Imagine if telepathy were real. If, for example, you could transmit your thoughts to a computer or to another person just by thinking them. In just eight years it will be, says Openwater founder Mary Lou Jepsen, thanks to technology her company is working on.Jepsen is a former engineering executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google[x] (now called X) and Intel. She's also been a professor at MIT and i...

Amabrush is the a fully automatic toothbrush which brushes your teeth in 10 seconds. the flexible mouthpiece which has been in development for over three years vibrates every tooth clean with the simple click of a button. the toothbrush has built-in micro-channels that transport the toothpaste to your teeth. the mouthpiece is made of antibacterial silicone that kills 99.99% of all bacteria and...

Make no mistake about it: The fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and retail landscape is facing systemic change unlike anything in recent history. While the first quarter of the year kicked off with slowed growth, the recipe for selling hasn’t really changed: retailers need to find more customers and get them to load up bigger baskets while raising prices. Yet slowing U.S. population growth, fr...

Wieden + Kennedy is back with another bot.Six weeks after unveiling an animatronic sea creature for Old Spice’s S.Q.U.I.D. campaign, W+K wants you to say hello to—and maybe eventually order some fried chicken from—H.A.R.L.A.N.D., an animatronic Colonel Sanders head that speaks in the voice of the Colonel and is designed to physically pop up and take your order at a KFC drive-thru.The announc...

Listen to Andreas Koukorinis, founder of UK sports betting company Stratagem, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that soccer games are some of the most predictable events on Earth. “They’re short duration, repeatable, with fixed rules,” Koukorinis tells The Verge. “So if you observe 100,000 games, there are patterns there you can take out.”The mission of Koukorinis’ company is simple: fi...

Xealth, a health care startup that allows doctors to prescribe digital services like apps and devices, today announced a seed round of $8.5 million, led by DFJ.The company aggregates and filters a range of information in a care provider’s existing electronic medical record (EMR) workflow to determine what to prescribe patients. “We algorithmically surface the relevant digital service against...

Influencer Marketing Hub recently conducted an online survey to help them understand how companies see the state of influencer marketing in 2017. The results are definitely optimistic, indicating that influencer marketing is truly mainstream, on an upwards trajectory as a preferred method of marketing. Here are the key results from their Influencer Marketing Hub 2017 Study, along with a few oth...

China’s overall economic growth is slowing, but the Chinese consumer economy is still massive in absolute terms and poised for increasing growth. The country will see nearly $2 trillion in new consumption by 2021—about 27% of the total consumption growth that will occur in major economies during that time.China thus represents one of the biggest opportunities for consumer companies in the wor...

The cinema camera company RED just made a huge announcement: its first smartphone. The new RED Hydrogen One is an Android OS smartphone that’s being referred to as a “holographic media machine” for viewing and capturing “multi-dimensional” imagery.The phone features a 5.7-inch “holographic” display that makes bulky glasses obsolete for viewing multi-dimensional content.“This incredible...