Three months ago, surgeons in Holland implanted a transparent plastic skull in a woman whose skull has never stopped growing. Incredibly, the rare bone disease that was wrecking her vision and destroying her life has been been bested by a simple 3D printer. The team of surgeons, led by Dr. Bon Verweij at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, expect her new skull to last indefinitely, openin...

Artist Kristián Mensa sees the incredible potential in everyday objects. To him, a pear is not just a piece of fruit, but the body of a small bird. Likewise, a toilet paper roll doubles as a miniaturized red carpet for tiny celebrities. To create these whimsical compositions, Mensa pairs these items with minimalist drawings that incorporate the 3D elements among bold lines. The results are amu...

With apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Snapchat vying with conventional SMS to be the preferred texting method, the line between social media and texting is more blurred than ever. And brands have a real chance to capitalize on this, according to a newly released study by Dallas-based marketing group Epsilon."We are on the verge of a transformational moment, as consumer behavior is dic...

Prisma morphs your photos into fine art like Picasso or Mondrian, and it’s blowing up the iOS app charts. But what will be the fate of this red-hot social product? We’ve heard Prisma is in talks with investors about raising funding, but it might make more sense as an acquisition for Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat.When I asked Prisma co-founder and CEO Alexey Moiseenkov what’s going...

How does a country know where it stands in the digital revolution? Is it a vanguard member, a fast follower or simply a digital dawdler? The difference could mean billions of dollars in economic value generation.To find out, leaders can employ a new approach developed by Accenture and Oxford Economics. By assessing a nation’s use of digital technologies and the degree to which its businesses a...

What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.Putting Pokémon Go to work: Suddenly, Pokémon Go, the app based on the 20-year-old video game, is everywhere. People with smartphones are more like zombies than ever. Marketers are formulating their Pokémon Go strategies. Thanks, augmented reality!The consumer market is not the only place AR is taking off, according...

Kazuo Okada, Universal Entertainment Corp. chairman and former Steve Wynn partner, plans to challenge Macau in wooing Chinese gamblers to his Manila casino resort that could cost $4 billion and is scheduled to open in November.Okada, 73, wants his casino featuring a 100 meter (328 feet) dancing water fountain and indoor beach “to compete with what is in Macau” and other parts of Asia, said Ta...

Sephora Is Driving Mobile Sales With Tinder-Like Features and Digital Mad Libs Plus actual ads on the dating app Sephora has led the pack in mobile beauty retailers for a few years, and now it's taking a page from games and pop culture to help re-launch the Sephora Collection—its private label brand.Sephora's mobile and desktop site now includes two new features—dubbed "swipe it, shop it" and...

Organic Valley’s revamped website aims to personalize people’s consumption of organic products.JANA McCLELLAND is a third-generation dairy farmer in Petaluma, Calif. This October, she expects 600 to 1,200 people to visit her family’s farm.She plans to take them to the nursery, the milking parlor and the pastures.“We know people care where their food comes from,” she said.It is all part of...