TREND REPORTS
U.S. Venture Investment Ticks Up In Q2 2017
[Investing]
2017/07/12 10:38
Venture investment in U.S. startups rose sequentially in the second quarter of 2017, boosted by large, late-stage financings and a few outsized early-stage rounds in tech and healthcare.Overall, Crunchbase projects that U.S. startups raised $22.7 billion across all stages, from seed through technology growth rounds. That’s up from $20.6 billion in Q1, which is typically a slightly slower quart...
(Video) Building a Battery-Free Cellphone
[Tech]
2017/07/12 10:38
A team from the University of Washington has built a battery-free cellphone that can harness power from radiofrequency (RF) waves sent to it from a nearby base station. The phone not only harnesses the power it needs to operate from those waves, but can also place a voice call by modifying and reflecting the same waves back to the base station, through a technique known as backscattering.The UW...
(Video) Gesture-Recognizing Watch Strap Lets Its Wearer Fly a Drone
[Tech]
2017/07/12 10:37
A sensor made of piezo-resistive fibers integrated in a wristband measures wrist movements and converts them into electrical signals. This can be used to steer drones or other electronic devices without a remote control.The watchstrap contains piezoresistive fibers produced on a 3D printer. The wrist movements are transmitted to steer the drone.A wave to the left: the drone moves to the left. A...
Wearable Patch Analyses Athletes’ Sweat - Kenzen ECHO H2
[Product]
2017/07/12 10:37
A new wearable patch can analyse sweat to evaluate glucose levels, hydration, electrolyte and other measurements of fitness.If you are an athlete, you probably already use a monitor to track your heart rate, or maybe use a wearable to count your steps or measure your hydration levels. But these types of measurements will not tell you how your body is reacting to stress, or provide an accurate m...
The Future of Car Charging - Darko’s Recharge Drone
[Design]
2017/07/12 10:37
Embodying Tesla’s unabashedly fearless attitude towards tech, Serbian designer Darko Markovic decided to combine the three things that the car company isn’t afraid of exploring. A. Drones, B. Autonomous Charging (remember that snake arm?), and C. Presenting futuristic technology in a way that impresses some, but scares others!What you see below is a drone. A drone that is capable of charging...
(PDF) Deloitte - The Future of Freight
[Business]
2017/07/11 10:37
How new technology and new thinking can transform how goods are moved.It’s easy to envision self-driving trucks safely and efficiently carrying shipments down US highways. But that’s only part of any product’s journey between manufacturer and customer. How will the new mobility ecosystem handle the whole trip, including the trickiest part of all: last-mile delivery?MONIQUE needs a new lens f...
IBM Uses AI to Serve Up Wimbledon Highlights
[Tech]
2017/07/11 10:37
Watson's at it again helping to create two-minute highlights of matches during tennis' biggest and oldest tournament.Will defending Wimbledon men's champion Andy Murray be able to repeat? IBM will be tracking all of his action.Too busy to spend hours watching Wimbledon champ Andy Murray try to win back-to-back titles against the likes of past winners Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokov...
AI, Robotics, And The Future Of Precision Agriculture
[Investing]
2017/07/11 10:36
From analyzing millions of satellite images to finding healthy strains of plant microbiome, these startups have raised over $500M to bring AI and robotics to agriculture.[click to enlarge]Agricultural tech startups have raised over $800M in the last 5 years. Deals to startups using robotics and machine learning to solve problems in agriculture started gaining momentum in 2014, in line with the...
Why It Is Closing Time for So Many London Pubs
[Consumer]
2017/07/11 10:36
Alehouses in the city's outer regions are especially vulnerable.THE public house, once a linchpin of British nightlife, is in decline. According to the British Beer and Pub Association, the total number of watering holes in Blighty has fallen by 25% since 1982, to 50,800. During the same period, Britain's population has risen by 16%. Why are pubs falling out of favour?Changing consumer preferen...
