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Nuvo's Ritmo Beats and PregSense Wearables Provide Continuous Pregnancy Monitoring
[Product]
2015/03/26 11:06
Ritmo Beats and PregSense are designed to make pregnancy more transparent for parents and doctors.You might remember Nuvo from its prenatal music system released back in 2010, but the company's latest efforts, known as the Ritmo Beats and PregSense, are decidedly more ambitious. The two products are aimed at consumer and medical users respectively, and are designed to provide in-depth pregnancy...
(Video) Slack is Now Worth $2 Billion ? It Doubled its Value in 6 Months
[Investing]
2015/03/26 11:05
Slack, the chat app that's been the talk of the startup world for the last year thanks to its incredible growth, is in talks to raise another round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, according to a Bloomberg report.The report didn't say how much Slack is seeking to raise.If the report is accurate, it would mean Slack's value has doubled in the last six months or so ? the company raised $120...
(Infographic) Startups : Location, Location, Location
[Business]
2015/03/26 11:03
Starting a business poses many questions, but first and foremost is the idea of location and how it will play a role in the startups imminent failure or success. When a startup company is set in motion one of the most fundamental questions to answer is, where in the world should this startup be launched? The following infographic by Washington State University’s OMBA program breaks down the be...
Artist Wants To Map Every Single Human Skin Tone On Earth
[Design]
2015/03/26 11:03
Photographer Angelica Dass has matched 2,000 human faces with their corresponding Pantone hue.Perhaps, in the near future, besides wearing mobile devices on our faces and sporting unisex high-waisted pants, we’ll cease to refer to people as black or white, or some variant in between. Instead, we’ll use their corresponding Pantone color to describe the tone of their skin.If this happens, we’l...
(Video) Incredible New Invention, Liquiglide Has Solved a Universally Annoying Problem
[Investing]
2015/03/25 16:22
One of the most frustrating feelings in the world is struggling to get the last bit of ketchup out of the bottle or the last squirt of toothpaste out of the tube.Now there's a coating called LiquiGlide that can keep the inside of a container permanently wet and allow its contents to easily slide out. Look how easy it is get to mayonnaise out of a bottle coated in LiquiGlide:And it's even more i...
Here's The Hierarchy of Luxury Brands Around the World
[Business]
2015/03/25 16:22
Brands are the best way to show off wealth, and there is a flood of new millionaires around the world who like showing off."The brands bought are actually more important than the level of money earned," HSBC managing director Erwan Rambourg writes in his recent book, "The Bling Dynasty: Why the Reign of Chinese Luxury Shoppers Has Only Just Begun."Rambourg created a brand pyramid to show how ma...
(Patent) Apple’s New Digital Camera Patent Uses Prisms to Create More Lifelike Photos
[Tech]
2015/03/25 16:21
As AppleInsider reported, Apple has been awarded a patent for a new type of sensor for smartphone cameras that could dramatically improve how images are captured by its iPhones. The patent uses the same technology that’s found on this seminal prog-rock album cover: prisms.According to the patent, the digital cameras found in most smartphones have a single light sensor. That has a color filter...
What Bubble ? Many Social Media Stocks are Losers
[Investing]
2015/03/25 16:21
If you believe the bears, this is a stock market that only SpongeBob SquarePants could love. There appear to be a lot of bubbles.The Nasdaq is back above 5,000 and not far from its all-time high.And social media stocks are leading the charge in tech. Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) is up more than 35% so far this year. Facebook (FB, Tech30) is at an all-time high. LinkedIn (LNKD, Tech30) trades for near...
Solid State Refrigerators
[Tech]
2015/03/25 16:21
Materials that cool and heat when stress is applied and released could led to new solid-state refrigerators that are more efficient and environmentally friendly than conventional fridges, researchers say.Air conditioners, refrigerators, and freezers burn through energy, accounting for roughly one-third of all electricity that U.S. homes use. A normal cooler uses a pump to squeeze refrigerant ga...
A Fully Transparent Solar Cell That Could Make Every Window a Power Source
[Tech]
2015/03/25 16:20
Researchers at Michigan State University have created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your smartphone’s screen) into a photovoltaic solar cell.Unlike other “transparent” solar cells that we’ve reported on in the past, this one really is transparent, as you can see in the photos throughout this story. According to Richard Lunt, who...
New Museum Installation Showcases Dornbracht Horizontal Shower
[Design]
2015/03/25 16:20
We've featured the Dornbracht Horizontal Shower on Trendir in the past - and now it's part of a very funky art installation at the New Museum in New York. Titled The Island (KEN), this installation is created by the New York based artist collective DIS in collaboration with Dornbracht, and co-designed by the creative director and designer Mike Meire. And this is truly the ultimate reclining sho...
Bentley Panache Concept
[Design]
2015/03/25 16:20
Bentley stands for class and opulence. And opulence is having an ocean inside your car. Well not literally of course, but imagine if your car interiors were lit by the calming and alluring caustic effects you see on the floor of a water body? The concept car redefines automotive luxury, and does it through sustainable means, making use of OLED technology, filtering light from the sunroof to loo...
