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TruPosture Smart Shirt Helps Reduce Back Pain with Real-Time Guidance
[Product]
2015/10/05 11:47
The TruPosture smart shirt is designed to provide real-time posture feedback.Those who have suffered through any type of back pain know it's not a fun feeling. Given the amount of sedentary slouching at desks and/or strained hunkering over display screens done on a daily basis, it's a wonder that more people haven't been afflicted by the pinch of poor posture. Adela Health has just unveiled Tru...
Meet The Electric Bus That Could Push Every Other Polluting Bus Off the Road
[Tech]
2015/10/05 11:47
Proterra, the startup Popple runs, designed a sleek new electric bus that drove 258 miles on a single charge in a recent test. That's farther than most tiny electric cars can go and also farther than a daily city bus route.That means it's ready to start to replace the hundreds of thousands of diesel buses in the country, most of which average less than five miles to the gallon and pump out carb...
This Year Red Dot : Luminary Winner is Boostrac
[Design]
2015/10/04 11:10
Red Dot Design Award has announced its winners, congrats to all designers that have won the precious trophy. This year, there are 344 winning concepts from 31 categories, with more than 4,500 entries from more than 60 countries. This time, we’re not going to discuss the best of the best design, there are many others have done that. We’d like to mention the 5 concepts that are nominated for Re...
(PDF) BCG - Gearing Up for the New Era of China’s Outbound M&A
[Investing]
2015/10/04 11:09
At first glance, Chinese companies would appear to be enjoying a golden age of deal making: the outbound M&A market flourished from 2004 through 2014, with deal value growing at a compound annual rate of as much as 35 percent, and deal volume expanding at a compound annual rate of 9.5 percent. In 2014 alone, Chinese companies made 154 outbound M&A deals, with a total deal value of $26.1...
Forget CDs - Streaming Music Now Makes More Money for the U.S. Record Industry
[Business]
2015/10/04 11:08
Streaming is no longer the future of the music industry. It's the present.According to RIAA statistics compiled here by Statista, streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music generated $1.028 billion in sales for the U.S. music industry in the first half of 2014, up 23% from last year. That's still behind digital downloads, but that portion of the industry is shrinking — down 4% from the fi...
Selfies and Ethically Sourced Clothes Come Together in Fashion Revolution
[Business]
2015/10/04 11:07
In an effort to improve harsh working circumstances in clothing factories, Fashion World created the #WhoMadeMyClothes initiative.Have you ever stopped to wonder who made your clothes and where they came from? Most people probably haven’t – it’s just not something people normally think about. But all that is changing with the Fashion Revolution. A team of fashion lovers and conservationists...
What It Means to be Great
[Product]
2015/10/04 11:06
What makes a product great? I struggle with this question because being great is not just being better than good. Greatness is to goodness as wisdom is to smarts. Just like getting smarter and smarter may never make you wise, getting better and better does not mean ever becoming great.Greatness is transcendental. It’s hard to pin down. It inspires debate. It divides as much as it unites. It cr...
Percko - Wear It and Get Perfect Posture
[Product]
2015/10/04 11:05
Percko is an undershirt that teaches you how to have the right posture.On average we sit for over 9 hours a day, 365 days a year and if we are being honest, it’s hard to avoid slouching. But did you know that bad posture can lead to back pain?Back pain is the second most common reason people visit family doctors. So we’ve invented something that helps correct poor posture whether you're stand...
The Next iPhones Might Be Running on Mushroom Power
[Tech]
2015/10/04 11:04
Researchers from the University of California – Riverside are looking at Portobello fungi as our future batteries.A team of researchers from the University of California – Riverside has replaced an expensive battery component with cheap, readily available Portobello mushroom. Requiring less harmful chemicals to make and far friendlier to the environment than the current carbon sheets they rep...
