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(PDF) MIT - How Machine Vision Is About to Change the Fashion World
[Tech]
2015/09/08 11:33
The way fashion shows influence street-chic outfits has long been debated. Now a machine vision system that can track how fashions spread through society is providing the first hard evidence.In the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, the notorious fashion editor Miranda Priestly sizes up people at a glance by analyzing their clothes, who designed them, and what year they date from. Priestly’s cha...
(Video) ‘Terminator’-Style Material Heals Itself
[Tech]
2015/09/08 11:33
NASA self-healing material can repair itself two seconds after being shot by a bullet.NASA’s coolest discovery yet might not be in outer space, but right here on Earth.The space agency has found a new material with the ability to self heal from a bullet wound in just two seconds.While they might not be able to recreate the Terminator just yet, the discovery could have applications for everythi...
Save Secures $16.7M To Repair Your Smartphone In No Time
[Investing]
2015/09/08 11:33
Damien Morin isn’t your average first-time founder. In less than two years, he managed to turn a non-scalable smartphone repair shop into an exponentially growing startup with hundreds of employees and more than $1.5 million in monthly revenue.Part of TheFamily, his startup Save (née Save My Smartphone) raised $16.7 million in equity and debt from IdInvest, 360 Capital Partners and business a...
(Video) Automultiscopic 3D Display That Doesn't Require Glasses
[Tech]
2015/09/08 11:33
Viewing 3D content without glasses or goggles has proved to be one of the toughest things for interface designers to achieve—it never really looks right. At this year’s SIGGRAPH, a group of researchers presented a display that creates a 3D human in stunning detail using a cluster of 216 projectors.A team from USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies has built an automultiscopic 3D display w...
Zomato Raises $60M and Launches a White-Label Service to Help Restaurants Go Online
[Investing]
2015/09/08 11:32
Restaurant search service Zomato has raised a fresh $60 million in funding in a round led by new entrant Temasek Holdings and existing investor Vy Capital.Founded in 2008, Zomato offers an online and mobile search service for 30 million restaurant-seekers in 20 countries. It serves up in-depth information including menus, photos, and locations, with users able to submit reviews and ratings.Thou...
Japan is Building a Giant Robotic Lettuce Factory
[Tech]
2015/09/08 11:32
In 2016, Japanese vegetable production company Spread plans (pdf) to begin building a lettuce factory in Kyoto that produces 30,000 heads of lettuce per day, or 10 million heads annually, using a growing technique that’s almost entirely automated.As of last year, the world’s largest vegetable factory by square footage, also located in Japan at an abandoned Sony factory in Miyagi Prefecture, p...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Shifting Tides : Global Economic Scenarios for 2015–25
[Investing]
2015/09/07 11:30
Are we in for a bumpy ride? How bumpy? And for how long?At the National People’s Congress in Beijing in March 2015, China’s Premier Li Keqiang announced a growth target of 7 percent, acknowledging that “deep-seated problems in the country’s economy are becoming more obvious.”1 Three months later and thousands of miles away in Washington, the World Bank lowered its growth forecasts across t...
(Video) Infento Offers Transformable Transportation for Kids as They Grow
[Product]
2015/09/07 11:30
The reconstructible Infento lets young designers build 19 models of scooters, bikes, trikes, carts, and sledges.Looking to both solve the problem of children quickly outgrowing their rides and give parent and child a fun project to create together, two Dutch inventors dreamed up Infento. The name, inspired by the Latin for "infinite makes," is a collection of creative ride-ons for ages 0-13. Wi...
EBay : 20 Years of Trading
[Business]
2015/09/07 11:30
IN THE dawn of the internet, shopping online was seen as a slightly whacky idea. But during an idle long weekend 20 years ago, Pierre Omidyar sat down at his computer to thrash out the first lines of code for AuctionWeb, an online marketplace. When a broken laser-pointer became the first item to be sold on the site, Mr Omidyar knew he was on to a good thing. He hired his first employee the foll...
