The company has launched interactive 3D apps for kids in grades six through 12.Using Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality glasses, teaching platform Lifeliqe is offering schools educational apps to help teach children about everything from the circulatory system to electronegativity.The company hopes that letting kids experience lessons visually will help with memory retention, as well as in...

Researchers have engineered bendable batteries that can run on body-inspired liquids such as normal IV saline solution and cell-culture medium. The authors designed alternatives to lithium-ion batteries by focusing on the mechanical-stress demands of wearable electronics such as smartwatches and the safety requirements of implantable electronics.Implantable medical devices powered by batteries...

Airports in general are hectic and unpredictable and definitely not hearing-impaired friendly. This situation is a problem for hearing impaired airport passengers, therefore, several designers want to revolutionize the airport system with XENO. XENO is an airport communication and navigation system designed around the concept of personalizing airport for each passenger, including those with spe...

Coinbase has had a pretty crazy six months.It may be hard to remember, but at the beginning of 2017 the cryptocurrency world was a different place. Bitcoin was below $1000 per coin and the entire market cap for all cryptocurrencies was about 7x less than it is today. Since then, the market has surged. And as arguably the most established wallet and exchange service that exists today, Coinbase h...

Waymo has now scooped up a self-driving car patent for reducing surface rigidity of its vehicles, in an aim to make it possible for those cars to cause less damage to others in the unfortunate event of a collision between the self-driving car and other vehicles or property. According to the patent, the car would essentially be able to tell when it was about to hit something using one or more se...

Technologies and customer expectations have changed faster than marketing organizations. Here’s how to fix that.From the rise of online shopping channels to ad campaigns created for an audience of one, consumer marketing has changed more in the past ten years than it did in the previous 30. Despite that level of change and disruption, if you had put a few typical marketers from the 1980s into...

The new technology makes these meals shelf-stable for a year.Amazon, perhaps anticipating nuclear war or an impending apocalypse, is exploring technology that will allow it to produce complete meals that can be stored for long periods of time without refrigeration. In other words, Amazon is taking a page from the rations U.S. soldiers have known for decades: meals, ready to eat — commonly know...

Eagaries of fandom and politics force strategic adjustments.If you turned on a TV in Japan seven years ago, there was a good chance you would see a South Korean pop act gyrating away. The odds of that are lower today.Chalk it up to changing tastes, new entertainment options or politics, but there is a widespread perception that Japan is over its crush on K-pop. Some might even argue that South...

The Feedback card reveals how much you have left to spend with each swipe.Even the best budgeting can often fail in the face of unanticipated expenditures, making it easy to run over budget by the end of the month. Ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral design company, is hoping to help people keep better track of their finances with a new card that displays how much money you have as you spend it.The...