The Mariah Carey Business Model
How to be a pop star without new hits or successful tours.If you took inventory of Mariah Carey’s recent projects, you might conclude she’s despe...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Grow Fast or Die Slow : Pivoting Beyond the Core
Turbocharged initial growth is essential to surviving in the software industry. But what comes next? Here are four lessons so leaders can write the...
Mormedi's e-Cigarette is Designed as a Personal Accessory
Product design consultancy Mormedi has created an electronic cigarette, which they hope will become like a "personal accessory similar to a pen" fo...
(Video) UC Berkeley - Smart Bandage Detects Invisible Wounds
Engineers at UC Berkeley are developing a bandage that uses electrical currents to identify early tissue damage from bedsores.A smart bandage that...
Zirx Parks $30M to Build a Fleet of Valets
San Francisco-based startup Zirx is looking to fulfill this desire for an increasing number of frustrated car owners, fueled by its announcement to...
Italian Company Hopes to Market Synthetic Eyeballs
Italian research studio Mhox's EYE concept could see a future where people replace their natural eyes with technologically-enhanced bioprinted ones...
(PDF) US Digital Ad Spend Hits New $49.5 Billion High In 2014
Digital advertising spend set a new record in 2014, according to the latest figures from the Internet Ad Bureau, rising to $49.5 billion in spend....
Volvo Axes the Passenger Seat to Boost Backseat Legroom
The Volvo XC90 Lounge Concept removes the front passenger seat in favor of a multipurpose ottoman/storage/television/work tray. IT’S A TOUGH time...
Debt Piles Up in Asia, Threatening Growth
Countries borrowed a lot during the crisis, and kept doing so afterward.Asian countries borrowed heavily to maintain growth during the financial cr...
Next-Gen Condoms Will Be Self-Lubricating, Biodegradable, and Skin-...
Researchers at University of Wollongong are working on a more pleasurable-feeling condom made out of the stuff associated with contact lenses.After...
(Video) MIT's NailO Turns Thumbnail into Trackpad - NailO
A new wearable sensor can turns a person's thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad, researchers at the MIT Media Lab say.The device, called N...
25-Year-Old Made $66,000 In A Month By Teaching An Online Course
When the iPhone started taking over the US in 2008, Nick Walter was in Japan doing Mormon missionary work without a smartphone."When I got home, my...
(Video) Cocoon-Like Desk Helps You Concentrate On Work - Brody Wor...
If you find yourself in an unproductive slump due to your open office, here is a cocoon-like space that might be of interest to you. Furniture desi...
(Infographic) 10 Most Valuable Startups Launched By Students
The graphic below tells about the greatest and the most valuable businesses that were launched by students. Did you know that such popular companie...
(PDF) Revolution in the Driver’s Seat : The Road to Autonomous Veh...
It is no longer a question of if but when autonomous vehicles (AVs) will hit the road. In the auto industry’s most significant inflection in 100 y...
Design Crossover : Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian is undeniably one of the great designers who’s work has crossed over into multiple disciplines of design, specifically his artwork C...
(Video) Automated Kitchen Features Robot Chef - Moley
It may sound like the stuff of futuristic science fiction, but a high-tech kitchen featuring a robot is set to become a commercial reality. The Aut...
Toyota's Making Airline Seats That Can Adjust to Any Body Type
ANA and Toyota Boshoku develops passenger aircraft seats for comfort across a wide range of body sizesAll Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s only 5-sta...
(PDF) Piper Jaffray : Taking Stock With Teens - Spring 2015
Teens in this spring’s survey exhibited stronger views of economic improvement with females slightly less optimistic than their male counterparts....
(M&A) Cirque du Soleil to be Sold for about $1.5 Billion
Founder Guy Lalibert? to sell majority control of the Canadian performance company to private equity firm TPG Capital LP and Fosun Capital Group, r...
(Video) Patch Adds the “Smart” to Any “Dumb” Watch - Digitock
A retrofitting Digitock attachment will update any existing watch into a connected one.Digitock is a patch that will stick to the backside of a wat...
Ikea's Futuristic Concept Kitchen Is Designed for Drought and Scarcity
More than any other room in your house, the kitchen has changed radically in the past 100 years. And according to Ikea, it’s going to change even...
(Video) BMW's 7 Series Lets You Park by Remote Control
If you're looking at a BMW's deluxe 7 Series, the 2016 model will awe your yacht club pals with some Bond-worthy gadgets. The remote control parkin...
(PDF) Beating the Best : 8 Characteristics of Winners in the Shale...
Over the past 10 to 15 years, many energy companies, including nearly all of the majors and numerous independents, have tried to jump on the “shal...
Temperature-Regulating Fabric Moves to the Runway - HotSquash
HotSquash offers fashion-forward, high-tech clothing line that takes on high and low temps.Temperature regulating clothing isn’t exactly new?it’s...
(Infographic) The Landscape of Customer Identity
Facebook continues to dominate the social media login market. Nearly two-thirds of people who use social networks to authenticate their identities...
Simple Sample : Federal Grant Advances Pain-Free Blood Tests
A company with deep roots at UW-Madison wants to make blood sampling less painful and more convenient. Tasso Inc. is perfecting a device the size o...
The Astonishing Comeback, and Undeniable Insignificance, of Vinyl
From east London, to Brooklyn, to Tokyo and far beyond, thousands of music enthusiasts flocked to record stores around the world on April 18 to buy...
Native Advertising Measurement Is All Over The Map
So-called native advertising is the shiny new object in digital media. Publishers love selling it, and marketers are increasing their investments i...
(Infographic) What’s In The Air We Breathe?
More than you eat, more than you drink, more than you do anything else in your life, you breathe. It’s the one thing, other than maybe your heartb...
(PDF) Disney Research Develops New Fabric 3D Printer
A new paper from Disney Research, “A Layered Fabric 3D Printer for Soft Interactive Objects-Paper,” penned by Huaishu Peng (of Disney Research Pi...
Mckinsey - Will China Get Fat Before It Gets Rich ?
The rising wave of obesity around the world and its health and economic costs cannot be ignored?even in China. This is no longer a “western” prob...