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Re-Pill is an Analog Clock with Dispensers to Help Medication Schedules
[Design]
2022/08/17 08:03
For those that take a lot of pills and medicine every day for maintenance of various diseases and conditions, having a system that will remind you to take them regularly is important. Some use apps, others are more analog with their planners and calendars, while some may need the help of other people to remind them. But those that may have some brain-related injuries like TBI or Traumatic Brain...
Apple's Growth Strategy Map
[Business]
2022/08/16 09:10
We mined Apple's acquisitions, investments, and partnerships to discern the company's emerging strategic priorities.Apple is looking for the next big thing.As the world’s most valuable company, with a $2T+ market cap and over $100B in annual profit, Apple has long been known for its cell phones, laptops, tablets, and watches. Today, the company is investing aggressively in high-tech areas like...
Heineken Launches Beer-Injected Sneakers
[Product]
2022/08/16 09:09
Heineken has teamed up with Dominic “The Shoe Surgeon” Ciambrone to launch Heinekicks, shoes with beer-injected soles.Developed in conjunction with creative agencies BBH Singapore & Le Pub, each pair of Heinekicks features a sleek green lenticular upper with silver and red accents, and soles pumped full of Heineken Silver.A removable metal bottle opener is also built into the tongue of th...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Decarbonizing Grocery
[Business]
2022/08/16 09:08
Here’s how the grocery sector can protect the planet and position itself for green growth.Thinking about cutting back on carbs? Some people swear by it; others see it as just another food fad. By contrast, cutting back on carbon emissions is a universal mission that everyone in the global food system can rally behind. Unless people reduce CO2, methane, and other greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions,...
Delta's Futuristic New Airport Screen 'Parallel Reality' Can Show Personalized Flight Info
[Tech]
2022/08/16 09:07
A futuristic new screen can show dozens of travelers their flight individual information at once. Called Parallel Reality, the screen can display personalized information to 100 people simultaneously.It's time to ditch the crumpled boarding passes and stop staring at thousands of flights on a board, because Delta just science-fictionalized the airport experience. Through a partnership with Cali...
Apple Finds Its Next Big Business : Showing Ads on Your iPhone
[Business]
2022/08/16 09:06
Apple is set to expand ads to new areas of your iPhone and iPad in search of its next big revenue driver. Also: The company slows its pace of acquiring startups, and Peloton embarks on a major overhaul.The StartersApp Tracking Transparency pop-up message. Source: AppleBefore even talking about how Apple Inc. could expand its advertising business, I need to address the elephant in the room: how...
The Big Tech Big Freeze
[Investing]
2022/08/16 09:05
Big tech has been on a hiring spree for more than a decade, but things are changing.The big tech big freezeYesterday Google announced a hiring freeze, with the search engine giant putting a pause on all hiring for 2 weeks as the company reviews their "headcount needs".That announcement adds Google's name to the growing list of tech companies that have announced hiring freezes or slowdowns. Earl...
Virtual Windows Mimic Natural Light and Sky Views - Sky Factory
[Product]
2022/08/16 09:04
Sky Factory's digital images create a sense of relaxation in indoor settings such as hospitals and offices. The windows play long-form nature footage that helps improve wellbeing.Contact with nature is an important aspect of general wellbeing, yet can be difficult to fit into everyday life. And for people who work and study in windowless rooms, vision breaks that include views of nature are eve...
BIG Designing Ground to Air Driverless Vehicle for American Desert City Telosa
[Design]
2022/08/16 09:03
Danish architecture studio BIG is designing a road, air and hyperloop-capable autonomous vehicle for the new US city of Telosa currently being planned for five million people in an unconfirmed desert location.The Ground to Air, or G2A, would constitute a rhomboid passenger pod that can attach to a set of wheels to become a car, rotor blades to become a helicopter, rails to form an elevated trai...
(PDF) Deloitte - Global Automotive Consumer Study
[Consumer]
2022/08/15 09:10
Tracking key trends in the automotive industry.What consumer trends and disruptive technologies will have the most impact on the automotive industry in the year ahead? Explore the data and insights from the 13th year of Deloitte’s Global Automotive Consumer Study, and discover how more than 26,000 consumers from 25 countries are feeling about advanced technologies, electric vehicles, the purch...
(Patent) Ford Patents App to Warn Pedestrians, Cyclists of Autonomous Vehicles
[Tech]
2022/08/15 09:09
Ford has lodged a patent for an app for pedestrians and cyclists that will tell them if an autonomous vehicle will stop for them.Many pedestrians and cyclists look at their phones on the go, so Ford has filed a patent for a phone app that will warn them of a new danger: autonomous vehicles.First seen on Jalopnik, the Blue Oval filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in...
Brick by Brick: LEGO's Growing Toy Empire
[Business]
2022/08/15 09:08
90 years ago, on August 10, 1932, a Danish carpenter named Ole Kirk Kristiansen started a company making wooden toys. Renamed LEGO (a combination of the Danish words “Leg Godt”, i.e. “Play Well”) in 1935, the company soon started grappling with plastic bricks, laying the groundwork for the toy company we all know today.In 1958, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Ole's son, submitted a patent appli...
