Survey of American Stereotypes About Foreign Food.Many cultures are broadly stereotyped when it comes to the food they eat… or the food we think they eat… or the food we eat that’s supposed to represent the food they eat. In any case, there’s a lot of confusion! To sort this all out and find out who knows what, we asked 1,000 Americans to tell us what food they associate with 25 different c...

The only constant is change. It’s an old saying with new meaning for companies that are remaking their operations to address digital forces and other trends shaping work and the workplace, including the need for purpose, speed, inclusiveness, and transformative behavior change. Instead of viewing change management as a one-time proposition—a project to be accomplished in a month or a year—th...

Neurable is set to usher in the age of hands-free, brain-controlled VR gaming.VR technology has been accelerating rapidly in recent years, but there are still questions surrounding the most effective ways for us to interact with virtual spaces. We have recently seen a variety of weird controllers, boots, chairs and hover boards, while the next step in hand and body tracking technology seems to...

The agtech industry is booming. Capital invested in agtech startups in the US is set to total more than $1 billion this year, up from $832 million in 2016 and by far the biggest number since the beginning of the decade. There are a number of reasons for rising venture capital interest in agtech. For one thing, farmers need to produce enough food to feed the growing population—and traditional f...

Premium mattress company Airweave, started by Motokuni Takaoka in Japan in 2004, has introduced a $590 mattress pad for airline seats that meets the TSA standard for carry-on luggage. Designed in conjunction with the Ritz Paris and dubbed the Traveler, it’s 19.7 inches wide, 66.9 inches long, and a bit more than an inch thick. Because the core is 90 percent air, it weighs a mere 5.5 pounds, an...

Social media is a great way to connect with family, friends, and strangers around the globe, but spending too much time on any platform can create dissatisfaction.Moment app asks a user if she is happy with her Instagram usage.Data collected by Moment, an iPhone app that tracks app usage, shows that people who spend less time on social media apps are on average more satisfied with their experie...

Wire Stone becomes consultancy's 15th such addition in 5 years. Accenture’s aggressive pivot into the agency world continues unabated.Accenture Interactive, the consulting giant’s marketing subsidiary, announced today it has acquired California-based design and marketing agency Wire Stone.Neither party disclosed the terms of the sale. According to a release, it is Accenture’s 15th such acqui...

Here Be Dragons, an immersive production studio focused on virtual reality content, has closed a $10 million Series A round led by Discovery Communications with participation also coming from David Droga and David Jones. The raise sets the virtual reality studio’s valuation at $55 million pre-money, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.As part of the round, Discovery exec Rebecca Howard will be...

Specializing in cutting-edge technology and conceptual design, london-based designer eun kyung shin’s latest project, hyperface, is an artificial intelligence gadget that displays human emotion on an electronic mask. The project is an experimental means to augment facial exression through the manipulation of our social masks enabled by AI. hyperface aims to communicate more directly, powerfull...