While Uber may not have made a lot of positive headlines lately, the company’s rise to fame over the past few years has been nothing short of impressive. Having started with an app that allowed customers to hail a black car as a more luxurious taxi alternative, UberX, the company’s peer-to-peer ride-hailing service it is now mainly known for, really struck a nerve with customers when it was l...

In Spain, Ford have developed a new crib reproduces the movements and sounds of a car to promote their Max vehicle.For tired parents, getting a baby to sleep can be a herculean challenge. We have seen a number of innovations that support mums and dads in this department. Amongst them, a smart crib designed by Yves Behar and a portable device that attaches to a crib to provide a rocking motion....

There is still some final testing of the drone delivery service between the two Swiss hospitals to play out.Swiss Post revealed last year that it had teamed up with California's Matternet to trial delivery drones, at the same time noting that it didn't expect any widespread use for around five years. We're not there yet, but things are moving along just nicely, with the Swiss aviation authority...

If you are born in the 1990s, chances are that you did not have first-hand experience with the earliest forms of web design. Based in the UK, creative agency Monitor has created an infographic that traces the historical timeline of web design, from the first basic text website with hyperlinked words to other pages in 1991 to responsive web design in 2010. It also features some fun facts about w...

Elon Musk rewrites the playbook for launching a new car.One year ago this week, Elon Musk took to a stage to unveil his most important vehicle yet: the $35,000 Model 3. The electric five-seater accelerates as fast as the the best-selling luxury sport sedans in America—the BMW 3 Series and the Mercedes C Class—and costs about the same.The value proposition was the best ever for an electric car...

The venture capital funnel highlights the natural selection inherent in the venture capital process. 70% of companies are orphaned or die along the way.Anecdotally, it’s known that most startups fail. But looking at the data, we can see the hard truth in the numbers and better understand where in the funding lifecycle startups begin to lose traction.We followed a cohort of over 1,000 startups...

Every year, engineers from Festo's Bionic Learning Network take a new batch of bio-inspired robots to the Hannover Messe trade fair. Previous highlights have included robotic ants capable of working together, a monster dragonfly that can move in all directions and helium-filled flying penguins. This year, the German automation company is showcasing a tentacle-packing pick and pack gripper and t...

Digital technology, despite its seeming ubiquity, has only begun to penetrate industries. As it continues its advance, the implications for revenues, profits, and opportunities will be dramatic.As new markets emerge, profit pools shift, and digital technologies pervade more of everyday life, it’s easy to assume that the economy’s digitization is already far advanced. According to our latest r...

Manhattan is packed with towers, but the city still has height restrictions in various neighborhoods.As a way to get around these mandates, New York firm Clouds Architecture Office has proposed an outlandish skyscraper that would hang from cables attached to an asteroid. Since the tower wouldn't touch the ground, the designers say it would bypass maximum height restrictions. (Regardless, it's d...