The famous tech brand Microsoft has developed a genius way to draw people’s attention to their posture. A real time posture scanner was the great solution! You can see it in Stockholm!The more mobile we get the more we tend to carry. The fact is that we carry too many devices, such as large and heavy laptops on a daily basis and we also carry them wrong that leads then to back pain and sore ne...

“The best camera is the one that’s with you”. This phrase, coined by the award-winning photographer Chase Jarvis, probably best describes the impact that smartphone cameras had and still have on the world of photography. The cameras built into our phones may still be inferior to dedicated digital cameras in general and SLR cameras in particular, but they are constantly getting closer and the...

Construction giants, Caterpillar, use big data to mitigate the risks inherent in the industry.Failures or mistakes in the construction industry can cost lives and, here at Springwise, we take a keen interest in innovations that aim to mitigate risk in the sector. Recently, we wrote about flexible concrete that bends under pressure rather than cracking, useful in areas of the world sensitive to...

There are more than 300 million people worldwide suffering from significant hearing loss, Q System has been designed to help them to feel the sounds that they are missing. Q is a wearable captioning device that displays text and graphed emotions, making it easier for hearing impaired people to communicate with others. The system consists of a band that can be worn on user’s hand, an array micr...

Call centers aren’t what they used to be. Here’s how to capture the loyalty of increasingly demanding customers.The customer, so the saying goes, is always right—and these days it’s increasingly evident that customers don’t hesitate to flaunt their power. Assisted by technology, they wield unprecedented influence over the purchase of goods and services, as well as the ongoing care from the...

Luxury brands are putting more resources into China’s booming mobile app WeChat, where they can sell products directly to more than 600 million users.That’s no surprise. According to Bain & Company’s 2016 survey of nearly 1,500 Chinese consumers, 60 percent identified WeChat and Weibo as their online source for information on luxury goods.Here’s how Burberry, Coach and Chanel are using...

In a trial with 31 patients, the team found that HemaApp had a 69 percent correlation to the patient's blood test.In the developing world, anemia — a blood condition exacerbated by malnutrition or parasitic disease — is a staggeringly common health problem that often goes undiagnosed.In hospitals everywhere, children and adults with leukemia and other disorders require frequent blood draws to...

The Model X will haul mobile Design Studios to locations around the country.Are you interested in what Tesla has to offer, but find online ordering a little too impersonal? Maybe you live in one of the states where Tesla is barred from selling via its direct-to-consumer sales model, or the nearest Tesla Store is simply too far to justify a road trip? Well, perhaps Tesla can come to you, as the...

Mobile traffic sees 3X the blocking rate of the desktop says Blockmetry.While some in the industry are alarmed by ad blocking others dismiss it as overblown, it continues to grow. The latest evidence comes from Blockmetry, a company started by former Googler Pierre Far.Far told me last week that he became fascinated by content (ad and analytics) blocking during his last couple of years at Googl...