Form better teeth-cleaning techniques using technology developed by hygiene giant's call to third party developers.Good oral hygiene is important to a healthy lifestyle, but spending an extended period making sure those pearly whites live up to the name is not always easy. Oral-B is doing their best to make the process easy, fun, and technologically savvy. Their latest innovation to their tooth...

Why pay a hotel for a 24-hours stay when you just need a bed for nine?A new hotel in Japan is offering nine-hour rentals on small cubicles with a single purpose?to put you to sleep. Inside the hotel, the sleeping pods are stacked, with plenty in each room. For Japanese cities running out of space and affordable rooms, the approach from the aptly named ninehours hotel makes perfect sense.To chec...

The past few years have been relatively good ones for the world’s leading automotive suppliers. Thanks to an industry recovery from the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 and successful cost-cutting initiatives, earnings and return on capital for the ten largest automotive suppliers are approaching their highs of about a decade ago. Global auto sales remain strong, powered by robust grow...

Although Apple's software services are a drop in the bucket compared with its iPhone business, analysts believe they can boost the company’s total operating income by as much as $4 billion by 2017. Based on Morgan Stanley Research data charted for us by BI Intelligence, new services, including Apple’s mobile payments solution Apple Pay, will provide more sources of software revenue for Apple...

Where a number of startups have recently failed, Stratos hopes to succeed. The mobile payment startup from Michigan just announced a new smart card that combines all your accounts to make mobile payments easier. It has plenty of competition, and the odds might be against it considering the rise of integrated services like Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Android Pay. But it has a chance to thanks to...

Audi is testing a new technology that eases many assembly activities: the so-called “chairless chair.” This high-tech carbon-fiber construction allows employees to sit without a chair. At the same time, it improves their posture and reduces the strain on their legs.* Three prototypes in use on assembly lines in Neckarsulm* Carbon-fiber construction supports employees in assembly workAudi AG i...

At MWC Fujitsu is displaying a smartphone prototype with an iris-scanning authentication system.Most smartphones require some sort of password or pattern input to unlock them, whilst some have voice print recognition, and a few ? such as Apple's iPhone 5S and Samsung's Galaxy S5 ? even use fingerprint scanning. But Fujitsu claims to have gone one better by introducing iris pattern recognition o...

Podo is the world’s first 'stick and shoot,' app-controlled cameraThe portable Podo camera sticks to any solid surface, using its magnet or suction pad, and connects wirelessly with smartphones via Bluetooth to take photos, videos and time-lapse GIFS. Consumers can use the device to take group photos from unique vantage points (like ceilings), but it’s intended for any situation when photos m...

Bathroom faucets have evolved from the lowly status of being tools to wash our hands to status symbols. Taking the design evolution a step in the direction of engineering, the Swirl Faucet focuses its attention on the flow of the water. It features beautiful flow with intricate swirls, giving you the kind of hand wash that makes you feel like the rich and famous, even if you’re not!Designer :...