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(Video) KFC Made a Weird Animatronic Harland Sanders Robot to Take Your Drive-Thru Order
[Business]
2017/07/10 10:24
Wieden + Kennedy is back with another bot.Six weeks after unveiling an animatronic sea creature for Old Spice’s S.Q.U.I.D. campaign, W+K wants you to say hello to—and maybe eventually order some fried chicken from—H.A.R.L.A.N.D., an animatronic Colonel Sanders head that speaks in the voice of the Colonel and is designed to physically pop up and take your order at a KFC drive-thru.The announc...
This Startup is Building AI to Bet on Soccer Games
[Tech]
2017/07/10 10:24
Listen to Andreas Koukorinis, founder of UK sports betting company Stratagem, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that soccer games are some of the most predictable events on Earth. “They’re short duration, repeatable, with fixed rules,” Koukorinis tells The Verge. “So if you observe 100,000 games, there are patterns there you can take out.”The mission of Koukorinis’ company is simple: fi...
DFJ leads $8.5 million investment in Xealth’s digital prescription service
[Investing]
2017/07/10 10:24
Xealth, a health care startup that allows doctors to prescribe digital services like apps and devices, today announced a seed round of $8.5 million, led by DFJ.The company aggregates and filters a range of information in a care provider’s existing electronic medical record (EMR) workflow to determine what to prescribe patients. “We algorithmically surface the relevant digital service against...
(Infographic) The Remarkable Rise of Influencer Marketing
[Business]
2017/07/10 10:24
Influencer Marketing Hub recently conducted an online survey to help them understand how companies see the state of influencer marketing in 2017. The results are definitely optimistic, indicating that influencer marketing is truly mainstream, on an upwards trajectory as a preferred method of marketing. Here are the key results from their Influencer Marketing Hub 2017 Study, along with a few oth...
(PDF) BCG - Five Profiles That Explain China’s Consumer Economy
[Consumer]
2017/07/09 10:10
China’s overall economic growth is slowing, but the Chinese consumer economy is still massive in absolute terms and poised for increasing growth. The country will see nearly $2 trillion in new consumption by 2021—about 27% of the total consumption growth that will occur in major economies during that time.China thus represents one of the biggest opportunities for consumer companies in the wor...
(Patent) RED Unveils a $1,200 Phone That’s a ‘Holographic Media Machine’
[Tech]
2017/07/09 10:09
The cinema camera company RED just made a huge announcement: its first smartphone. The new RED Hydrogen One is an Android OS smartphone that’s being referred to as a “holographic media machine” for viewing and capturing “multi-dimensional” imagery.The phone features a 5.7-inch “holographic” display that makes bulky glasses obsolete for viewing multi-dimensional content.“This incredible...
(Infographic) AR/VR Dealmakers invested over $800M in Q2 2017
[Investing]
2017/07/09 10:08
AR/VR Dealmakers invested over $800 million dollars in Q2 2017, after a quieter first quarter. This rounded out over $2 billion invested across 27 AR/VR sectors in the last 12 months. [click to enlarge]While investment hasn’t hit the record peak of Q1 2016 (when $1.2 billion was invested in the quarter and $2.4 billion in the previous 12 months), the second quarter of this year was an investme...
First Stop : Amazon
[Consumer]
2017/07/09 10:07
Over the years, Google has established itself as the first stop for almost everyone trying to find something online. When it comes to product searches however, Amazon has emerged as a powerful rival and is currently beating Google (and other search engines for that matter) in the race to becoming the first stop for online shoppers.According to a UPS survey among more than 5,000 U.S. online shop...
Continental Details Speaker-Free In-Car Audio Systems
[Tech]
2017/07/09 10:06
A visual representation of how Continental wants to make speakerless interiors. If luxury car manufacturers are to be believed, more speaker hardware is the best way to deliver a quality in-car audio experience. But a concept from Continental suggests ditching speakers altogether, and instead creates sound by vibrating some parts of the car's interior trim.Continental likens the Ac2ated Sound c...
