Although designed for urban setups, the Medicine Delivery Drone’s main focus is on urban residents who cannot step out on their own to buy medicines. The drone, designed specifically for carrying pills, can travel between a pharmacy and a residence, dropping off life-saving medicines without any effort on the part of the patient.The drone was designed as a response to the strict Zero Covid pol...

Food loss or waste continues to be a major problem across the lifecycle of food. It beggars belief that while around 870 million people around the planet are undernourished, almost 2.5 billion tons of food produce goes uneaten annually. Furthermore, food waste is a significant emitter of greenhouse gases, generating 8-10% of global emissions.In our newest Capgemini Research Institute report, Re...

Today we're covering a fourth patent that relates to electronic devices, and more particularly, to flexible electronic devices like fabric VR Gloves, Apple Watch Band or parts of a future HMD that integrates a flexible light guide system. The lights could form buttons that user's could tap for input and more. Apple's patent covers an electronic device such as a wearable device that may integrat...

There are a number of startups working to improve trash sorting with robots. AMP Robotics is near the top of the list, coupling a picker and a conveyor belt to sort materials in large, automated facilities. The technology aims to correct human shortcomings when it comes to recycling. Too often people either don’t bother to separate trash, or simply don’t understand where things go.Founded in...

Headlines of slumping luxury watch resales figures are sending fears of a sharp China market downturn. Is it scaremongering or just an adjustment? Fueled by the rise of social media and e-commerce platforms eagerly promoting luxury watches, China’s pre-owned market has seen sought-after timepieces changing hands at sky high prices in recent years. In the six months leading up to Shanghai’s mo...

As gyms were forced to shut down when the Covid-19 pandemic hit in March 2020 and remained deserted for large parts of 2020 and 2021, Americans were forced to look for alternative ways to work out and stay active. And while many discovered cycling as a nice, socially-distanced activity amid lockdowns, others picked up their old tennis rackets, hitting the outdoor courts across the country.Accor...

The device lets patients and doctors connect and share data at any time.During the COVID-19 pandemic patients and doctors faced a dilemma. Doctors were nervous about examining patients for fear of catching the disease, while that same fear dissuaded patients from visiting a clinic. Remote telemonitoring is an obvious way of circumventing the problem, but this solution has long been hampered by...

Targeting Novo Nordisk in China's obesity market with a unique proposition, LeaderMed eyes US IPOThe strained Sino-American relationship and China’s harsh drug price cuts have dampened interest in biotechs with Chinese ties. But Sanofi veteran Joanne Jiang, Ph.D., still hopes her new company, with a unique business proposition to tackle China’s metabolic disease market, will attract U.S. inve...

Not all apartments or condominium units have proper ventilation, especially in the kitchen (if there’s a kitchen at all). So during the pandemic when a lot of people were stuck in their places and were cooking inside these spaces, the air, smell, and cleaning all of that became a problem. There are now a lot of devices and gadgets that try to solve this issue for desktop cooking since a lot of...