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Altered:Nozzle Tap Promises 98% Water Savings
[Product]
2016/09/22 11:21
The average household uses 32 gallons of water each day just from the taps. The Altered:Nozzle aims to reduce that to less than one gallon using a new water-saving design. According to the creators of Altered:Nozzle, attaching this device in place of your standard faucet nozzle will reduce water usage by a whopping 98% without sacrificing functionality. The project is on Kickstarter, and it’s...
This Upscale Whiskey Cocktail Has Quite a History, Yet It Comes in a Can
[Product]
2016/09/22 11:20
The drink is rye whiskey, raw honey, dried navel oranges, rock candy and angostura bitters. Wine brands have been appealing to laid-back drinkers with wine in a can, so it probably comes as no surprise that you can now crack open a rye whiskey cocktail in a can, too.Hochstadter's Slow & Low Rock and Rye, which is produced by Cooper Spirits Co., is a cocktail that launched in cans two weeks...
Get You a Speaker That Can Do Both
[Design]
2016/09/22 11:20
There seems to be a certain redundancy in the audio industry. People buy and own two products that do the same thing. An external speaker for music playback, and earphones or headphones… also for audio playback. Seems strange when you hear it that way, right? You wouldn’t buy a motorbike AND a car for when you’re travelling alone vs. when you’re with a group, right? Then why the duality wit...
(PDF) BCG - The Future of Television : The Impact of OTT on Video Production
[Business]
2016/09/21 11:51
A digital revolution is putting more than half a trillion dollars into play. Television and filmed entertainment, especially traditional broadcast TV, is being transformed by the big and fast-growing inroads of internet and over-the-top (OTT) video platforms. Some $570 billion in annual market value—in content creation, aggregation, and distribution—is at stake.OTT television—representing so...
(Video) A New Sport Called "Dronesurfing" Takes First Flight
[Business]
2016/09/21 11:51
A brand new sport has been created specifically due to new technology: Dronesurfing.A professional cinematographic company called Freefly used a drone, the Freefly Alta 8, on a day with minimal waves to help pull their boarder across the water. While the drone does have a 20-pound maximum cargo limit, it is able to pull a person across the water (after getting a running start).To do a little dr...
AllSet Raises $2.35M to Cut Your Restaurant Wait in Half
[Investing]
2016/09/21 11:51
AllSet, an app that promises to cut restaurant wait time in half by allowing customers to book tables and preorder meals, announced today that it raised a $2.35 million investment led by New York-based VC firm Metamorphic Ventures.With operations in San Francisco, Palo Alto (California), and Manhattan, AllSet plans to expand its service to Los Angeles and Chicago. The funding capital will also...
Beauty M&A Deals On Track For Another Annual High
[Investing]
2016/09/21 11:51
UK-based Wahanda (now Treatwell) and Estee Lauder lead in industry acquisitions.Beauty brands, CPG companies, and private equity firms are snapping up beauty and cosmetics startups at record rates. We’ve already seen 39 beauty acquisitions in the first eight months of 2016, nearly as many as in all of 2015, when there were 41 acquisitions in the category. If M&A activity continues at its c...
Tech Startup Creates Indoor Flying Robots - IFM Technologies
[Tech]
2016/09/21 11:50
IFM is using autonomous drones to automate data capture inside warehouses, streamlining the process of managing inventory.Springwise has seen various breakthroughs in technology used to automate the process of accurate cataloguing, for example, a robotic librarian in Singapore that scans the shelves and lists missing books. Now, IFM (Intelligent Flying Machines) applies a similar approach to in...
This Experimental Home Tilts Like A See-Saw As You Walk Around Inside
[Design]
2016/09/21 11:50
It sounds like something out of a funhouse, but this modernist retreat is actually a study in how architecture affects relationships.Recently, the performance artists Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley designed and built a long, lean glass house in a bucolic field at the OMI International Arts Center in Upstate New York. The floorplan is a mirror image, with one balcony, bedroom, and sitting area o...
