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(Video) These Audi 'Billboards' Are Nothing But Hot Air
[Business]
2015/03/26 11:07
This Audi Emits Nothing but Water Vapor, So Its Billboards Are Made of That Too. More innovative outdoor from thjnk. Innovative products deserve advertising that itself is innovative?embodying the promise of what's for sale in the way it's being sold. This Audi campaign from German agency thjnk does a nice job of that.The Audi A7 Sportback h-tron uses a fuel cell coupled with a hybrid battery a...
Nuvo's Ritmo Beats and PregSense Wearables Provide Continuous Pregnancy Monitoring
[Product]
2015/03/26 11:06
Ritmo Beats and PregSense are designed to make pregnancy more transparent for parents and doctors.You might remember Nuvo from its prenatal music system released back in 2010, but the company's latest efforts, known as the Ritmo Beats and PregSense, are decidedly more ambitious. The two products are aimed at consumer and medical users respectively, and are designed to provide in-depth pregnancy...
(Video) Slack is Now Worth $2 Billion ? It Doubled its Value in 6 Months
[Investing]
2015/03/26 11:05
Slack, the chat app that's been the talk of the startup world for the last year thanks to its incredible growth, is in talks to raise another round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, according to a Bloomberg report.The report didn't say how much Slack is seeking to raise.If the report is accurate, it would mean Slack's value has doubled in the last six months or so ? the company raised $120...
(Infographic) Startups : Location, Location, Location
[Business]
2015/03/26 11:03
Starting a business poses many questions, but first and foremost is the idea of location and how it will play a role in the startups imminent failure or success. When a startup company is set in motion one of the most fundamental questions to answer is, where in the world should this startup be launched? The following infographic by Washington State University’s OMBA program breaks down the be...
Artist Wants To Map Every Single Human Skin Tone On Earth
[Design]
2015/03/26 11:03
Photographer Angelica Dass has matched 2,000 human faces with their corresponding Pantone hue.Perhaps, in the near future, besides wearing mobile devices on our faces and sporting unisex high-waisted pants, we’ll cease to refer to people as black or white, or some variant in between. Instead, we’ll use their corresponding Pantone color to describe the tone of their skin.If this happens, we’l...
(Video) Incredible New Invention, Liquiglide Has Solved a Universally Annoying Problem
[Investing]
2015/03/25 16:22
One of the most frustrating feelings in the world is struggling to get the last bit of ketchup out of the bottle or the last squirt of toothpaste out of the tube.Now there's a coating called LiquiGlide that can keep the inside of a container permanently wet and allow its contents to easily slide out. Look how easy it is get to mayonnaise out of a bottle coated in LiquiGlide:And it's even more i...
Here's The Hierarchy of Luxury Brands Around the World
[Business]
2015/03/25 16:22
Brands are the best way to show off wealth, and there is a flood of new millionaires around the world who like showing off."The brands bought are actually more important than the level of money earned," HSBC managing director Erwan Rambourg writes in his recent book, "The Bling Dynasty: Why the Reign of Chinese Luxury Shoppers Has Only Just Begun."Rambourg created a brand pyramid to show how ma...
(Patent) Apple’s New Digital Camera Patent Uses Prisms to Create More Lifelike Photos
[Tech]
2015/03/25 16:21
As AppleInsider reported, Apple has been awarded a patent for a new type of sensor for smartphone cameras that could dramatically improve how images are captured by its iPhones. The patent uses the same technology that’s found on this seminal prog-rock album cover: prisms.According to the patent, the digital cameras found in most smartphones have a single light sensor. That has a color filter...
What Bubble ? Many Social Media Stocks are Losers
[Investing]
2015/03/25 16:21
If you believe the bears, this is a stock market that only SpongeBob SquarePants could love. There appear to be a lot of bubbles.The Nasdaq is back above 5,000 and not far from its all-time high.And social media stocks are leading the charge in tech. Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) is up more than 35% so far this year. Facebook (FB, Tech30) is at an all-time high. LinkedIn (LNKD, Tech30) trades for near...
