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Hack-Proof Biometric Device Could Replace Passwords - JAR
[Product]
2015/08/06 10:27
JAR is a personal biometric crypto-key, which uses the customer’s fingertip as their password for every login and registration.The sheer number of passwords needed to protect online accounts means that one inevitably gets forgotten every now and then. But a new device called JAR, developed by the German startup of the same name, could put an end to this traumatic process of account retrieval,...
British Museum Transports Visitors to Bronze Age via Virtual Reality
[Tech]
2015/08/06 10:27
The Virtual Reality Weekend is the British Museum's first virtual reality visitor experience.For all the textbooks and museums at our disposal, sometimes it can still be difficult to really imagine what life was like in an earlier time. Visitors to the British Museum this weekend, however, won't have to imagine. They'll be transported to the Bronze Age using virtual reality.The Virtual Reality...
(Video) HD31 Project : An Exploratory Concept Developed by Zodiac Seats
[Design]
2015/08/06 10:27
With cascading seats, the HD31 upgrades legroom and plane capacity on short-haul flights.Zodiac Aerospace’s HD31 plane seat design lets passengers 15 percent more legroom (translatable to 4″). Despite the extra space, it also allows airliners to add up to 30 more seats per cabin.It makes perfect sense for budget airlines to find ways of stuffing more passengers into a plane. It keeps fares lo...
Smart Driver Seat That Responds to Gestures
[Tech]
2015/08/06 10:26
A multitude of professional drivers suffer from back problems. One cause: driver seats that are inadequately adjusted to each driver‘s ergonomic needs. Fraunhofer‘s researchers, in joint collaboration with Isringhausen GmbH & Co. KG, engineered a driver‘s seat whose shape and position can be adjusted by using simple hand gestures. Ease into the correct seat position: with the new seat mo...
Designers Reimagine the Lighthouse - Concordia Landscape
[Design]
2015/08/06 10:26
Concordia Landscape snagged first place honors with an abstract, deconstructed take on the lighthouse.Host of architectural competitions matterbetter recently put a call out for designers and architects to reimagine the lighthouse, with a concept structure that would also serve as a monument to the Costa Concordia disaster. From a total of 282 entries, three winners were chosen, each offering i...
(Patent) Apple Issued Patent for 3D Scanning Stylus
[Tech]
2015/08/05 10:46
A patent, issued this week, and filed at the beginning of 2014, may hint at some of Apple’s ambitions within this space.Most of you are probably familiar with what a stylus is. If you haven’t used one before, you likely are aware of their rather cumbersome characteristics. Most styli are used for drawing on an electronic screen, or pad, and oftentimes their ease-of-use isn’t anything like th...
Instagram Just Made a Major Move That is Going to Turn it Into a Huge Advertising Business
[Business]
2015/08/05 10:45
Instagram has switched on its advertising API (application programming interface.) It’s a major move for the Facebook owned photo sharing app, which is going to almost immediately help transform it into a major mobile advertising business to rival Google and Twitter.By opening up an API to partners, marketers can now — for the first time — start buying Instagram ads and planning their Instag...
The Smartphone is The New Sun
[Business]
2015/08/05 10:45
Today, there are well over 2bn smartphones in use, and there are between 3.5 and 4.5bn people with a mobile phone of some kind, out of only a little over 5bn adults on earth. Over the next few years almost all of the people who don't yet have a phone will get one, and almost all of the phones on earth will become smartphones. A decade ago some of that was subject to debate - today it isn't. Wha...
Clothes Tell You If You’re Dehydrated
[Tech]
2015/08/05 10:45
Paulien Routs has developed a sweat-sensitive textile coating that can provide a visual cue of hydration levels.Design researcher Paulien Routs has developed SOAK, a sweat-sensitive textile coating that provides a warning of dehydration. It can be applied to sportswear and changes color while the wearer is working out. The different colors provide a visual cue, showing the composition of their...
