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Ikea Lets Kids Design Its New Toys, And They're Delightful
[Product]
2016/10/25 11:06
Children have amazingly active imaginations, and tend to come up with things that even the most creative adults would never think of. Now, Ikea is smartly tapping into this wellspring of ideas for a line of stuffed toys.dubbed Sagoskatt—Swedish for "mythical treasure"—which hits shelves on November 20 and will be available until December 24.To come up with the toy concepts, Ikea invited kids...
The Biggest Money Mistakes We Make—Decade by Decade
[Investing]
2016/10/25 11:05
Our financial errors vary by age. Here’s a look at what we get wrong and how to do better.Our relationship to money changes as we get older. So do the mistakes that we make with it. Every new stage of life brings new financial strategies we need to follow. And at every stage we find new ways not to follow those strategies, costing ourselves money and jeopardizing our security.What’s more, eco...
DOSIS Designs Reconfigurable + Inflatable Architectural Structure in London
[Design]
2016/10/25 11:03
In london fields, a park east of the city center, a pneumatic architectural structure took shape in early october, hosting free community events for local families and children. designed and realized by DOSIS — a madrid-based laboratory of creative processes founded by isabel collado and ignacio peydro — ‘second dome’ is a reconfigurable space that can transform from a single, 65-square-met...
(Infographic) Shopping Cart Abandonment : E-Commerce Tips to Increase Sales
[Consumer]
2016/10/25 11:02
$4 trillion dollars of merchandise is abandoned in shopping carts every year. Using follow up texts, ad retargeting and a streamlined checkout process you can increase recovered purchases and help lure shoppers back to websites to complete their purchase. Minimizing steps, providing multiple payment options and using exit popups can help streamline the checkout process and reduce shopping cart...
Airbus Wants to Build a Self-Flying Taxi Called Vahana
[Design]
2016/10/24 11:03
Apparently, Vahana is a Sanskrit word that "denotes the being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu deity is said to use as a vehicle." Put more simply, Vahana is a vehicle fit for a god. Or, if you're A3 (that's A Cubed), a Silicon Valley-based subsidiary of Airbus, Vahana is the name of a fully electric autonomous vehicle. And not just any autonomous vehicle – this is a...
(Patent) Amazon Patents Personal Mini Drones to Locate Lost Cars or Kids
[Tech]
2016/10/24 10:39
Amazon has been awarded a patent for a tiny personal assistant drone, which can be carried around with a user and sent off via voice commands to perform autonomous functions.Imagine you're trying to find your car in a crowded parking lot. Rather than let frustration take hold, you simply say "locate car" and a tiny drone perched on your shoulder flies off and guides you to it. Amazon has been a...
(Infographic) The Robo-Advisor Arms Race
[Investing]
2016/10/24 10:39
It was going to happen sooner or later.When they launched roughly five years ago, tech-driven companies such as Betterment or Wealthfront had the audacious and laudable goal of taking on the incumbents of the gargantuan wealth management industry. Many traditional wealth managers were skeptical of portfolios being driven by artificial intelligence, and adopted a “wait and see” approach. If it...
(PDF) Rovables : Miniature On-Body Robots as Mobile Wearables
[Tech]
2016/10/24 10:39
A couple of Rovables make their way along a sleeve.If you don't like the thought of bugs crawling all over you, then you might not like one possible direction in which the field of wearable electronics is heading. Researchers from MIT and Stanford University recently showcased their new Rovables robots, which are tiny devices that roam up and down a person's clothing – and yes, that's as the c...
(Infographic) Unicorn Hunters : These Investors Have Backed The Most Billion-Dollar Companies
[Investing]
2016/10/24 10:39
SV Angel has the most early-stage investments in billion-dollar companies, followed by Sequoia.[click to enlarge]There are 176 private unicorn companies globally valued at a billion dollars or more as of 10/20/16, according to our unicorn tracker. We used CB Insights data to update our analysis on which investors have backed the most unicorns and which are in the best position to capitalize sho...
