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(Infographic) Millennial Must-Haves
[Consumer]
2016/11/10 10:50
When you go for a jog, you need a place to keep your phone and keys. When you get on a plane, you need a way to keep all your stuff organized. This infographic from Self Storage Finders outlines numerous storage solutions preferred by Millennials.Red-eye jetsetters, metropolitan commuters, and all-around multitasking millennials need the perfect place to stash their stuff on-the-go. This infogr...
How the Agency Grind Led This Art Director to Dream Up Gourmet Marijuana Edibles
[Business]
2016/11/10 10:49
Inside the culinary passion project Sous Weed.During the third season of Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss' Peggy Olson surprises herself and her colleagues when she declares, "I'm Peggy Olson and I want to smoke some marijuana." She's working on a Saturday and she's creatively blocked, so why not try something new? It's a delightful moment and one that made Peggy into, as Moss has noted, a stoner icon.O...
(Video) Young Aussie Inventor Builds a Better Band-Aid Dispenser
[Business]
2016/11/10 10:49
Bridgette Veneris, a 10-year-old Australian girl diagnosed with leukaemia, has invented Faster-Aid, a new dispenser for Band-Aid style adhesive bandages.After being diagnosed with leukaemia 18 months ago, a 10-year-old girl from Australia was inspired to invent a new device for dispensing Band-Aids. Dubbed the Faster-Aid, Bridgette Veneris' design works like a roll of sticky tape that's reseala...
Electric Smart Trucks Charging Toward Market - Charge
[Product]
2016/11/10 10:49
Charge hopes to change the way trucks are built and powered.With electric cars gradually overcoming range and pricing obstacles to become more competitive with liquid fuel contemporaries, electric vehicle technology is branching out, little by little. Tesla has plans to introduce trucks and buses next year, and Daimler announced Fuso E-Cell truck trials earlier this year. Now a lesser known pla...
(Infographic) There’s a New Ranking of The Healthiest Countries
[Investing]
2016/11/10 10:49
Iceland tops a new ranking of the world’s healthiest countries, in a vast new study. Published in The Lancet, the study assesses 33 health-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators in 188 countries across 25 years.One year into the SDGs, the results present a global picture of the progress made on the Millennium Development Goals, and the work still needed to achieve the Global Goa...
(PDF) BCG - Fintech in Capital Markets : A Land of Opportunity
[Investing]
2016/11/09 11:26
The financial technology (fintech) phenomenon first started to evolve in the capital markets (CM) industry more than 40 years ago. Today, accelerated both by the electronification of trading in the 1990s and the subsequent thrust of the entire financial services industry toward digitization, fintechs—which we define as firms that use innovative technology at scale to either enable or compete w...
(Video) Zwift Merges Indoor Fitness with Massive Multi-Player Online Gaming
[Investing]
2016/11/09 11:26
At its core, Zwift is indoor cycling software. But layered on top of its functionality is a community that in the two years the company has been operating has grown in both scale and shear strength. At an event at Rapha’s cycling in SF, I found myself surrounded by core users proudly flaunting their team names and meeting, often not for the first time. Even Barry Bonds showed up to the happeni...
(Video) MIT Rolls Out Driverless Scooter
[Tech]
2016/11/09 11:26
Self-driving scooter demonstrated at MIT complements autonomous golf carts and city cars.At MIT’s 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility scooter in a trial of software designed by researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the National University of Singapore, and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Rese...
(Video) Hyperloop Pods That ‘Hyperjump’ Out of the Tube
[Tech]
2016/11/09 11:26
IT’S A ROUGH day, no matter where you fall on the political spectrum. So if you need to distract yourself from the reality of the present, Hyperloop is here to help. And it’s going beyond the tube to do it.Hyperloop One, the company leading the race to bring Elon Musk’s vision of high-speed tubular travel to life, has signed a deal with Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority. Representatives...
