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(PDF) Harris Interactive - Connected Car Consumer Study
[Consumer]
2015/02/22 11:07
Connected Car High-Tech Features Popular, But More Marketing Muscle Needed to Spur Demand, Adoption. Lack of consumer education also allowing Connected Car privacy concerns to persistMove over George Jetson. You're not the only one able to transition from favorite at-home or in-office technology to the car, where a 'personal assistant' makes dinner plans, reads messages, converts verbal replies...
Telescopic Contact Lenses Zoom In and Out with the Wink of an Eye
[Tech]
2015/02/22 11:06
Prototype telescopic contact lenses may one day help sufferers of age-related macular degeneration.Researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed contact lenses that have tiny telescopic lenses built in to boost vision. Controlled by smart glasses that react in response to the winking of an eye, the device allows the wearer to zoom in on objec...
Scientists Say All the World’s Data Can Fit on a DNA Hard Drive the Size of a Teaspoon
[Tech]
2015/02/22 11:05
Even though it’s looking increasingly likely that humanity will find a way to wipe itself off the face of the Earth, there’s a chance that our creative output may live on. Servers, hard drives, flash drives, and disks will degrade (as will our libraries of paper books, of course), but a group of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have found a way to encode data onto DNA?...
(Video) Control Your Tesla Model S with the Apple Watch
[Design]
2015/02/22 11:04
ELEKS app concept accelerates the future of connected automobiles and wearables.You might have heard the Tesla Model S all-electric car comes with an “Insane Button,” which when activated shoots the vehicle from 0 to 60 in approximately 3.3 seconds. The acceleration feature is just one instance of the all-wheel drive’s progressive automobile engineering, and a stepping stone of what’s next...
(PDF) BCG - R&D Productivity 2014: A Breakthrough Year for Biopharma
[Business]
2015/02/16 11:10
For decades, R&D productivity was on the decline in the biopharmaceutical industry. It reached its nadir in 2008, with the industry as a whole failing to earn a return on its R&D investments. The fortunes of the industry have since changed dramatically, and 2014 stands out as a record year in terms of approvals for new drugs by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In addition, t...
(Video) Chocolate Shooter - Sniff Chocolate Don't Eat It
[Product]
2015/02/16 11:09
When those in the know taste chocolate, one of the things they pay attention to is “mouthfeel.” Its velvety texture comes from cocoa butter, which makes it melt in your mouth, according to the Nibble. It’s something chocolate makers such as Hershey’s try to recreate with less-expensive palm oil, for instance. But one Belgian chocolatier thinks you can get all the enjoyment from George Costa...
(Video) Nissan’s Glow-in-The-Dark Car Paint
[Tech]
2015/02/16 11:08
Nissan has received lots of good press for its Leaf electric car, but the reviews for one in particular are glowing. The car has been given a paint job that appears normal in the light, but glows green in the dark. The glow-in-the-dark paint is said to be made up of entirely organic materials.The glow-in-the-dark paint was created by Hamish ScottThe glow-in-the-dark paint is entirely organicSco...
Getting to a Quadrillion Dollar World with a closer look at GDP growth, education and demographics
[Investing]
2015/02/16 11:07
Nextbigfuture described a future where China helps build out the infrastructure that the rest of the developing world needs over the next few decades. The shortfall of infrastructure is lowering the potential GDP growth by 2-3% in many countries. An extra 2% GDP growth globally would accelerate the arrival of a world with a quadrillion dollar economy measured in todays dollars.China is leveragi...
(Video) Lego X That Turns Your Lego Masterpiece Into a Digital Building
[Product]
2015/02/16 11:07
It’s the frustration of many a designer: You grow up sketching and making with your hands, only to find yourself 20 years later spending the day in front of a glowing screen. The reality is, building in 3-D requires doing a lot of 2-D work first. Much of this is for practicality’s sake; in the early stages of design, it makes little sense to build a physical model when you can so easily revis...
(Video) Thermal Vision Microwave Shows When Your Food is Cooked Just Right
[Tech]
2015/02/16 11:06
As your food moves from cold to hot, it morphs from blue, to red, and to white hot when it's time to pull it out.For all the time they save us in food preparation, burnt tongues and frozen centers are an all too common occurrence when dealing with microwaves. But former NASA engineer-turned-inventor Mark Rober reckons nuking our food shouldn't involve so much guesswork. His take on the everyday...
(Video) LED-Embedded Smart Rope by Tangram Factory Communicates with Phones
[Product]
2015/02/16 11:05
based out of seoul and new jersey, multi-disciplinary studio tangram factory have unveiled ‘smart rope’ ahead of their official kickstarter campaign. the workout accessory is an LED-embedded jump rope that communicates with your smartphone ? the first active fitness device for the company’s ‘smart gym’ platform, designed around creating a user experience to incorporate active workout data....
Doctor Search Site Practo Lands $30M For Aggressive Growth In India
[Investing]
2015/02/16 11:03
Practo, an Indian startup that provides a search portal matching doctors with patients and other digital services for practices, has closed a $30 million Series B round to expand its services in India and other emerging markets.The funding was led by existing investor Sequoia Capital with participation from Matrix Partners. Bangalore-based Practo raised $4.6 million in 2012, and closed a seed r...
