In the wake of the smartphone and tablet boom, many experts predicted wearable devices to be the next big thing in consumer technology. And to a certain degree they were right: global smartwatch shipments more than tripled since 2015 and fitness tracking armbands are as popular as they are affordable. However, speaking of a wearables boom in general seems like a stretch when considering the num...

Wireless startup WiTricity wants cars to power up without human help and feed utilities energy during peak demand.Electric robo-taxis are a real possibility. Trends in transportation, energy, and demographics indicate that future vehicles will operate autonomously, run on electricity rather than fossil fuels, and be shared instead of privately owned.But before everyone can carpool in self-drivi...

Home cooking would be making a comeback if it ever really went away.. Per-person restaurant visits dropped to 28-year low in 2018. Chick-fil-A is trying enchilada kits to capitalize on trend.Restaurants are getting dinged by the convenience of Netflix, the advent of pre-made meals, the spread of online grocery delivery, plus crushing student debt and a focus on healthy eating. Eighty-two percen...

‘Radiolaria #1’ is a real size 3D printed model of a chair by lilian van daal is made out of a single material that mimics unicellular natural structures. these structures incorporate all functionalities — flexibility, adaptability, firmness, and stability — necessary for the comfort of a chair. With radiolaria #1, van daal proceeds with her quest to improve, adjust and innovate the produc...

What happens when internet users can’t go on Facebook? Some turn to other social media platforms to joke about it. A lot of them, it turns out, spend that time reading the news.When Facebook experienced a 45-minute outage on Aug. 3 in many parts of the world, traffic to news websites sharply spiked, according to a data from Chartbeat, a firm used by many major news publishers to track traffic...

With the living population within cities ever on the rise, an ever-increasing number of individuals are living in a studio or one-bedroom apartments. One of the most significant issues that these people face is the difficulty they have when trying to refresh the interior air! Introducing a conventional air purifier into the living space is a huge compromise on the valuable floor space, and for...

Capgemini Research Institute report gives 360 view on Immersive Technologies.Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) are not new, but recent advances in computational power, storage, graphics processing, and high-resolution displays have helped overcome some of the constraints that have stood in the way of the widespread use of these immersive technologies. According to IDC, global spendi...

WayRay, a Swiss company that aims to enable holographic augmented reality (AR) displays in cars, has raised $80 million in a series C round of funding led by Volkswagen-owned German car company Porsche.With participation from Hyundai, Alibaba, China Merchants Capital, Jvckenwood, and Consortium of Sovereign Wealth Funds (JBIC and partners).Founded out of Zürich in 2012, WayRay develops AR glas...

Making your own Picasso isn’t the only thing neural style transfer can do. Comics take the form of a series of still images that together tell a story. The images are often highly stylized and the graphic artists admired for their skill.[From left to right: the original graphic image, the target image, and the resulting stylized image]But this kind of artistry is hard to learn and difficult to...