Elbow is a clever, perhaps too clever, cassette player concept that was unveiled by the "audiovisual art organization" BrainMonk a year ago. Now BrainMonk is looking into the feasibility of actually building it, and has put out a PDF that details the necessary components, according to Music Crowns.The concept itself is simple: what if a cassette player didn't have any of that nasty boxy stuff t...

Amazon controls 70% of the voice-enabled speaker device market.While still far from mass adoption, virtual assistants are becoming more widely used by Americans, according to eMarketer’s first forecast on users of digital assistants, such as Siri, and voice-enabled speakers, like Amazon Echo.US Voice-Enabled Speaker User Share, by Player, 2017 (% of total)This year, 35.6 million Americans will...

With “Real Beauty Bottles,” the brand has put its long-running campaign ideals into its package design.For more than a decade, Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign has been challenging our ideas of what beauty is, what it means, and why we think about it the way we do. Recently, the brand has extended its message into a new Real Moms campaign and product line, and hacking stock images to get a mo...

An undergraduate at new jersey institute of technology creates his own plastic braces using a 3D printer and $60 worth of materials and they actually worked. last year amos dudley had a realization.he wasn’t smiling, and it was because he was unhappy with his teeth. being a student, he didn’t want to splash thousands of dollars on a whole new set of braces, so the designer decided to make his...

Facebook Psychology : Is Addiction Affecting Our Minds ?Infographic : http://ig.bestmastersinpsychology.com/facebook-psychology.png[nowsourcing]

These technologies all have staying power. They will affect the economy and our politics, improve medicine, or influence our culture. Some are unfolding now; others will take a decade or more to develop. But you should know about all of them right now.Every year since 2002, MIT Technology Review has published its list of the 10 technologies it predicts will have the greatest innovative impact l...

Apple had $256.8 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities by the end of the quarter, of which $239 billion was held outside the United States. To illustrate how much money that is, we put together an imaginary shopping list of companies that Apple could acquire with that cash (assuming they would pay market value). It’s a pretty long list and the companies on it aren’t exac...

The New Retail: Lessons from China for the West.Imagine being in the middle of Times Square, surrounded by flashing lights, fast-talking vendors, street performers, live music, noisy traffic jams, and endless other distractions. Now imagine you’re online and surrounded by the same energetic chaos. Welcome to China’s digital marketplace, where shopping is an adventure—a fire hose of rapidly c...

As standing desks become more popular with the increasing amount of information available about the health-related dangers associated with sitting for several hours a day, brands like Deskview are providing innovative standing desk options that many of its competitors are not. The Deskview is distinct in three different ways – setup, convenience and design. In regards to setup, it takes approx...