TREND REPORTS
LiDAR Maker Innoviz Raises $65M from Delphi, Magna and More
[Investing]
2017/09/10 10:07
Innoviz, a company making LiDAR sensors to support the development and deployment of autonomous driving, has raised a new $65 million in Series B funding, from strategic partners and leading auto industry suppliers Delphi Automotive and Magna International, along with other investors. The vote of confidence from Magna and Delphi is especially noteworthy, however, because both stand ready to sup...
(Video) Futuristic Jaguar Land Rover Future-Type Concept Car for The Year of 2040
[Design]
2017/09/10 10:06
Jaguar’s future combines autonomy with a driver-based approach to give you the Jaguar Future-Type. Their vision, much like their contemporaries, is of a future where cars are shared (like MINI’s Vision Next 100)… except in Jaguar’s iteration of the future your key to the car is a personalized steering wheel. Jaguar says that the steering wheel (code-named Sayer after Malcolm Sayer, the desi...
(Video) Alipay Launches 'Smile to Pay' in China
[Business]
2017/09/10 10:05
KFC's K Pro fast food restaurant allows customers to purchase their menu items with a facial recognition kiosk.Too busy to take cash out of your wallet? Don’t worry, KFC’s healthy store called K Pro in China allows customers to purchase items by using facial recognition software called Smile to Pay. The technology was developed by Chinese technology company, Ant Financial.The payment feature...
Kanga Newborn Resuscitation Kit for Developing Countries
[Design]
2017/09/10 10:04
Kanga is a Newborn Resuscitation Kit, designed specially for developing countries who usually don’t have access the standard kit. There are more than a million babies die due to the lack of oxygen at birth, simple interventions can help these babies’ lives.Kanga by Darja Wendel is designed to guide caregiver during resuscitation, it helps to reduce time to ventilation yet allowing to keep mot...
(Infographic) Wearable Technology
[Tech]
2017/09/10 10:03
As technology becomes more and more integrated into our lives, our clothes, accessories and bodies are reflecting our new reality.What comes next and where will it lead ? Infographic : https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Wearable-Technology-edit.png[futurism]
(PDF) BCG & MIT Sloan - Reshaping Business with Artificial Intelligence
[Business]
2017/09/07 11:39
Artificial intelligence has become one of the biggest technological developments in business in recent years, but the field is still largely shrouded in uncertainty. While expectations run sky-high, what are businesses actually doing now? [click to enlarge]A new report by BCG and MIT’s Sloan Management Review aims to demystify AI in business and take stock of current industry adoption. The rep...
(Video) CalTech : Smartphone Using Its Camera Can Assess Heart Health
[Tech]
2017/09/07 11:39
Effectiveness of the app, which measures pressure waveforms of blood flow through the cardiovascular system, demonstrated in clinical trials. Want to know how healthy your heart is? Now there's an app for that.In a proof-of-concept clinical trial, engineers at Caltech, Huntington Medical Research Institute, and USC have demonstrated that the camera on your smartphone can noninvasively provide d...
Jaguar Land Rover Sayer : Futuristic Steering Wheel and Reliable Companion
[Design]
2017/09/07 11:38
Jaguar Land Rover will introduce futuristic steering wheel at Tech Fest on September 7. It’ll reveal intelligent and connected steering wheel that lives in your home and becomes your reliable companion. Called Sayer, it’s a concept steering wheel that features voice-activated artificial intelligence (AI), it is able to carry out different kinds of tasks including alerting your exclusive membe...
Stanford's Electricity-Free System Cuts Cooling Costs by Beaming Heat Into Space
[Tech]
2017/09/07 11:38
Stanford scientists cooled water without electricity by sending excess heat where it won’t be noticed – space. The specialized optical surfaces they developed are a major step toward applying this technology to air conditioning and refrigeration.Radiative sky cooling systems use reflective panels to emit heat into space, potentially cooling a building in the process. Heat naturally flows from...
