It’s all about connecting the dots and relating to the present generation. Like it or not, children learn a lot more things via the digital world and gamifying health and hygiene is what the Electrolux HP+ intends to do.Using funky projections that educate a child about the differences between healthy and unhealthy food, the HP+ engages and makes it fun to inculcate good habits. Washing hands...

Despite an estimated $142 billion market for mobile payments by 2019, few solutions have gained traction in the US. Scattered successes among a few providers have revealed what may be the logical direction for success, but the landscape is still fragmented and unknown. To succeed, a mobile payment system will have to solve multiple issues that have stymied adoption in the past. How should merch...

Though considered an epic failure, according to its makers and a recent patent, Google Glass might have simply suffered from first-version woes.Google announced that they would no longer be selling Google Glass in January of this year, and at that time, the device was pulled from the market. It seems that the futuristic technology was a little before its time, and not much of a fashion statemen...

Target, the second largest general merchandise retailer in the U.S., announced this morning that it will start testing beacon technology in 50 of its stores nationwide. With beacon technology, the company says it will be able to send information about deals as well as recommendations directly to consumers’ smartphones, provided they opt in to receive these alerts.Initially, the beacon technolo...

We’re in the midst of a startup revolution. That’s the crux of a new report on the top 20 entrepreneurial hubs in the world, published by the Compass Group. Seattle’s startup ecosystem ranks eighth on the list, just behind Chicago and ahead of Berlin.The findings are based on five metrics — performance (capital raised, exit valuations), funding (VC investment, duration of fundraising period...

Glasses That Confuse Facial Recognition Systems Are Coming to Japan.We might soon be living in a world where advertisers exploit facial recognition technology to target us with customized ads in streets. Or, according to the researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII), where our photographs are snapped by surveillance or smartphone cameras equipped with facial recognition, a...

A naturally-occurring enzyme has been found to dramatically reduce the half-life of nicotine in the blood.Nicotine replacement therapy, such as pills, gum and patches, can make the road to quitting smoking a little less rocky, but these aren't always effective and a tremendous amount of discipline still plays the major role. A team of US-based researchers has now uncovered an enzyme found in na...

Taste the rainbow, or have a Black Coffee 19-1111, at the Pantone Cafe, where every menu item was inspired by a color on Pantone's color space.At the Pantone Cafe in Monaco, you can grab a scoop of Mango 17-1446 ice cream or a Strawberry Pink 16-1731 éclair, before washing your snack down with a glass of Vibrant Orange 16-364 juice.That’s because every menu item at the cafe—which was created...

Arguably, the single best way to ruin a CEO’s day is to report that an activist is on the phone and has just taken a position in the CEO’s company.[click to enlarge]More and more CEOs are getting this call, as activist investing has exploded in recent years. We examined more than 400 activist engagements and found that the targets are getting larger and the industries more diverse. We also fo...