With Real Time, Baas combines theatre, art, film and design in a series of new clock designs. Real Time was launched in April 2009 at the Salone Del Mobile in Milan (IT). He first presented the Sweepers clock, Analog Digital and the Grandfather clock. Since then, Real Time has expanded from a Grandmother clock and a Self Portrait clock, to an iPhone app and special commissions, such as the Schi...

I can say with a great degree of confidence that every single company that’s made (and sold) a folding phone is absolutely shooting in the dark. They have no intention of abandoning their regular phones for foldables, but are purely engaging in a ‘display of innovation’ to show who’s doing folding hardware better. The fundamental problem still remains – do we even need folding phones? What...

Sharing is caring. And according to Meta, that counts for social media, too. The company wants to patent a system for “collaborative stories.” As the name implies, this tech allows users to add multiple other users to be collaborators on a shared story, enabling anyone invited to share photos and videos to it. These story posts are viewable to anyone that follows any of the accounts that are...

A gradually evolving industry now faces nonlinear competition and technological shifts. Here are two key scenarios for the future.Over the past few decades, industrial automation has evolved gradually, with few changes in market structure. But the pace of change is accelerating, thanks to technology disruptions and macrotrends such as reshoring, a global skilled labor shortage, and environmenta...

Moncler inaugurates its venture into 3D printing by collaborating with Zellerfeld to fashion a 3D-printed version of its Trailgrip sneakers using only recyclable mono-material. The single-thread ingredient that constructed the shoes is a decision from Moncler as part of its commitment to eco-consciousness and a signature design ethos of Zellerfeld. Zellerfeld creates washable 3D-printed shoes t...

Enabled by foundation models, companies across industries are rapidly adopting generative AI.Infographic : https://bit.ly/46t4ndv[bain]

On the heels of Inflection AI landing a $1.3 billion investment, Runway, a startup building generative AI tools for multimedia content creators, today announced a $141 million extension to its Series C round from Google, Nvidia and Salesforce, among others.Building on the Series C the company announced in December, Runway says that the new capital will be used to scale its in-house research eff...

Despite banking jitters, stubbornly high inflation and lingering recession fears, the U.S. stock market rebounded in the first half of 2023, recovering some of the losses incurred in the 2022 market rout. Having been the main driver behind last year’s downturn, the tech sector returned to its more familiar role as market motor this year. Fueled by excitement over the potential of AI, companies...

Researchers have embedded a device into the handle of a supermarket cart that monitors for a common heart rhythm disturbance.We could soon be checking our heart rhythm while doing the grocery shopping, thanks to a device incorporated into the handle of a supermarket cart designed to monitor for atrial fibrillation, a common heart arrhythmia that’s a key risk factor for stroke.During atrial fib...