TREND REPORTS
World's 1st Breathing Sensor for Fitness - RESPA
[Product]
2018/06/13 09:03
Breathing is one of the most integral elements of working out, whether you’re executing your morning yoga routine, training for a marathon, or just getting back into shape. Trending smart wearables feature high-tech heart rate sensors, accelerometers, and altimeters. However, many of them lack the important element of breathing analysis. In response, the team at Zansors has developed an innova...
Why China’s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares
[Business]
2018/06/11 10:10
Thousands of wallets are buried in a glass box to raise awareness of mobile payments in Shanghai, China. Wandering the streets of Shanghai to admire the architecture, the head of one of the largest U.S. consumer banks recently found himself surrounded by a gaggle of teenagers.Entranced by their phones, they hardly made way for the banker. The teens were messaging, shopping and sending money bac...
(Patent) Ford Patent Application Turns The Steering Wheel Into a Laptop Mount
[Tech]
2018/06/11 10:09
Nowhere is safe from the demands of work. The easiest way to avoid working in your car? Just don't. Find a balance, "forget" your laptop at home, unionize, whatever it takes.Trying to open a laptop in a car is about as easy as opening a laptop in one of those reduced-size economy class airplane seats, but Ford thinks it can fix that.The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently publish...
(PDF) A Marketer’s Guide to Navigating Location Intelligence
[Business]
2018/06/11 10:07
Most retail marketers (71%) have some sort of location strategy to drive foot traffic and trigger location-based mobile advertising, according to a study by Blis, researcher WBR Insights and Future Stores. - Those who have this type of strategy report a greater lift in store visits and overall conversions through the location-based strategies like retargeting, proximity tools like geofencing an...
This is The World's First Augmented Reality Drone
[Design]
2018/06/11 10:07
The Space Creator Drone is quite unlike any drone you’ll ever see. It doesn’t fly around capturing pictures, but rather projects pictures onto surfaces, turning walls and floors into windows showcasing alternative realities on the other side.Mounted with a projector lens where you’d expect a camera, the Space Creator drone flies around casting images onto surfaces, turning them into points o...
The Death of all Websites is Coming
[Business]
2018/06/11 10:06
Alexa knows it, Google knows it, actually the Voice-AI interface is scaling faster than we expected. It might mean the end of all websites, likely by as early as 2023. Hard to imagine right?We are now safely snuggled in the app attention economy, that’s eating away at our lives. In the future, we’ll be more ethical — even as Apple is releasing software to help us with mobile addiction.In f...
How Long Does It Take to Hit 50 Million Users ?
[Consumer]
2018/06/11 10:05
Let’s assume that your product is actually pretty revolutionary, and that you’re going to receive widespread buzz and word-of-mouth traction. How quickly do you think it could be adopted by millions of users?Before the internet and consumption of digital goods, the use of a product could only spread as fast as you could manufacture the physical good. You would first need many millions of doll...
MIT - Surgical Technique Improves Sensation, Control of Prosthetic Limb
[Tech]
2018/06/11 10:04
In a paper published in Science Translational Medicine, the researchers describe the first human implementation of the agonist-antagonist myoneural interface (AMI), in a person with below-knee amputation.The paper represents the first time information on joint position, speed, and torque has been fed from a prosthetic limb into the nervous system, according to senior author and project director...
Altr Raises $15M to Use Blockchain for Cybersecurity
[Investing]
2018/06/11 10:03
After four years in stealth, Altr announced today that it has raised $15 million to build software that uses blockchain technology to provide cybersecurity.Amid rising adoption of the cloud and microservices, native mobile apps, and the internet of things, new threat vectors to data are continually emerging — and cybercrime is predicted to have an $8 trillion impact on the global economy by 20...
