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'From Atoms to Bits': A Brilliant Visual History of American Ideas
[Tech]
2015/02/11 11:20
One night in the the spring of 1983, the scientist Kary Mullis was driving with his girlfriend along Highway 128 from Berkeley to Mendocino, California. As Mullis took in the perfume of California buckeyes swinging their blossoms along the road, his mind wandered back to his job as a chemist. He was thinking about human DNA. Specifically, he was thinking about how to replicate human DNA. And it...
Verdant - The Eco Refrigerator Concept
[Design]
2015/02/11 11:20
When buying a fridge, most folks look for one with increased storage space and at the same time it should be efficient enough to reduce energy costs. Verdant ? The Eco Refrigerator is concept that dwells on this and more. It proposes a new experience and reduced expenses related to food consumption and food wastages. It helps create a healthier eco system by integrating a live greenhouse sectio...
ScreenPop, Backed By $3.2M, Lets You Message Friends From Your Phone’s Lockscreen
[Investing]
2015/02/11 11:20
Locket, the makers of a mobile application that brings personalized news and other stories to your Android phone’s lockscreen is out today with a new lockscreen-based messaging application called ScreenPop. The new app, which grew to 15,000 users during two months of beta testing, is designed to allow anyone to send photos, doodles, emoji and more after just a quick swipe on their phone’s scr...
(Infographic) Sensors Shifting Sports
[Tech]
2015/02/11 11:19
Sensor technologies are helping build a new league of athlete. As part of the Internet of Things, these tiny communicating devices are making sports safer, more accurate and more enjoyable for players and fans alike. Jabil looks at this in more detail in the following infographic.Infographic : http://infographicjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sports+Sensors+Infographic+blog+small+v21.jpg...
Apple Took Home 93% of Mobile Profits Last Quarter
[Investing]
2015/02/10 11:39
Samsung had 9%. Microsoft lost money. The rest were lucky to break even. How did Apple, with 20% of the global smartphone market last quarter, manage to rake off 93% of the profit?[click to enlarge]The math, as Canaccord’s T. Michael Walkley figured it in a note to clients Monday, is pretty simple:Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones at an average selling price of $698Samsung shipped the same numbe...
(PDF) China’s iConsumer 2015 : A Growing Appetite for Change
[Consumer]
2015/02/10 11:39
Chinese e-commerce is developing even faster than previously believed, with Chinese iConsumers embracing online commerce and major retailers rushing to offer ever more sophisticated online services.McKinsey’s iConsumer China 2015 survey tapped into the behaviors and desires of China’s 630 million Internet users, across different city tiers and throughout rural areas (Exhibit 1). The research...
Why Chinese Moms Want American Babies
[Consumer]
2015/02/10 11:39
For many pregnant women, a pre-birth checklist might look like this: assemble the crib, buy extra bibs, pack essentials for the hospital. But for a growing number of expectant Chinese mothers, the list also includes buying a plane ticket to the U.S.Felicia He, 27, shelled out tens of thousands of dollars and planned meticulously before hopping on a plane to give birth in California."I started g...
Advanced Additive Manufacturing Could Enable Planes That are 50% More Fuel Efficient
[Tech]
2015/02/10 11:39
Pratt and Whitney is exploring making airplane engines with fewer parts using additive manufacturing (aka advanced 3D printing).Those parts would need less assembly and be cheaper to make. Frank Preli, chief engineer for materials and process engineering at the company, anticipates the possibility of radical new aircraft designs “like many engines embedded in a wing for ultra-aerodynamic effic...
(Video) "Spot" Is a Smaller (More Kickable) Version of Boston Dynamic's Big Dog
[Tech]
2015/02/10 11:38
We haven't seen much of Boston Dynamic's four-legged self-balancing Big Dog robot since it was last spotted hurling cinder blocks in a lab. And that's maybe because the company's robotic geniuses have been hard at work building a smaller more agile version called Spot that weighs just 160 pounds so it can safely operate both indoors and out.Powered by an electric motor that keeps a series of hy...
The 25 Most Elite Boarding Schools in America
[Consumer]
2015/02/10 11:38
From regal campuses to touted alumni, many boarding schools exude prestige.We recently published a list of the most elite boarding schools in the US.To come up with this list, we examined each school’s endowment, acceptance rate, and average SAT score. We used data from BoardingSchoolReview.com. Data that was unavailable on BoardingSchoolReview.com was taken from the schools’ websites or from...
Instagram Tattoos Encourage Wearable Photo Sharing
[Business]
2015/02/10 11:38
Netherlands-based photo printing service Picattoos offers to print temporary tattoos of users’ favourite Instagram snaps.With Instagram surpassing 300 million monthly users by the end of 2014 it is no wonder that we are seeing lots of third parties attempting to monetize that user base. There are lots of opportunities for digital photographers to turn their snaps into physical mementos, some s...
IKEarchitects Forms Indoor Exhibition Space with 20,000 Fabric Strips
[Design]
2015/02/10 11:37
Under the skylight at lisbon’s colombo shopping mall, LIKEarchitects have constructed a temporary exhibition space to hold artist jen lewin‘s interactive and luminous installation, ‘the pool’. the porto-based architecture studio has suspended 20,000 strips of white and black fabric from a circular frame, attached to the domed window towerinf above the commercial center. spanning 14 feet in...
