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The James Dyson Award 2021 Global Winners – HOPES (Home Eye Pressure E-skin Sensor)
[Design]
2021/11/20 10:09
Home Eye Pressure E-skin Sensor (HOPES) is a wearable biomedical device for pain-free, low cost, at-home intraocular pressure (IOP) testing for patients suffering from glaucoma.“It turns out that IOP is the clinician’s single metric to assess glaucoma”, mentioned the designers behind HOPES, who were motivated after one of the team members’ fathers was diagnosed with glaucoma back in 2019. R...
Nike Jumps Into Metaverse With Virtual World on Roblox Platform
[Business]
2021/11/20 10:08
The sportswear giant is partnering with video-game platform Roblox on Nikeland, a free-to-play virtual world with games like dodgeball and floor-is-lava, it said Thursday in a statement. It’s designed after the real-life Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.Players will be able to outfit their characters in digital versions of Nike products like Air Max sneakers. The Nikeland website is prom...
Starbucks Has Launched a Cafe in NYC That Uses Amazon's Cashierless Payment System
[Product]
2021/11/20 10:07
Starbucks is combining its online order system with Amazon's Just Walk Out tech to help cut down any remaining human interaction when buying coffee and snacks.As part of its plan to elbow its way into every corner of commerce, Amazon has now partnered with Starbucks to open a new cashierless cafe in New York City. With around 30,000 locations, the coffee franchise represents an opportunity for...
(Infographic) The 2021 State of the Octoverse
[Consumer]
2021/11/20 10:06
Every year, The State of the Octoverse analyzes data from millions of developers and repositories to share trends across working habits, productivity, and overall career satisfaction. This year we’re excited to share the patterns we’ve seen across the community as well as three deeper dives on shipping code, creating documentation, and sustaining communities.We’ve also extended our research...
Facebook’s Freaky New Glove for the Metaverse
[Tech]
2021/11/20 10:05
Reality Labs is working on clothing that helps you feel things in the metaverse.On Tuesday afternoon, Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, made a supposedly exciting announcement: a glove. But not just any glove. It’s a haptic glove lined with tiny motors that use bursts of air to mimic the sense of touch, and it looks like a wearable nightmare.There’s nothing necessarily wrong with...
AI-Powered Marketing Copy Generator Anyword Secures $21M
[Investing]
2021/11/20 10:04
Anyword, an AI-powered platform for fine-tuning marketing copy, today announced that it raised $21 million in a financing round led by Innovation Endeavors with participation from Lead Capital and Gandyr Ventures. CEO Yaniv Makover says that the proceeds, which bring the company’s total raised to $30 million, will be used to bolster hiring, build out Anyword’s technology, and onboarding custo...
This is Why All Electric Cars Look Exactly the Same
[Product]
2021/11/20 10:03
We’re approaching a future where car drive platforms will be white-label goods from Foxconn-like suppliers. Differentiation will be much harder.The future of car design is all about skateboards and top hats. The former refers to the flat, often self-supporting chassis of an electric vehicle, housing a large battery pack in the middle and motors at either end, along with the suspension, brakes...
(PDF) The Economics of Robotaxis
[Business]
2021/11/18 09:10
‘Robotaxis will be disruptive to conventional taxis and ride-hailing, but not car ownership’, says new reportRobotaxis remain one of the most pursued applications for autonomous vehicle technologies today, with many developers envisioning an end to – or at least a significant reduction in – car ownership.Developers of autonomous vehicles, specifically those focused on Level-4 self-driving v...
Morgan Stanley - Luxury NFT Represent a 50 Billion-Euro Opportunity
[Business]
2021/11/18 09:09
Analysts at Morgan Stanley say there’s scope for luxury goods makers to sell virtually as they do physically — and say the market could be as large as €50 billion, or $57 billion at current exchange rates, by 2030. That could lift revenue by more than 10%, and industry earnings before interest and tax by 25%.Analysts led by Edward Stanley point out that one in five gamers in Roblox change th...
