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The Swipe Door Handle for Sanitation
[Design]
2016/11/27 11:01
So swiping isn’t just good for your love life, it’s a great hygienic habit too! That sentence didn’t make sense, right? The Swipe door handle disinfectant takes the fun element from Tinder and makes it a healthy practice. The product fits on cylindrical door handles and simply slides from left to right and back. Each swipe coats the door handle with a layer of disinfectant, eliminating all g...
(PDF) Deloitte - The New Digital Divide : The Future of Digital Influence in Retail
[Business]
2016/11/24 11:10
Today, retailers almost universally recognize that digital has reshaped customer behavior and shopping forever. So why are so many traditional brick-and-mortar retailers still so far behind at creating the digital experiences that customers really want?This, the 2016 version of Deloitte’s New digital divide report, deepens our exploration of the growing gap between the digital experiences that...
(M&A) New York Times, Verizon, News Corp In A Rush To Grab Media Startups
[Investing]
2016/11/24 11:09
There have been nearly 30 M&A deals by large media corporates in 2016 year-to-date.[click to enlarge]This year has seen a series of moves that further consolidate the media landscape. Verizon is close to acquiring Yahoo, the creation of Group Nine Media came out of the merger of 4 distinct digital media companies, and NBC acquired DreamWorks Animation for approximately $3.8B.Media giants ha...
(Video) Beyond Touch : Tomorrow’s Devices Will Use MEMS Ultrasound to Hear Your Gestures
[Tech]
2016/11/24 11:08
Touch screens are on the way out; piezoelectric gesture control is on the way in.Today, we control our electronic world by touch—we tap, we swipe, we pinch and zoom. The touch interface went from being a novelty back in 2007, when Apple first brought it to the iPhone, to a ubiquitous feature in less than a decade. It is so commonplace that toddlers declare nontouch displays broken when the scr...
(Video) Gatorade and Spotify Have Teamed Up To Soundtrack Your Workouts
[Business]
2016/11/24 11:07
Gatorade Amplify aims to serve up personalized playlists to pump you up.Gatorade Amplify is a brand integration with Spotify that creates a personalized soundtrack based on the type of workout you want using data analysis of your music preferences.WHY WE CARE: This is a unique collaboration in that it's pretty on-brand for Gatorade—working out makes you sweat, non?—and takes the same type of...
On A Dark Street, You Can Summon These Drones To Light Your Way Home - Fleetlights
[Design]
2016/11/24 11:06
Fleetlights are streetlights that travel with you.If you get off the train from work late at night and have to walk or bike down dark streets, a U.K. insurance company wants you to be able to call up a small fleet of drones to accompany you—acting as lights that fly with you to illuminate your path home.Fleetlights, a prototype service, is designed to be summoned with a mobile app, and uses so...
(Video) This Augmented Reality Sensor Can Measure Your House - Canvas
[Product]
2016/11/24 11:05
Canvas is a new app and advanced sensor that uses augmented reality to create 3D images of your space directly from your mobile device.Until now, there has never been an easy way to accurately measure physical spaces without the assistance of a professional. Enter Canvas, a first-of-its-kind mobile application that works with an augmented reality sensor designed specifically for home improvemen...
VRchitecture : How IrisVR Is Bringing One-Click Virtual Reality to Revit and Rhino
[Tech]
2016/11/24 11:04
Virtual reality is often imagined as a form of technologically induced immersive experience with the ability to revolutionize the world of video games, news reporting and the overall film industry. However, a few companies specializing in VR software are making strides in engineering a product that fits within the work-flow of the architecture and construction industries, where the use of virtu...
(Video) Stories Wrapped Around Wine Bottles Let You Read And Sip
[Product]
2016/11/24 11:03
An Italian winery paired up with a product design agency to create wine that comes with short stories.Nothing says relaxation more than reading with a glass of vino in hand. The Matteo Correggia winery is looking to provide both by partnering with design agency Reverse Innovation to create Librottiglia—wine bottles with short stories wrapped around them.Each story is chosen specifically to pai...
