Cameras, radar, and lidar make up the holy trinity of sensors enabling advanced driver aids and autonomous driving, but Vayyar Imaging wants to narrow that trio down to a duo. The Israeli company known for 3D-imaging chips claims to have developed a sensor kit combining the functions of radar and lidar, and even doing things neither technology has been used for yet. At the 2018 Paris Motor Show...

Two decades ago, a Swiss inventor laid the foundation for the big mobility innovation of 2018. Like so many inventions, the scooter was a child of necessity: Specifically, the need to get a bratwurst without looking like an idiot.One night in 1990, Wim Ouboter, a Dutch-Swiss banker and amateur craftsman, was “in the mood for a St. Gallen bratwurst at the Sternengrill in Zurich,” or so the sto...

Throughout the past decade, one of the key challenges for content owners and publishers has been how to get people to pay for digital content that they were used to getting for free. To this day, many people are unwilling to pay for access to a news website, while they have no problem buying a printed newspaper. The lack of a physical, haptic product seems to diminish the perceived value of dig...

Created by ex-SpaceX engineers. Looks & feels like a baseball cap. Safe as a traditional helmet.Everybody knows a bike helmet could save your life, but that doesn't stop people ditching them because they look dorky or are too bulky to stash in a bag.The Park & Diamond is a new helmet designed to solve both of those problems, resembling a baseball cap when it's on your head and collapsin...

The sprayable antenna is made of MXene, a 2D titanium carbide material, which is extremely conductive and in tests performs as well as traditional antennas.If a device connects wirelessly to other things, chances are high that it has an antenna in it. But as crucial as these components are, the rigid metals they're made of can limit what devices they can be built into. To help with that, resear...

Panasonic's wear space aids concentration by limiting senses of sight and hearingall images courtesy of panasonic – future life factory.Wear space by panasonic is a wearable prototype device created to aid concentration by limiting one’s senses of sight and hearing. designed similar to a set of horse blinkers, the project employs a partition that controls the wearer’s field of view, as well...

The dominant color in an agency’s logo may seem like a trivial matter compared with the shop’s mission, goals and ideal clientele, but make no mistake: It matters.Global creative platform 99designs analyzed thousands of logos created on its site, as well as the logos of industry leaders, to break down prioritized brand traits and how they’re expressed through color. It turns out that some co...

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has published its 2018 report on international tourism trends, finding that last year was extremely positive for the industry. Due to a combination of strong economic conditions, increasing demand in emerging markets and the recovery of destinations suffering from security challenges, 2017 experienced the highest growth in international tourist arrivals si...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Germany have developed a way to pack dense batteries into flexible devices such as wristbands of wearable devices. There is a new technology gripping the markets of the future – technology to wear. Wearables, as they are known, are portable systems that contain sensors to collect measurement data from our bodies. P...