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(Video) eBay’s London Pop-Up Explores What Influences Shopping Habits
[Business]
2017/10/17 10:45
eBay Demonstrates the Art of Colorful Shopping. Combining scientific insight with artistic inspiration, eBay opened a gallery-inspired shopping experience to give consumers personalized recommendations.eBay UK has unveiled, with scientific fact, that inspired shopping can deliver highs comparable to a racing driver completing a Grand Prix circuit.The study, in partnership with mind-tech company...
Book Publishers Go Back to Basics
[Business]
2017/10/17 10:45
As consumer e-book sales fall, publishers look to find new footing with old ground—and faster pipelines.Executives from the top-four U.S. consumer publishers say the book business is done relying on newfangled formats to boost growth. Book publishers are giving an advance review of the industry’s future, and it looks a lot like the past.After a decade of technological upheaval and lackluster...
(Video) Inkitt Raises $3.9M to Discover The Next Best-Selling Author
[Investing]
2017/10/17 10:44
Inkitt, which bills itself as “the world’s first reader-powered book publisher,” has raised $3.9 million in pre-series A funding, in a round led by Redalpine, with Frontline Ventures, Speedinvest and a number of private investors also participating. The Berlin-based startup is part writing and reading community, and part publishing house, with one aspect feeding the other.Let me explain.The...
(Video) Interactive Pedestrian Crossing Provides Alerts for Drivers - Starling Crossing
[Design]
2017/10/17 10:44
New urban technology reacts in real-time to make pedestrians, cyclists and drivers safer and more aware of each other.An aspect of life that is taught to children from an early age, crossing the road safely is something everyone has to do on a daily basis. Although lesson learnt as a child will always be useful, new technology created by insurer Direct Line and built by urban design specialists...
(Video) New Anatomy VR App Lets You Look Inside Your Own Body - Curiscope
[Product]
2017/10/17 10:44
Curiscope, a startup, aims to blend VR and AR. Their Virtuali-Tee allows users to take a peek inside their own chest cavities.TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELFMost people feel confident that they know a fair amount about their own body, in terms of general health and what they look like from the outside. However, most of us haven’t taken a look inside—literally speaking. Ed Barton and his UK-based star...
(Infographic) What Millennials Value Most in Their Lives, Careers and Personal Tech
[Consumer]
2017/10/17 10:10
Marketers can learn a lot from a simple game of ‘would you rather’.A simple choice between A and B can say a lot about a person—or, in the case of 9GAG’s just-released Millennial Black Paper, an entire generation. In April, the cross-platform entertainment network, which counts 150 million users around the globe, teamed up with research firm GfK to create a simple “would you rather” quest...
(Patent) Apple Seeks New Patent for Folding Displays as Rumors of a Foldable OLED iPhone Heat Up
[Tech]
2017/10/16 11:30
On the heels of a rumor that Apple is working with OLED maker LG on a future iPhone that could fold in half, a new patent application from the company describes the very same thing.AppleInsider first discovered the new application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, very simply entitled "Electronic Devices with Displays." But within the application, Apple reveals its...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How The Semiconductor Industry is Taking Charge of its Transformation
[Business]
2017/10/16 11:30
Three snapshots demonstrate areas of change and opportunity. Semiconductors are the unsung heroes of technology, providing high-speed processing power for computers, flat-screen displays, smartphones, and other electronic devices.But while semiconductor revenues are hitting record levels, recent geographic and product shifts are upending long-standing business plans. Moreover, R&D budgets a...
(Infographic) Blockchain Project Ecosystem
[Investing]
2017/10/16 11:30
Aside from the usual introduction to tokens and cryptocurrencies, we focused our talk on describing what we’ve been telling people privately, and on here, for a while: we’re not big fans of ICOs.[click to enlarge]Fortunately we’re seeing data that suggests the trend of anyone being able to raise whatever they wanted for any kind of projects is over, but the frothiness is still rampant.The ma...
