Have you ever wondered which currencies receive the most trading action? The data for the following chart comes from a survey done every three years by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).Note that trading volume adds up to 200%, because each currency trade has a pairing.The Chinese yuan is now the 8th most traded currency in the world, for a total share of 4.0%.That means its share has...

Attach the mini microscope to your smartphone to take the test.Despite the fact that many of us spend a good portion of our day in front of a computer or pouring over documents, chances are we don't get our eyes checked as often as we should. Whatever the reason for this, there's now a solution that renders most of our excuses moot: the EyeQue Personal Vision Tracker, a smartphone-enabled visio...

I’ve owned Google Cardboard for about two years now. It’s gathering dust somewhere in my cupboard. The thing with VR is that people thought of just the obvious. 3D content that puts you in a different place. One minute you’re in the arctic, the next minute you’re underwater. Simulation like that does one thing. It makes your eyes see something your body can’t feel, and that looks fantastic...

Collectively, US unicorns are worth approximately $657B. Combined, these companies have raised just over $121B.The United States is home to 98 unicorn companies that are each valued at $1B+. As of 12/19/2016, nine private US companies are worth over $10B. The three most valuable unicorns in the US are Uber ($68B), Airbnb ($30B), and Palantir Technologies ($20B), and all of them are located in C...

As consumers get their first taste of voice-controlled home robots and motion-based virtual realities, a quiet swath of technologists are thinking big picture about what comes after that. The answer has major implications for the way we’ll interact with our devices in the near future.That answer is something the team of Boston-based startup Neurable spends a lot of time, yes, thinking about. T...

Kyocera Corporation out of Kyoto, Japan has announced the development of a tiny optical sensor for measuring blood flow within subcutaneous tissue. Potential mHealth applications utilize earbuds and other devices to sense stress levels, help prevent dehydration and avoid altitude sicknessKyocera Corporation (President: Goro Yamaguchi) announced that it has developed one of the smallest known op...

New platform, Emblematic, allows those consuming news to be inside the story through VR simulation.Launching soon, the platform is designed to help people understand what it feels like to face a natural or man-made disaster. The company’s CEO, former journalist Nonny de la Peña has developed the idea as the next frontier of journalism, explaining “It wasn’t until I started working with virt...

Birds have been developing winged flight technology ever since they stole it from the dinosaurs back in 160 million years ago. Early on, top bird aeronautical engineers realized that wings have a fundamental problem: They give you both lift (which you want) and drag (which you don’t). Lift is important for take-offs and landings and maneuverability, but once you get off the ground and are goin...

Dubbed the ‘homecam’, this darth vader camera concept depicts what the future of home security may be, with a touch of the ‘darkside’. South korea-based designer, kim hyeonseok, has created no-less than five science-fiction influenced product renderings in the past, all of which exhibit unique and authentic interpretations of the future of industrial design. the star wars-themed ‘homecam’...