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(Video) 3D Printed Dental Aligners Without Visiting The Dentist - Smile Direct Club
[Product]
2016/11/17 11:05
Smile Direct Club enables users to create a unique series of professionally-approved 3D printed aligners by using an at-home impression kit, to straighten teeth without having to visit the dentist.We’ve seen how a mobile dentistry service can be requested via an app, and now Smile Direct Club is offering users corrective dental work without any dentist face-time.Users can sign up for an ‘impr...
(Video) Amazon’s "Package X-Ray" Gives You X-Ray Vision for Incoming Holiday Packages
[Product]
2016/11/17 11:05
Tucked in Amazon’s big Black Friday news this morning was the announcement of a handy Package X-Ray feature for its iPhone shopping app. The app can now leverage your iPhone’s camera to reveal the contents of an Amazon delivery without having to actually open up the package or hunt down tracking numbers.During the holiday season while you’re likely receiving multiple Amazon packages fairly r...
Japan Display's Smartphone Screen Folds Open
[Product]
2016/11/17 11:05
Japan Display links two LCD panels to expand a smartphone screen.Japan Display has developed a format that allows smartphones to fold open like a book, hinging two LCD panels to double a handset's working size.The Japanese developer and manufacturer of mobile displays is working with a Chinese smartphone maker to create a handset that will debut in the summer. The undisclosed Chinese partner is...
Supertainment for Superphones - VR COOLPRO1
[Design]
2016/11/17 11:04
VR COOLPRO1 is a mobile VR device designed for use with the hotly anticipated Le Superphones. Using its own app which supports video content on the LeEco platform, it combines high technology, fine craftsmanship, and discerning aesthetics, designed to bring virtual reality to a new level by providing a superior and satisfying experience.The design is based on a visual optical system with an in-...
(PDF) Pew - Social Media Update 2016
[Consumer]
2016/11/16 10:48
Facebook usage and engagement is on the rise, while adoption of other platforms holds steady.Over the past decade, Pew Research Center has documented the wide variety of ways in which Americans use social media to seek out information and interact with others. A majority of Americans now say they get news via social media, and half of the public has turned to these sites to learn about the 2016...
(PDF) Google's RAISR Sharpens Low-Resolution Images Using Machine Learning
[Tech]
2016/11/16 10:48
Google's RAISR: a machine learning algorithm that can take a low-resolution, block image and upscale it while enhancing and sharpening the image.From a jagged low-res jpeg to a sharper, larger image file, Google researchers have found a way to use machine learning to upscale images to higher resolutions at lightning speed, and it works so fast it could one day be built into your smartphone.Goog...
(M&A) Why Samsung's Harman Purchase Will be Seen as Apple Blunder Decades From Now
[Investing]
2016/11/16 10:48
Samsung's $8 billion purchase of Harman may be pricey, but how often can you become a Tier 1 auto supplier in one swoop. Apple could have made a similar play.Samsung's purchase of Harman is strategically sound, worth the $8 billion, and positions Samsung well in the connected car market. Meanwhile, Samsung diversifies from a saturated smartphone market.The deal makes so much sense you have to w...
Elon Musk Crushes Steve Jobs
[Business]
2016/11/16 10:47
Which Executive / Founder Do You Admire Most ? Elon Musk crushes Steve Jobs.In what some have described as "Wrestlemania for tech geeks," we now have a winner in our most admired tech CEO bracket. Elon Musk handily beat Steve Jobs, and here is how it wrapped up.For all you Elon fanboys/fangirls, here is the final bracket with Musk that you can turn into a poster for your cube or that you can us...
Project Skofield by WorldViz : VR Business Meetings are Closer Than You Might Think
[Tech]
2016/11/16 10:47
WorldViz's project Skofield is poised to offer a cross-platform tool for business communication in VR.WorldViz, a behind-the-scenes virtual reality company that's been working on large-scale VR solutions for the enterprise and industrial sectors, just announced its new platform for business communication. The project, codenamed "Skofield", allows remote users to make cross-platform presentation...
