KDDI Research Institute announced on 16th March that the company has developed a prototype of an IoT gadget. The new device has a device name Charging Robo which will search and charge a smartphone automatically.While lots of gadgets (electronic devices) are full of personal belongings and life becomes very convenient. Charging a gadget has become an indispensable routine. When you wake up in t...

Building 21st-century skills, block by block. Play, Code. Create. In March 2016, Sony Global Education unveiled KOOV, a brilliant coding kit for young programmers.That’s the concept behind these sets of blocks for building colorful robots: seven types of blocks in seven colors. The kits are specifically designed to help develop STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) learning for...

PSFK’s Beauty Debrief explores how brands can build higher brand engagement by perfecting personalization.Over the past few years, consumers have become more knowledgeable and aware about the beauty industry, the products they produce and the ingredients involved. The role that the beauty brands play is shifting from being product creators, service providers and retail outlets, to companies th...

What could be cleaner than an electric car? The answer is everything this Tesla vacuum concept touches!This autonomous vacuum operates almost entirely independent of the user who only needs to empty out the collected debris and dust container. Able to track and map interior layouts, it will automatically depart its dedicated charging station and clean areas in sequence. Control it and keep an e...

New york studio dror has presented plans for a public park in istanbul, turkey. conceived as ‘a web of possibilities’, the firm’s masterplan for ‘parkorman’ comprises a series of different zones, each with their own distinct characteristics. ‘instead of dictating one’s path through the park, visitors write their own experience,’ explains the design team. ‘numerous non-linear pathways,...

How do you stay up to date with the latest musical hits? For many Americans, their dusty old radio in the corner of the kitchen beats their shiny new smartphone for music discovery. That's according to a recent survey from Edison Research which found that 19 percent of Americans use AM/FM radio most often to stay up to date with the latest hits. It also found that friends and family are the pri...

You’re probably already accustomed to mooching free wi-fi whenever you visit a friend, but according to a new patent Sony filed just last Friday, the company wants you to be able to steal power from a friend’s phone as well, without having to connect a single cable.Before you get too excited about the prospect of your smartphone getting a jumpstart from another mobile device, or even an appli...

In the latest installment of its “Color Chips” campaign, Sherwin-Williams creates a captivating African jungle teeming with bright, bountiful, beastly life.It took nearly 30,000 paint chips, along with 24 production artists working a total of 5,600 hours, to bring this majestic menagerie to life for 30 seconds:“We know people aren’t inspired by paint itself. What people really care about is...

Ad-Supported Internet Brings over $1 Trillion to the U.S. Economy, Representing 6 Percent of Country's Total GDP, According to IAB Study Led by Harvard Business School Professor. Industry Responsible for 10.4 Million American Jobs, or 7.3% of Total U.S. Nonfarm Employment, and Doubles Its Economic Contribution Since 2012The ad-supported internet ecosystem generated $1.121 trillion for the U.S....