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Innovative Molten Silicon-Based Energy Storage System
[Tech]
2016/10/19 10:48
As one of the Earth's crust's most abundant elements, silicon could form the basis of a cheaper storage system for renewable energy.A team of researchers from Madrid is developing a thermal energy storage system that uses molten silicon to store up to 10 times more energy than existing thermal storage options. The hope is to develop the technology into a new generation of low-cost solar thermal...
Long-Term Mobile Game Success : Beyond Awareness and Adoption
[Consumer]
2016/10/19 10:48
It’s always exciting when a new mobile game makes a big impact with gamers and earns a spot among the staples of the mobile category that unrelentingly dominate the weekly download charts. Unfortunately, this success is often fleeting. That’s because “big bang” titles will typically concede coveted spots back to more established pillars of the mobile category after little more than a few we...
(Video) Kengoro The Robot Can Do More Push-Ups Because It Sweats
[Tech]
2016/10/19 10:48
When we use our muscles, they produce heat as a byproduct. When we use them a lot, we need to actively cool them, which is why we sweat. By sweating, we pump water out of our bodies, and as that water evaporates, it cools us down. Robots, especially dynamic robots like humanoids that place near-constant high torque demands on their motors, generate enough heat that it regularly becomes a major...
(PDF) Morgan Stanley & BCG - Motor Insurance 2.0
[Business]
2016/10/18 11:20
Auto insurers are basking in a false sense of security, seemingly oblivious to the impending decline in market size and the threat of new entrants. The sector is ripe for disruption: the value of insurers’ proprietary data and traditional expertise is diminishing, and other players are emerging with the data, analytics, and customer access needed to attack the value chain. In light of the comb...
Celebrities’ Endorsement Earnings On Social Media
[Business]
2016/10/18 11:20
HAVING just received a fancy new watch from TAG Heuer, Cristiano Ronaldo, a footballer, posts a photo of himself, wrist aloft, to his Instagram account. He dutifully thanks them for their “kind gift” and signs off the post with the company’s advertising slogan #dontcrackunderpressure.This is the latest frontier of a rapidly growing industry. Since January, more than 200,000 posts per month o...
(Video) Modal VR Sets Out to Simplify Large-Scale Virtual Reality
[Product]
2016/10/18 11:20
The view from inside (top) and outside (bottom) a virtual world made possible with Modal VR.With the PSVR launching this week, and plenty of Oculus Rifts, HTC Vives and Gear VRs already in the wild, people's VR options are growing, but not everybody has the space or cash for a decent setup. More and more we're seeing companies step in to offer VR as a theme park or arcade type of experience, an...
Tesla Is Playing The Long Game
[Investing]
2016/10/18 11:20
Ranked by Forbes as the most innovative company in the world, Tesla Motors is certainly not a company afraid to push technological boundaries. So when the company's enigmatic CEO, Elon Musk, announced via Twitter the imminent unveiling of an 'unexpected product', rumours and predictions were abound. While the reveal was due to land today, Musk tweeted a few hours ago that it would be delayed un...
(Video) Sony Aromastic Mobile Scent Dispenser is Personal Mood Changer for Officer Workers
[Product]
2016/10/18 11:20
Sony is changing. The troubled Japanese electronics maker is trying new things as it navigates an inhospitable market dominated by the likes of Apple and Samsung.It has reduced its smartphone business and focused on the PlayStation, which gets a major boost this fall with the release of the PlayStation VR. The turnaround plan seems to be working as it posted a 666.5 percent rise in pretax profi...
MIT - Stretchy Optical Fibers for Implanting in The Body
[Tech]
2016/10/18 11:20
Biocompatible fibers could use light to stimulate cells or sense signs of disease.Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly stretchable optical fiber made from hydrogel — an elastic, rubbery material composed mostly of water. The fiber, which is as bendable as a rope of licorice, may one day be implanted in the body to deliver therapeutic pulses...
