones Reach Nearly 77 % Penetration In US
[Business]
2015/04/14 11:04
comScore released its latest US smartphone market-share data (February 2015). It asserts that 76.6 percent of the US mobile subscriber population now owns a smartphone. That will easily take us to 80 percent or beyond by year end.The data also show Samsung losing market share vs. November 2014 and LG gaining. Operating system market share numbers are relatively static.I’ve graphed comScore sma...
Early Apple Watch Data : Average U.S. Pre-Order was $707
[Product]
2015/04/14 11:04
Unofficial estimates for U.S. pre-orders are probably low but give a solid glimpse into the mix watch sales, with Space Gray aluminum and a black Sport band being the most popular.I wondered why, just six minutes after Apple Watch pre-orders began at 3am ET last Friday, my watch wouldn't arrive for 4-6 weeks. The apparent reason? I was choosing the combination of case and band that was most pop...
(Video) Gillette Rebuilt With Avengers-Inspired Technology
[Business]
2015/04/14 11:04
Gillette Innovation Explodes With Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America and Thor Razors Fun spoof of category's clich?s Maybe you've let your beard get a bit grimy?winter did seem to last forever?and you could use a nice, clean shave for spring. But gosh darn it, your beard has gotten too mighty.Could a superhero-infused razor conquer your super masculine mound of face hair? Well, you're in luck: Gil...
How Facebook Dominates Online Communication
[Business]
2015/04/14 11:03
Soon, Facebook could be the dominant force in how we communicate online. According to data compiled by BI Intelligence, Facebook is not only the biggest social network, but also owns the second-largest social network and the two largest messaging apps.Facebook's monthly active user base is expected to surpass 1.43 billion in the first quarter of 2015. That's nearly twice the size of Facebook-ow...
Fujitsu Tech Could Bring Us Liquid-Cooled Smartphones
[Tech]
2015/04/14 11:03
Fujitsu Develops Thin Cooling Device for Compact ElectronicsAlthough there definitely are liquid-cooled PCs, there just isn't room for such cooling systems within smartphones ? or at least, there hasn't been until now. Fujitsu recently announced development of a loop heat pipe that's less than one millimeter thick, which could help future mobile devices to keep their cool.A diagram of the loop...
Fraunhofer - Saving Energy with Smart Fa?ades
[Tech]
2015/04/14 11:03
The fa?ade element operates using integrated shape-memory alloys and so doesn’t require an external power source. Glass-fronted office buildings are some of the biggest energy consumers, and regulating their temperature is a big job. Now a fa?ade element developed by Fraunhofer researchers and designers for glass fronts is to reduce energy consumption by harnessing solar thermal energy. A demo...
