TREND REPORTS
(Video) GermFalcon Robot is Made to Sanitize Airliners
[Tech]
2015/04/12 11:06
A GermFalcon prototype makes its way down an airliner's aisle.Airliner cabins can get pretty germy. They're packed full of people from all over the world, who spend hours doing things like coughing, sneezing and touching surfaces with their grubby li'l hands. It was with this in mind that Arthur Kreitenberg and his son Mo created the GermFalcon. It's a robot that kills germs on planes, using ul...
Smart Pouch Reminds Women to Take Their Contraceptive Pill
[Product]
2015/04/12 11:05
Pillsy is a smart pouch and accompanying app which provides intelligent, gentle reminders to women to take their daily contraceptive pill.Nearly 50 percent of unplanned pregnancies are from women who are already using contraception: Pillsy is a smart pouch and accompanying app which hopes to drastically lower that statistic by gently reminding users to take their pill.Women who take the daily o...
MINI Augmented Vision : A Revolutionary Display Concept Offering Enhanced Comfort and Safety
[Design]
2015/04/12 11:04
Exclusive prototype of augmented reality eyewear underlines the innovative flair and creativity of the MINI brand.MINI is revealing the shape of things to come at the Auto Shanghai show with a pioneering innovation. “MINI Augmented Vision gives an insight into how intelligent connectivity between a MINI car and eyewear into which relevant content is projected might work in the future,” explai...
(Infographic) The Business of Colour Psychology
[Design]
2015/04/12 11:03
When it comes to choosing the right color for your living room, bedroom or even your business it’s important that the colour represents what your trying to achieve. From the dawn of tyrannical multinational business, color has helped brands progress. Why? Read this infographic from Chadwicks to find out. Infographic : http://infographicjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Business-of-Col...
Augmented and Virtual Reality To Hit $150 Billion, Disrupting Mobile By 2020
[Business]
2015/04/09 15:47
The augmented reality and virtual reality markets have yet to get off the ground. But market advisor Digi-Capital estimates that the combined markets will reach $150 billion by 2020.Virtual reality and augmented reality are exciting ? Google Glass coming and going, Facebook’s $2 billion for Oculus, Google’s $542 million into Magic Leap, not to mention Microsoft’s HoloLens. There are amazing...
Why In-N-Out Burger Won't Expand to the East Coast
[Business]
2015/04/09 11:09
In-N-Out burger has been holding pop-up restaurants around the world, but the burger chain will not expand to the East Coast.In-N-Out, the cult favorite burger joint of the West Coast, has been teasing the East Coast with rumors of expansion for years. The fast-food retailer has slowly expanded eastward over its 65-year lifetime to Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and more recently Texas. The company has...
The Most Popular Programming Languages are Rapidly Changing
[Tech]
2015/04/09 11:08
Technology moves fast, particularly on the software side, as Stack Overflow’s annual survey of developers demonstrates.The popular Q&A site for people who write code released results this week from a poll of more than 25,000 developers, who were queried on everything from their country of origin to their caffeine consumption to the programming languages they use most.Responses to the latte...
(Video) A Clever Shock-Absorbing Bike Wheel, Now for Wheelchairs
[Product]
2015/04/09 11:07
Loopwheels, as its called, was recently shortlisted for the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year award. When we first covered the product in 2013, cycling enthusiasts gave it a ringing endorsement, saying they were “immediately impressed at the ride quality.” Since then, Loopwheels has expanded from bikes to wheelchairs.Entreprrneurs love to claim they’re “reinventing the wheel.” So...
How Rich and Poor Spend (and Earn) Their Money
[Investing]
2015/04/09 11:07
Higher-earning consumers spend less on housing, food and health care. For many Americans, the rise in food and housing prices is a tough squeeze. That’s because?even in an era with low overall inflation?low-income Americans spend a disproportionate share of their money on food and housing.New data from the Labor Department show the extent of the discrepancy. The bottom 10% of Americans, by inc...
Which Social Networks Have the Most Engaged Audience ?
[Consumer]
2015/04/09 11:04
Social media remains one of the paramount digital topics, as leading platforms continue to attract huge audiences and account for an increasingly large share of consumers’ time spent online. To get a sense of how these social networks will fare over the course of this year, it’s worth getting some perspective as to how they stack up against each other in the present.Facebook remains the golia...
A Chart Showing You How Much Water It Takes To Grow All The Food You Eat
[Consumer]
2015/04/09 11:04
How much more water does it take to produce an ounce of bread, than a ounce of juice? The answer is not quite what you might expect.[click to enlarge]This chart is the work of Kyle Kim over at the LA Times, and it breaks down just how much water goes into producing different kinds of common foods. As you can see, meat is (unsurprisingly) the top water siphoner, but even beyond that category the...
(Video) Philips Hue Go Offers Smart Lighting Without The Cord
[Product]
2015/04/09 11:03
The Hue Go can output at up to 300 lumens when plugged in, but cuts it to 40 percent brightness when used unplugged to maximums battery, which gives you a pleasing but dim kind of ambient lighting.Overall, it’s plenty bright for most cases where you’d be using a portable lighting solution anyway, especially given that this isn’t a work light designed for the workshop, for instance. It’s als...
