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(Infographic) Disrupting Logistics : The Startups That Are Unbundling FedEx & UPS
[Tech]
2016/08/08 11:29
From local delivery to on-demand shipping and heavy freight, startups are pinpointing a range of services traditionally associated with logistics giants like FedEx.[click to enlarge]Over the past few years, a diverse group of startups have cropped up within the shipping and logistics industry, applying technology and new on-demand economy concepts to lower costs, increase flexibility, and strea...
(Video) Reversing Aging: Clinical Trials For “Young-to-Old” Blood Transfusions Begin
[Tech]
2016/08/08 11:29
California-based startup Ambrosia is starting clinical trials that will see older people pumped with blood from younger donors, in the hopes of rejuvenating their bodies.FOUNTAIN FROM YOUTH?Reversing and eliminating aging has always been one of the true Holy Grails of medical science. Like the search for the rumored Grail, the journey to eliminate aging will be a difficult one– and there is so...
Formlabs Raises $35M Series B, Announces Autodesk Partnership
[Investing]
2016/08/08 11:28
Formlabs is shaping up to be something of a rare bright spot in a world of desktop 3D printers. While plenty of other devices have come and gone, failing to live up to the promise of consumer electronics’ Next Big Thing, the company’s pro-level technology has continued to pique the interest of hobbyists and prototypers alike.A couple of months after picking up an online 3D printing marketplac...
(Video) Virtual Reality Technology in the Operating Room
[Tech]
2016/08/08 11:28
Mt. Sinai's new AR tech overlays 3D models into surgeon's eyepiece. The medical heads-up-display inserts images into the microscope. For the medical community, virtual and augmented reality offer the tantalizing opportunity to visualize hidden or blocked areas of the body. This year has seen some fascinating applications, from mapping a patient's brain mid-operation to livestreaming the actual...
Meatless Burger Uses Bloody Special Ingredient to Replicate The Real Thing
[Product]
2016/08/08 11:28
The Impossible Burger was recently added as a regular menu item at New York City eatery Momofuku Nishi. While food scientists have been in pursuit of the perfect lab-made hamburger, most of the results have been poor imitations or prohibitively expensive. Impossible Foods is the latest alternative food company attempting to tickle the tastebuds with its meatless Impossible Burger, which is clai...
Gecko Bionic Design Window Cleaner
[Design]
2016/08/08 11:28
Gecko Bionic Design Window Cleaner, just like its name suggests, this concept window cleaner was inspired by a Gecko’s ability to climb different surfaces easy. The key to the gecko’s sticking success is that tiny hair like structures called setae that can be found on the base of its toes. Those microscopic bristles have the ability to split into hundreds of nano-sized tips called septula, gi...
(PDF) Why Americans Are Wary of Using Technology to ‘Enhance’ Humans
[Consumer]
2016/08/07 11:10
Emerging technologies that draw from biomedical technology, nanotechnology, information technology and other fields are developing at a rapid pace and may lead to any number of ways people might be able to “upgrade” themselves. Such technologies, in the pipeline now to address medical and therapeutic needs, could produce new ways for humans to push the boundaries of their abilities, making th...
(Video) Ikea's "Let's Relax" Ad Imagines a 17th-Century Version of Instagramming Food
[Business]
2016/08/07 11:09
There wasn't an app for that.WHAT: A look at what FOMO might've looked like in the 18th century, when an aristocratic family decides to "share" the perfect dinner with their social network.WHO: Ikea, AcneWHY WE CARE: It's fun to see our modern habits in the context of another time, but here Ikea is using the past to shame our obsession with meal shots on Instagram and Facebook. Based on the bra...
(PDF) BCG - Leapfrogging : Value-Based Health Care Comes to Emerging Markets
[Business]
2016/08/07 11:08
In the global debate about value-based health care, the lion’s share of attention has focused on the developed world. It makes sense. The new emphasis on value is, in large part, a response to the failure of conventional cost-control initiatives to stop or slow the rapid growth in health care costs. And the vast majority of those costs—roughly three-quarters of global expenditures on health c...
