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(Video) Wheely-X Lets Wheelchair Users Work Out on The Spot
[Product]
2023/11/24 09:04
Runners have treadmills for stationary indoor training, while cyclists have rollers and rowers have rowing machines, but … what is there for wheelchair users? Well, it turns out that they can utilize a li'l something called the Wheely-X.Manufactured by Korean company Kangsters, the Wheely-X consists of two sets of steel rollers and two aluminum ramps leading up to said rollers. All four compon...
Heatherwick Studio Heads to The Hills for Plant-Filled Tokyo District
[Design]
2023/11/24 09:03
Azabudai Hills is part of a massive redevelopment effort in central Tokyo that has taken 30 years.Heatherwick Studio has completed work on an ambitious new district in central Tokyo. Named Azabudai Hills, it showcases the firm's penchant for inserting lots of lush greenery into its projects and is defined by a series of low-rise buildings with complex dramatically curving latticed forms.Azabuda...
(PDF) The AI Revolution Report - Coatue Ventures
[Business]
2023/11/23 09:10
Atlassian CTO and current managing director of Coatue Ventures Sri Viswanath delivered a deep look at the state of artificial intelligence.He looks at GitHub stars, ChatGPT usage, AI application users per month, and many other metrics to track AI activity bubbling (and sometimes waning).Coatue has shared its full 115 page report with Newcomer readers first.In the presentation, Viswanath argues...
Stability AI Gets Into The Video-Generating Game
[Tech]
2023/11/23 09:09
AI startups that aren’t OpenAI are plugging away this week, it’d seem — sticking to their product roadmaps even as coverage of the chaos at OpenAI dominates the airwaves.See: Stability AI, which this afternoon announced Stable Video Diffusion, an AI model that generates videos by animating existing images. Based on Stability’s existing Stable Diffusion text-to-image model, Stable Video Diff...
(Video) Lego's Holiday Store Windows Feature an AR Snowball Fight
[Business]
2023/11/23 09:08
People will be able to toss snowballs across the Atlantic Ocean.It’s no secret that collaboration is essential to growth, but the how of it isn’t always so clear—and it's the understanding of how that is a true competitive advantage. Join Adweek X, a uniquely formatted event on December 4 in LA, to unlock fresh perspectives, true collaboration and growth.For the 2023 holiday season, Lego wor...
October Global Smartphone Sales Break Two-Year Losing Streak
[Business]
2023/11/23 09:07
In October 2023, the global monthly smartphone sell-through recorded its first YoY growth since June 2021, breaking the streak of 27 months of consecutive YoY declines.October also marked the biggest monthly smartphone sales since January 2022.Emerging markets led the recovery, with MEA showing the highest YoY growth, followed by China and IndiaGlobal monthly smartphone sell-through volumes gre...
Adidas Unveils Euro 2024 Official Football with Real-Time Kick Detection
[Product]
2023/11/23 09:06
Adidas announced yet another tech-driven product to improve the game of Football. The FUSSBALLLIEBE (German isn’t the most elegant language) is a connected ball that detects kicks in real-time, and has also been adopted as the Official Football for the upcoming UEFA EURO 2024. Beyond its mouthful of a name, which translates to “love of soccer,” this ball is a groundbreaking fusion of sport a...
Comparing Weekly Work Hours and Salaries in OECD Countries
[Consumer]
2023/11/23 09:05
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is generally regarded as a collection of highly developed, high income countries. However with 38 member states from across the globe, economic prosperity can still vary widely between these nations.To illustrate this, Truman Du from Genuine Impact charts the average weekly work hours and salaries across the OECD in 2022.For wage...
AI-Powered Photo-Sorting App Ollie Raised $3.6M
[Investing]
2023/11/23 09:04
AI-powered photo-sorting app GoodOnes raised $3.6 million in seed funding earlier this year and dropped into the Apple App Store in April. Six months and 400 million photo sorts later, it is changing its name to Ollie and having a bit of a relaunch. TechCrunch spoke to the newly named Ollie’s CEO and co-founder, Israel Shalom, to find out more about the name change and what they’ve learned si...
How Mugler and Balmain are enriching the consumer experience via emerging tech
[Business]
2023/11/23 09:03
The roundup and the verdict on this week’s hottest Web3 activations. It’s been a rocky road for the Web3 lexicon this year, with terms like “metaverse” and “NFT” losing their luster. In response, luxury labels are opting for language that’s a little less loaded — cue digital passports.Essentially an NFT, the past 11 months have seen brands including Loro Piana and Panerai incorporate bl...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Arts in the UK : Seeing The Big Picture
[Business]
2023/11/22 09:10
Connections within the ecosystem are critical to the arts sector’s ability to achieve and sustain impact.As we have seen, the arts sector has a direct economic and noneconomic impact on society, beyond the intrinsic value of the arts. How does the sector achieve this impact, and how can it be sustained? Our analysis shows that it depends not only on the individual efforts of those in the arts...
Amazon Announces Astro for Business, A Robotic Security Guard for Workplaces
[Product]
2023/11/22 09:09
Introducing Astro for Business: A Customizable Security Solution Bringing Peace of Mind to Owners of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.Help reduce blind spots and protect business inventory in spaces of up to 5,000 square feet with flexible camera viewpoints powered by Astro’s intelligent motion and periscope cameraUse the Astro app to control privacy settings and check in on your business 24/...
