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(Video) Impossible Foods Raises a Whopping $108M For Its Plant-Based Burgers
[Investing]
2015/10/12 12:16
Impossible Foods, a four-year-old, Redwood City, Ca.-based company at work on a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants, has raised $108 million in new funding from a powerful group of backers.Investors in the round, which was led by UBS, include Viking Global Investors and earlier backers Khosla Ventures; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates; and Horizons Ventures, which inves...
(Video) A Keyboard to Conceal Your Naughty Text Messages
[Product]
2015/10/12 12:15
Mobile application, Kibo, lets users conceal personal messages under the veil of everyday digital banter.Covert messaging has come to define communication among the millennial cohort. While Snapchat and its competitors have found success in the ‘burn after reading’ method of discretion, users still risk accidental oversharing with over-the-shoulder glances and the meddling of curious coworker...
(PDF) Dashboard Anticipates What Drivers Will Do Next, Improving Road Safety
[Tech]
2015/10/12 12:15
Some of us can’t wait until driverless cars are a reality so we can sit in the back watching movies during our commute. Others view computers controlling a fundamentally autonomous act like driving with suspicion. We still have a decade or more to wait before we see how it turns out, but meanwhile the Robo Brain project, in collaboration with partner Brain4Cars, has moved computer-assisted dri...
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
[Consumer]
2015/10/12 12:15
THE 2015 Nobel peace prize has been awarded in Oslo this morning to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet. The group, comprised of four Tunisian organisations—representing areas such as human rights, public welfare and principles of law— was selected “for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011”, accordin...
(Video) UV-Light Enabled Catheter Fixes Heart Defects Without Surgery
[Tech]
2015/10/12 12:15
Advances in medicine are treating patients in ways that were never thought possible. The latest breakthrough comes from a team of scientists in Boston who have developed a way to fix holes in the heart without the need for invasive surgery. They created a ground-breaking catheter, biodegradable glue and patch that fit inside the patient's veins and are guided directly into the heart. Once there...
The Pacifier Thermometer
[Design]
2015/10/12 12:15
Pacifier Thermometer works like an alarm. Its material exposed outside will change color if the baby's temperature rises to a certain value. It alert parents of baby’s disease as quickly as possible. Parents will take effective measures before more harm.Website : http://www.helenzhou.me/pacifier[helenzhou]
(PDF) Mckinsey - Urban Mobility at a Tipping Point
[Business]
2015/10/11 11:10
As more of the world’s cities become congested and polluted, new business models and technologies are emerging to solve the mobility challenge.Cities move. People hurry from corner to corner; cars and trucks roll along the roads, while bicycles and scooters jostle for space.But sometimes that movement falters, and with it the dynamism that is the hallmark of great cities. Unhealthy smog levels...
(PDF) Disney Intends on Saving Coloring Books with Augmented Reality
[Tech]
2015/10/11 11:09
Researchers at the company's laboratories have created a way to convert 2D pages into 3D avatars in real time.Disney Research in Zurich has come up with a new system of turning coloring book pages into 3D art that pops out of the page. The technology lets you color a page any way you want before it brings the page to life in a 3D avatar, floating above the page and viewable through a mobile dev...
Micro-Home for The Big City Moves When You Do - Kasita
[Design]
2015/10/11 11:07
The plan is, when you want to move, Kasita can simply move with you. The kind of person who moves into a dumpster to investigate sustainable living is sure to know a thing or two about downsizing. Dr. Jeff Wilson, aka Professor Dumpster, drew upon this experience to co-create Kasita: a modern and smart urban micro-home. Geared toward professional types, it can be moved to another location with...
