A digital revolution is putting more than half a trillion dollars into play. Television and filmed entertainment, especially traditional broadcast TV, is being transformed by the big and fast-growing inroads of internet and over-the-top (OTT) video platforms. Some $570 billion in annual market value—in content creation, aggregation, and distribution—is at stake.OTT television—representing so...

A brand new sport has been created specifically due to new technology: Dronesurfing.A professional cinematographic company called Freefly used a drone, the Freefly Alta 8, on a day with minimal waves to help pull their boarder across the water. While the drone does have a 20-pound maximum cargo limit, it is able to pull a person across the water (after getting a running start).To do a little dr...

AllSet, an app that promises to cut restaurant wait time in half by allowing customers to book tables and preorder meals, announced today that it raised a $2.35 million investment led by New York-based VC firm Metamorphic Ventures.With operations in San Francisco, Palo Alto (California), and Manhattan, AllSet plans to expand its service to Los Angeles and Chicago. The funding capital will also...

UK-based Wahanda (now Treatwell) and Estee Lauder lead in industry acquisitions.Beauty brands, CPG companies, and private equity firms are snapping up beauty and cosmetics startups at record rates. We’ve already seen 39 beauty acquisitions in the first eight months of 2016, nearly as many as in all of 2015, when there were 41 acquisitions in the category. If M&A activity continues at its c...

IFM is using autonomous drones to automate data capture inside warehouses, streamlining the process of managing inventory.Springwise has seen various breakthroughs in technology used to automate the process of accurate cataloguing, for example, a robotic librarian in Singapore that scans the shelves and lists missing books. Now, IFM (Intelligent Flying Machines) applies a similar approach to in...

It sounds like something out of a funhouse, but this modernist retreat is actually a study in how architecture affects relationships.Recently, the performance artists Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley designed and built a long, lean glass house in a bucolic field at the OMI International Arts Center in Upstate New York. The floorplan is a mirror image, with one balcony, bedroom, and sitting area o...

PriestmanGoode says the Horizon and Island Bay seats can be installed on new or existing trains and trams and could be rolled out within a year.UK studio PriestmanGoode has designed two train and tram seats aimed at alleviating the problem of overcrowding on transport networks. Both the streamlined Horizon and the adaptable Island Bay seats allow for more seating in a standard commuter carriage...

The infographic comes to us from SCMP, and in total it highlights 34 individual components in an iPhone 6s.These parts range from German accelerometers to camera modules from Sony in Japan. Parts come from a range of eight countries, which include the United States, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.Many people will be likely surprised to learn that there a...

Silicon Valley is the capital of disruption. It’s the epicenter of the innovation earthquake. It’s the leader of the new way forward. And Apple, as the industry’s Think Different darling, is at the forefront of the revolution. So much so, in fact, that it decided a patent a sweet bag.The patent was filed in March and published by the US Patent and Trademark Office last week. The retail vesse...