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AI-Powered Toilet Detects Kidney Disease and Diabetes - Olive KG
[Product]
2022/10/26 09:07
A new toilet seat could help to passively detect a number of medical conditions, potentially saving lives.An Israeli startup has developed a hi-tech toilet seat that can scan urine for early signs of diabetes, chronic kidney disease, bladder cancer, urinary tract infections, and even dehydration. The company, Olive Diagnostics, describes its tech as the “world’s first AI and spectroscopy-base...
Tellius Raises $16M for AI-Driven Decision Intelligence Platform
[Investing]
2022/10/26 09:06
Tellius, a Reston, VA-based provider of an AI-driven decision intelligence platform, raised $16M in Series B funding.The round, which brought total fundraising to $33m to date, was led by Baird Capital with participation from Sands Capital Ventures, Grotech Ventures, and Veraz Investments.The company intends to use the funds to enhance its platform, expand go-to-market capabilities, and support...
Come Dine With Meal Kits
[Design]
2022/10/26 09:05
Most people know the feeling of standing in the supermarket, completely bereft of ideas for what they could make for dinner that night. Recognizing this universal problem and filling the gap in the market (and people's brains), the emergence of companies selling meal kits has really grown since around 2007/2008 when two Swedish companies started providing the service. It wasn't until 2012 that...
&Walsh Uses AI to Create Branding for Nuclear Energy Advocate
[Design]
2022/10/26 09:04
American creative agency &Walsh has created the branding for the website of nuclear energy advocate Isodope using AI image generator DALL-E 2.Before creating the branding, New York-based &Walsh had been experimenting with OpenAI's DALL-E 2 platform to see if it could be useful for coming up with brand imagery."We used AI to generate many of the case study images, iconography, art direct...
A Winner of The Red Dot Design Concept Award 2022 - The Gaming Flex
[Design]
2022/10/26 09:03
The Red Dot Design Concept Award-winning case for the Galaxy Z Flip4 takes the folding phone and turns it into the world’s first gaming foldable. Cleverly designed with joysticks and controls that tuck within each other when folded, this Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 accessory still lets you use the phone as is, retaining all its smartphone functionality, albeit with a rather sizeable gaming upgrade!...
(PDF) Capgemini - Moving Towards Sustainable Product Design
[Business]
2022/10/25 09:10
With an overriding focus on “user-centricity,” modern product design may have made sense in a purely commercially driven business framework, but it can have negative consequences further down the line – both for other stakeholders and for the environment.For example, an estimated 80 percent of environmental impacts associated with products result from design decisions. As such, sustainable p...
TuMeke Closes $2.5M for A Computer Vision Platform
[Investing]
2022/10/25 09:09
TuMeke Ergonomics, a San Mateo, CA-based provider of a computer vision platform that automatically assesses injury risk in manufacturing facilities, raised $2.5M in Seed funding.The round was led by GSR Ventures, with participation from OVO Fund, OneValley Ventures, Reach Ventures, Pirque Ventures, and Metagrove Ventures.The company intends to use the funds to enhance its models to account for...
(Paper) Brand Values and Long-run Stock Returns
[Investing]
2022/10/25 09:07
It’s been a tough year for consumer and technology companies this year. Rising inflation and the cost-of-living crisis have put many consumer companies under severe pressure while rising interest rates have led to a significant decline in corporate valuations particularly in technology and other growth sectors.One key to success in 2022 was to focus on companies with “pricing power” and the...
Foldable, Portable Barbecue Device Looks Good Enough to Cook On
[Design]
2022/10/25 09:07
Now that most people are already out there going on all sorts of adventures in the outdoors, we’re also seeing new products, or at least concepts of products that can be used for these trips. Picnicking, biking, trekking, and camping are just some of the outdoor activities that people like to do on the weekends after a grueling week in the concrete jungle. So they’re always on the look out fo...
How a Stealth Startup’s $100 Genome Could Change How We Diagnose Cancer - Ultima Genomics
[Tech]
2022/10/25 09:06
Low-cost genome sequencing could have wide applications in medical research, drug development, and personalized treatment of disease.After six years in stealth mode, U.S.-Israeli startup Ultima emerged this summer with the announcement of $600 million in venture funding from General Atlantic, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures, the Founders Fund, and others—and the even more head...
(Infographic) TikTok Shares Insights Into the Potential of Live-Streaming for Brands
[Business]
2022/10/25 09:05
Could live-streaming on TikTok be of benefit for your brand? Live-streaming is a huge part of TikTok’s Chinese version (Douyin), with billions being spent on TikTok live-stream commerce every year in the region.But thus far, western audiences haven’t been as receptive. Yet.TikTok is still working through its live-stream commerce integration, and it remains confident that it will catch on with...
Burberry and Minecraft Launch In-Game & Physical Collection
[Business]
2022/10/25 09:04
Burberry and Minecraft announced that they would be coming together on a multilayered project, starting with a customized in-game adventure titled Burberry: Freedom to Go Beyond. In addition to the program, the two brands also unveiled a clothing capsule collection that would also be available as part of the collaborative venture. Since news hit headlines, both fashion and gaming aficionados ha...
