Hedgehog-Inspired Full-Body Airbag Would Inflate Into a Personal Sa...
In this rendering, the i Gel protects someone falling off a building by pushing him into a ball and inflating airbags all around him.Last week's We...
Apple Just Became the First $700 Billion Company. Ever.
It’s never been done before. Apple’s share climbed 1.9% to close at $122.02, making it the first company to finish a day of trading at a market v...
'From Atoms to Bits': A Brilliant Visual History of American Ideas
One night in the the spring of 1983, the scientist Kary Mullis was driving with his girlfriend along Highway 128 from Berkeley to Mendocino, Califo...
Verdant - The Eco Refrigerator Concept
When buying a fridge, most folks look for one with increased storage space and at the same time it should be efficient enough to reduce energy cost...
ScreenPop, Backed By $3.2M, Lets You Message Friends From Your Phon...
Locket, the makers of a mobile application that brings personalized news and other stories to your Android phone’s lockscreen is out today with a...
(Infographic) Sensors Shifting Sports
Sensor technologies are helping build a new league of athlete. As part of the Internet of Things, these tiny communicating devices are making sport...
Apple Took Home 93% of Mobile Profits Last Quarter
Samsung had 9%. Microsoft lost money. The rest were lucky to break even. How did Apple, with 20% of the global smartphone market last quarter, mana...
(PDF) China’s iConsumer 2015 : A Growing Appetite for Change
Chinese e-commerce is developing even faster than previously believed, with Chinese iConsumers embracing online commerce and major retailers rushin...
Why Chinese Moms Want American Babies
For many pregnant women, a pre-birth checklist might look like this: assemble the crib, buy extra bibs, pack essentials for the hospital. But for a...
Advanced Additive Manufacturing Could Enable Planes That are 50% Mo...
Pratt and Whitney is exploring making airplane engines with fewer parts using additive manufacturing (aka advanced 3D printing).Those parts would n...
(Video) "Spot" Is a Smaller (More Kickable) Version of Boston Dynam...
We haven't seen much of Boston Dynamic's four-legged self-balancing Big Dog robot since it was last spotted hurling cinder blocks in a lab. And tha...
The 25 Most Elite Boarding Schools in America
From regal campuses to touted alumni, many boarding schools exude prestige.We recently published a list of the most elite boarding schools in the U...
Instagram Tattoos Encourage Wearable Photo Sharing
Netherlands-based photo printing service Picattoos offers to print temporary tattoos of users’ favourite Instagram snaps.With Instagram surpassing...
IKEarchitects Forms Indoor Exhibition Space with 20,000 Fabric Strips
Under the skylight at lisbon’s colombo shopping mall, LIKEarchitects have constructed a temporary exhibition space to hold artist jen lewin‘s int...
(PDF) Brookings Report : America’s Advanced Industries
The need for economic renewal in the United States remains urgent. Years of disappointing job growth and stagnant incomes for the majority of worke...
(Video) Quinny Longboard Stroller Might be the Most Exciting Way to...
Move over, boring strollers, and make way for a hip new option for urban mobility with children: The Quinny Longboardstroller.As a parent, I have a...
Huge VC Investments Into Uber, Airbnb Stifle Competition
The jackpot-sized venture capital investments last year reveal a few things about Silicon Valley's tech scene: Uber's IPO seems imminent, investors...
Technology May Not Replace Human Translators, But It Will Help Them...
TALK into your phone in any of the big European languages and a Google app can now turn your words into a foreign language, either in text form or...
GE Mixes Lasers and Water to Keep Turbine Blades Cool During Drilling
GE's new Laser MicroJet drilling holes in high-pressure turbine blades.Turbine blades for use in jet engines need to be made of a hard, unyielding...
The Chart That Shows Why ‘Facebook at Work’ Might Actually Work
Facebook is testing a new product for the workplace, Facebook at Work?basically a second Facebook that you can only use with coworkers. It’s desig...
Tiny Medical Implant Makes You Cry to Defeat Dry Eye
Making people cry is not a very nice thing to do, unless those people suffer from chronic eyeball dryness.Then you’re doing them a favor. Scientis...
Goetz Schrader Envisions Sustainable Living on Wind Pecker Machines
‘Wind Pecker’ is a project by german designer goetz schrader that envisions the concept of inhabiting wind turbine parks. the design arose out of...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Strategic Choices for Banks in the Digital Age
Consumers around the world are quickly adopting digital banking. Incumbents only have a short period to adjust to this new reality or risk becoming...
(Video) McDonald's Behavioral Economics: Random Rewards Work Better
Super Bowl Advertisers Score with Ads that Tap Into How Consumers' Brains Work.Nowhere is the phrase Monday morning quarterback more on point than...
(Infographic) The Salesforce Economy
Salesforce is a global powerhouse. This infographic displays the Salesforce economy, including the company’s growth, global reach, timeline and mo...
Smartphone Dongle Detects HIV and Syphilis Markers in 15 Minutes
Scientists have developed a smartphone accessory capable of detecting multiple disease markers within 15 minutes.That smartphones have evolved to b...
The Tablet Hype Has Officially Died Down
The tablet hype is officially over. In the fourth quarter of 2014, worldwide tablet shipments declined for the first time since Apple introduced th...
Picsart, a Mobile Photo Editing App Has Closed $10M in Funding from...
This is the first outside investment that Picsart has taken, having bootstrapped itself to profitability after being founded in Armenia, an Eastern...
Bend It Like Sammy
The Samsung BEND is a tablet concept that integrates various existing experimental screen technologies like flexible touchscreens and more. “The B...
(Infographic) Death of the Password
In 2004 Bill Gates predicted the death of the password. It now feels that we’re moving closer to seeing Gates’ prediction come to fruition, but w...
The Best Industries for Starting a Business in 2015
These eight sectors are hotbeds of opportunity for entrepreneurs with the foresight and motivation to take advantage.The old adage that timing is e...
300 Mobile Payment and Digital Banking Trends
As banks and credit unions begin strategic planning for 2015, it is helpful to have statistics to help form a view of current market trends. No pla...