Most cars have airbags that are designed to protect passengers in a crash, but Google’s driverless cars may go a step further, with airbags designed to protect nearby pedestrians.Google is working on a driverless car that already has spent countless test hours learning the rules of the road. In a new patent awarded today to Google today (March 24), the company outlined a system for external ai...

From Eggless Mayo to Portein-Filled Cricket Bars, The Companies Redefining How and What We Eat.1. PANERA BREADFor overhauling the QSR experience with tech and service. While other quick-service players like Starbucks roll out prepay and preorder technology, bakery-cafe chain Panera is going above that to reshape how diners interact with its cafes. Panera 2.0, launched in 2014 and currently bein...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...