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Food Compost Bin Concept Turns Food Waste and Cardboard Into Fertilizer
[Design]
2024/03/13 09:03
Our eating habits have changed drastically over the past years, especially after the recent boom in food delivery services. Unfortunately, this isn’t always for the best as it has encouraged unhealthy lifestyles and increased the amount of waste we produce. Of course, there are services that try to remedy that with healthy food options and more sustainable packaging, but those don’t always re...
(PDF) Mckinsey Time to Move : Sporting Goods 2024
[Business]
2024/03/12 09:10
Many sporting goods executives are looking to 2024 with more optimism. But in the year ahead, they will need to adapt to shifting consumer preferences, revisit planning practices, embrace ecosystems, and take action on sustainability.As the world continued its uneven progress in 2023, the sporting goods industry faced familiar challenges. Economic headwinds, persistent inflation, and regional c...
Apple Car Designs Give Tantalizing Look at What Might Have Been
[Design]
2024/03/12 09:09
The Apple car was a case study in what happens when corporate indecision, technological challenges and market realities combine: a wasted opportunity that sets back the company’s future.The Starters[The Volkswagen ID Buzz concept car from 2017.Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg]Around 2014, Apple Inc. had a plan that would diversify revenue and chart a future beyond the iPhone in one full s...
MIT - Is This The Future of Fashion ?
[Tech]
2024/03/12 09:08
Developed by the Self-Assembly Lab, the 4D Knit Dress uses several technologies to create a custom design and a custom fit, while addressing sustainability concerns.Students in the Self-Assembly Lab have been working with dynamic textiles for several years. The yarns they create can change shape, change property, change insulation, or become breathable. Previous applications to tailor garments...
CB Insights - State of CVC 2023 Report
[Investing]
2024/03/12 09:07
Corporate venture capital-backed deals and dollars fall to multi-year lows as CVCs shield themselves from the volatile tech market.The corporate venture capital (CVC) market has constricted amid corporate belt-tightening and subdued returns from startup exits. In 2023, deals from CVCs fell to 3,545 — the lowest level since 2019 — marking a 32% drop YoY. At the same time, fewer new CVCs are em...
Covariant is Building ChatGPT for Robots
[Tech]
2024/03/12 09:06
Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of the UC Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, “is basically a large language model (LLM), but for robot language.”RFM-1 is the result of, among other things, a massive trove of data collected from the deployment of Covariant’s Brain AI platfo...
International Tourism to Surpass Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2024
[Business]
2024/03/12 09:05
While few industries were spared by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic over the past three years, even fewer have been hit as hard as the tourism sector. After Covid-19 had made 2020 "the worst year in tourism history", international tourist arrivals increased by just 13 percent in 2021, as travel restrictions remained in place for long periods in many parts of the world. Now, nearly four year...
Korean Battery Makers Ease Driver Anxiety With Winter-Proof Cells
[Tech]
2024/03/12 09:04
Major battery makers seek to address driver concerns that risk holding back world's transition to electric vehicles.[An SK On display at the InterBattery exhibition on March 8 in Seoul.Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg]Cold weather performance, slow charging and range anxiety took center stage at South Korea’s biggest battery industry gathering.The issues are major sources of concern for p...
Can Recycled Paper Packaging Replace Bubble Wrap ? Flexi-Hex
[Product]
2024/03/12 09:03
The honeycomb design can protect everything from surfboards and smartphones to wine bottles.In the UK alone, 240,000 miles of bubble wrap are produced every year, and, although it can be recycled, the vast majority of this fossil-based packaging ends up in landfill. It’s crucial to find alternatives to plastic that don’t rely on the consumption of fossil fuels, and one Cornish B Corp has crea...
