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(Video) Theraflu Thermoscanner - First Outdoor Ad That Can Detect Fever
[Business]
2016/04/04 11:06
Take a thermo-selfie and show it to your boss as an excuse for not going to work.With the flu season in full swing, early detection of symptoms is a key to fast recovery. Theraflu wanted to create a tool which enables passersby to check if they have a fever quickly, without interrupting their daily commutes. As a result, Saatchi & Saatchi/Interactive Solutions Poland and Saatchi & Saatc...
FlipFlic Will Make Your Blinds Respond To The Sun
[Product]
2016/04/04 11:05
Smart blinds make your home feel a lot smarter, but they also cost a boatload. For motorized and app-connected shades like Somfy's or Lutron's, you're looking at prices ranging from $250 to upward of $1,000, £700 or AU$1,325 -- and that's per unit.In response, a few startups have endeavored to design retrofit devices that smarten your blinds and shades for under 100 bucks. The FlipFlic, now op...
Americans are Nuts for Almond Milk
[Consumer]
2016/04/04 11:04
Got milk? As children we were told that if we want to grow up big and strong, we should drink our milk.It’s full of protein for our muscles and calcium for our bones, and it’s just the right consistency to stick to our upper lips for the perfect milk mustache. But in the U.S., traditional milk is moo-ving over as almond milk is taking center stage.In fact, almond milk is now America’s favori...
(Video) AdrenaCard, an Epinephrine Autoinjector The Size of a Credit Card
[Product]
2016/04/04 11:03
The AdrenaCard is a new easy to carry device from a startup company of the same name based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.EpiPens save lives in cases of anaphylactic shock by letting patients with severe allergies deliver epinephrine quickly and easily. Yet, a lot of people don’t carry them because they’re the size of highlighters and are easy to ignore or forget about. The new autoinjector is sim...
(Video) Brain-Zapping Gadgets Promise To Make You a Better You - THYNC
[Tech]
2016/04/03 11:10
The Harvard-trained neurobiologist was taking advantage of one of his own inventions, a device called Thync, which promises to help users activate their body's “natural state of energy or calm” — for a retail price of a mere $199.Americans’ obsession with wellness is fueling a new category of consumer electronics, one that goes far beyond the ubiquitous Fitbits and UP activity wristbands th...
(Patent) Apple Patents Magnetic Connector for Stacking Up Peripherals
[Tech]
2016/04/03 11:09
Designed with "handheld electronics" in mind.If Apple really wants the iPad to be the future of computing, then it would help if the tablet could easily connect with multiple peripherals at once. A recently published patent from the iPhone-maker shows one way this might work, with the document outlining plans for a "stackable, magnetically-retained connector interface" designed particularly for...
(PDF) Pew Report - Household Expenditures and Income
[Consumer]
2016/04/03 11:08
Expenditures are a key but often overlooked element of family balance sheets. In measuring household financial security, significant attention is typically paid to income, but much less to whether those resources are sufficient to cover expenses. To begin addressing this gap in the policy discourse, this chartbook uses the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Expenditure Survey to explore hous...
(Video) This Porsche Magazine Ad Brings the 911 to Life as a Floating Hologram
[Business]
2016/04/03 11:07
Place the removable acetate prism over a tablet, and watch the magic unfold.Some advertisers have grown increasingly inventive with print media in recent years.Motorola, you may recall, created a button that let readers change the color of cellphones shown on the printed page, while the CW embedded a live Twitter feed in a magazine ad to hype its shows. And in 2014, a Nivea print campaign, harn...
There Were No Tech IPOs in Q1
[Investing]
2016/04/03 11:05
Private equity also got shut out.There are still a few days left in the first quarter of 2015, but we already know that the quarter will not have hosted a single IPO from the information technology sector. It also will be bereft of any traditional corporate issuers backed by private equity.Overall, only 11 companies priced offerings on U.S. exchanges in Q1, all of which were either biotechs or...
