Movie studios, media companies and smart money VCs are all investing heavily into AR/VR. We mapped out the startup landscape.Funding to AR/VR startups reached an all-time high in deals and dollars last year. But with few exciting deals in the past few months and an absence of positive news or apparent progress from stealthy AR headset startup Magic Leap, interest in augmented and virtual realit...

There’s a big opportunity for digital suppliers out there, but unlocking the challenge is not an easy task.Today, in just about every industry, companies are exploring—or pursuing—digital transformations to address multiple needs, including rising customer expectations and the need to adapt ever quicker to disruptive new business models and capabilities. Companies “get it.” They recognize...

Dutch airline KLM has started a pilot project to see if facial recognition software would make boarding any easier and quicker for passengers.The “biometric boarding” technology has been designed so that passengers do not have to show their passport or boarding pass at the gate.The system has been installed at a single gate at the airline’s home airport of Schiphol in Amsterdam and is expect...

Here’s how quickly Android has caught up to Windows in terms of global internet usage. As if it wasn’t obvious enough that computing is going increasingly mobile, a recent report from StatCounter says that Android is now just behind Windows in terms of the most popular operating systems for getting online around the globe. According to the analytics firm, 38.6% of global internet usage came f...

Flippy flips hamburgers, but is designed to be a more general kitchen assistant.At a Caliburger restaurant in Pasadena, California, Miso Robotics and Cali Group have taken the wraps off Flippy, a "collaborative kitchen assistant" that uses computer vision and deep learning to take over the job of grilling burger patties and leaving the chef to do the less grease-spattery jobs of assembling the...

In Tokyo, white button-down shirts are about as ubiquitous as the poorly concealed nipples underneath, and, according to a 2013 survey, most folks do not welcome the sight. One might suggest simply looking away, but, let’s face it, avoiding eye contact with purple nurples is like ignoring glowing eyes in a dark forest: not possible.Now, after two years of research and development, innovative J...

All of us who grew up with a phone stuck to our face are going to be saying “What?! I can’t hear you!” later in life. That is, unless we use the Bone Case! While regular cellphone use can lead to eardrum damage, the Bone Case uses a technology called bone conduction. It directly relays audio vibrations to the bones around your ear which then get carried to your brain without having to pass t...

With Tesla, Google, and Amazon making new innovations every day, the car of 2025 looks like it will be an extraordinarily safe and green machine. How about a solar powered car? Or a car that parks itself, drives itself, and communicates with other vehicles on the road? Things that are just fancy features today, like back-up cameras and zero-emission engines, will be mandated by many state and f...

According to a Forrester report, robots will eliminate 6 percent of all jobs in the U.S. by 2021. The Economist’s assessment is even more expansive – they believe that within the next ten to twenty years nearly half of American jobs could become automated.This, however, doesn’t mean that life will soon be like “The Jetsons”. As technological developments have done in the past, the next gen...