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This Toilet Patent Makes Workers Uncomfortable Taking Long Bathroom Breaks
[Product]
2022/06/23 09:07
This toilet is slopped 13 degrees forward, so you can't sit on it for more than 5 minutes.Everyone knows how it feels to take a long bathroom break at work. The ones that last for 20 minutes or maybe longer, and if someone asks, well, you had spicy food for lunch.But it's actually a time for employees to relax, free their minds, maybe go through their phones, maybe play Candy Crush... It seems...
Wingcopter Raises Another $42M Ahead of Ambitious Africa Deployment
[Investing]
2022/06/23 09:05
In mid-May, Wingcopter announced an extremely ambitious plan to deploy some 12,000 of its fixed-wing UAVs in Sub-Saharan Africa over the next half decade. As far as drone delivery markets go, it certainly makes sense, targeting users in remote areas that can often be hard to reach due to infrastructural issues.Such a project will take a lot of resources, of course, but thankfully, the German st...
Money, Not Covid, Is the Biggest Travel Hurdle This Summer
[Consumer]
2022/06/23 09:05
After two years of Covid-related restrictions and inhibitions, travelers are ready to hit the beaches in masses this summer.That is if they can still afford it. With everyday purchases like food, gas and utilities having become much more expensive over the past few months, many families are forced to to reconsider their holiday plans, if not to scrap them altogether.According to an internationa...
Park Habitat, Kengo Kuma’s New Green Building in Silicon Valley
[Design]
2022/06/23 09:04
Construction has begun on Park Habitat, a plant-covered building in Silicon Valley that was designed by Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates with a green atrium at its centre.PThe 20-storey building will have a glass and wood facade covered with vines and planters and will be located in downtown San Jose in the middle of Silicon Valley, California.Kengo Kuma has designed a plant-covered bu...
Spinning Bike Concept Brings More Approachable Look for Home Use
[Design]
2022/06/23 09:03
While it’s probably healthier and better for you if you ride an actual bike outside, there are times and situations when that is not possible (like, in my case, if you don’t know how to ride a bike). A favorite exercise routine for a lot of people is going spinning on their indoor exercise bikes. For beginners though, it can look challenging getting on those machines especially if the bike ha...
(Patent) IBM Aims to Patent a Piezoelectric Device for Powering a Smart Contact Lens
[Tech]
2022/06/22 09:10
U.S. patent application, US20220171218, discloses a piezoelectric device for powering smart contact lenses using eyelid movement. The piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric film attached to an eyelid, a smart contact lens in an eye, and an antenna surrounding the eye. The piezoelectric film generates electrical energy from the eyelid movement during the blinking of the eye and the smart...
(PDF) Mckinsey - What are The Biotech Investment Themes That will Shape the Industry ?
[Investing]
2022/06/22 09:09
From 2019 to 2021, venture capitalists plowed $35 billion into biotech companies with advanced platform technologies that could transform the industry.The past three years have seen a boom in venture capital (VC) funding in the biotechnology sector. Our research shows that VC companies invested in 2,200 biotech start-ups worldwide in 2016; by 2021, that number had grown to 3,100.1 We also found...
(Paper) A Smart Jumpsuit Tracks Infants’ Motor Development
[Tech]
2022/06/22 09:08
The MAIJU (pictured) can identify postures such as lying supine, lying prone, crawling, sitting and standing, along with various movements within each posture.One of the best ways of tracking an infant's neurological development is to observe their movements as they play. A new "smart" jumpsuit is designed to do so automatically, providing consistently accurate data via machine learning technol...
Inflation Is Americans' Top Concern
[Consumer]
2022/06/22 09:07
As inflation creeped up to the highest level in more than 40 years in recent months, the issue of rising costs of living has also climbed to the top of Americans’ mind. According to results from Statista’s Global Consumer Survey, 44 percent of U.S. adults now think that inflation is among the most pressing issues that need to be addressed in their country, displacing issues like immigration a...
