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(Video) Philips Hue Go Offers Smart Lighting Without The Cord
[Product]
2015/04/09 11:03
The Hue Go can output at up to 300 lumens when plugged in, but cuts it to 40 percent brightness when used unplugged to maximums battery, which gives you a pleasing but dim kind of ambient lighting.Overall, it’s plenty bright for most cases where you’d be using a portable lighting solution anyway, especially given that this isn’t a work light designed for the workshop, for instance. It’s als...
(Infographic) The CEO Bookshelf : 22 Top CEOs Reveal Their Favorite Books
[Business]
2015/04/08 11:27
Just as the books US presidents read shape their time in office, so do the titles that CEOs read during their tenure. Some reach for the classics like "The Catcher in the Rye." Others go for the quirky, such as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Then there are those CEOs that read books about other CEOs. For more recommendations, check out this visual reading list created by Domo and CEO.c...
(Video) New Camera Technique Detects Heart, Respiratory Rates in Nearly All People
[Tech]
2015/04/08 11:26
Video-based recognition of persons’ heart and breathing rates is no longer new, but the technology has been limited to people with light skin who are well illuminated by external lighting. Researchers at Rice University have developed their own version of the technique, which they call DistancePPG, that is able to compensate for different skin tones, patient movement, and the ambient lighting...
Diet Soda Drinkers Are Disappearing
[Consumer]
2015/04/08 11:26
Diet sodas are going back out of style. After four years of outselling Pepsi, Diet Coke is back in the No. 3 slot for top sodas in the U.S., according to the latest industry data, and other sugar-free brands are also dropping quickly.Overall, the number of soda drinkers in the U.S. continues to shrink, as is clear by the steady decline in the volume of soda produced since 2000. According to Gal...
How Rich People Make Their Money Totally Differently From Everyone Else
[Investing]
2015/04/08 11:26
Last night, Justin Wolfers Tweeted a chart from Visualizing Economics' Catherine Mulbrandon showing Lorenz curves ? distribution breakdowns ? by income source: labor, capital, business and capital gains.It reveals how different parts of the population get their income way differently than others ? but that the rich enjoy a minimum 50% share of each source of income, and practically the entire s...
Peugeot Design Shows an Ingenious Foodtruck
[Design]
2015/04/08 11:26
Le Bistrot du Lion transcends the traditional food truck by using a compact van and trailer with massive load capacity which both unfold to double their length and create an entire mobile restaurant catering for 30 patrons. This idea has legs.Good design is a functional expression of purpose and after 200 years of creating household technology and a century of making transportation technology,...
Multicultural Consumers by the Numbers : From Shopping to Tweeting
[Consumer]
2015/04/08 11:26
What You Need to Know About How Various Ethnic Groups Are Growing -- and ShrinkingThe makeup of the U.S. market is changing rapidly. Here's what you need to know about how various ethnic groups are growing - and shrinking - and how they're spending money and consuming media.[adweek]
(Video) Former Pinterest Engineering Head Launches the Meld Smart Stove Knob
[Product]
2015/04/08 11:25
Imagine if you didn’t have to worry about how long something needed to cook at a certain temperature on the stove. Imagine, now, that an app controls everything ? and you don’t even have to adjust the flame.That’s precisely what Jon Jenkins has been working on, along with a few of his buddies from his days at Amazon. They’ve formed a new startup called Meld. And they’re launching a Kicksta...
OaSisaw - Seesaw Shaped Pump
[Design]
2015/04/08 11:25
We suggest seesaw-shaped pump that applied the principle of leverage. African childeren can get clean water as much as they want without lots of labor through the seesaw. Besides, ground water contaminated by chronic problems in the existing water pump becomes clean throughout the filter.Competition: Spark:ConceptDesigner: Jinhyuk Kim Design Type: The third world's concept product Company / Org...
