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(Video) Berlin Startup 'Made of Air' Has Developed a Bioplastic Made of Forest Waste
[Business]
2021/07/07 09:05
Berlin startup Made of Air has developed a bioplastic made of forest and farm waste that sequesters carbon and can be used for everything from furniture to building facades.The recyclable material is 90 per cent carbon and stores around two tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) for every tonne of plastic.By 2050, Made of Air hopes to be storing up to a gigatonne of CO2e a year in the mater...
Got a Pile of Random Lego ? This Amazing App Tells You What You Can Build
[Product]
2021/07/07 09:04
Lego is amazing. But if you or your kids are avid about building, you will inevitably end up with a big pile of bricks, shed from different sets. Sometimes that pile looks like the pure nuggets of creativity. Other times, it’s just a maddening reminder that you will never, ever get your life organized.The Brickit app, free on iOS, is a promising way to look at your bricks anew. While it was de...
(Video) An Origami-like Emergency Shelter Pod Folding Pods for Disaster Relief
[Design]
2021/07/07 09:03
The DISASTER RELIEF-FOLDING POD is an emergency shelter project, envisioned, designed, and now is being developed, led by a team at the firm of Hariri & Hariri Architecture D.P.C. in New York City.With a mission to “save human lives” and to create a technologically challenging, ecologically responsible & morally rewarding alternative shelter for the 21st Century. The FOLDING POD is de...
(PDF) Bain - China Shopper Report 2021 : Inside China's Subtle FMCG Recovery
[Consumer]
2021/07/06 09:10
This is the tenth consecutive year that we have tracked the shopping behaviors of Chinese consumers. Our continuing research has given us a valuable long-term view across 106 fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) categories purchased for home consumption in China. As in each of the past nine years, we analyzed the key 26 categories1 that span the four largest consumer goods sectors: packaged food,...
(Patent) Nestle Eyes a Patent for a Food Processing System
[Tech]
2021/07/06 09:09
U.S. patent application, 20210186068, discloses a food processing system, comprising a solid-state radio frequency cooking means that transmits an electromagnetic wave to a food substrate and a cavity where the food is cooked. The system monitors the return power losses, which are the difference between the power emitted by the solid-state radio frequency cooking means and the reflected power i...
Ghost Raises $100M Series D for Autonomous Driving and Crash Prevention Tech
[Investing]
2021/07/06 09:08
Autonomous driving system developer Ghost Locomotion has raised a $100 million Series D funding round, led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Returning investor Founders Fund also participated in the round, along with Coatue. The money will be used toward R&D as the company continues to develop its highway self-driving and crash prevention technology.Ghost has been working on a universal collision av...
Jeff Bezos Ends His Extraordinary Run in Charge of Amazon
[Business]
2021/07/06 09:07
IN JEFF BEZOS’S last annual letter to shareholders as chief executive of Amazon, published in March, he encouraged his company, other firms and people to pay attention to a basic fact of biology explained by Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist. That is, living things must work hard to be different from their environments just to stave off death. “The world wants you to be typical,” wr...
(Video) Harvard - Face Mask Detects SARS-CoV-2
[Tech]
2021/07/06 09:06
Researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute and MIT have developed a face mask that can detect SARS-CoV-2 in a wearer’s breath. The mask employs freeze dried molecular components including CRISPR-based technology, and a lateral flow assay strip to detect the virus and alert the wearer. To initiate the test, the wearer simply presses a button on the mask, and it can provide a result within 90 min...
Every Porsche Will Soon be Making Its Own Music - Soundtrack My Life
[Tech]
2021/07/06 09:05
Porsche Digital is creating an innovative music experience for drivers: adaptive sound that adjusts to driving style – and perhaps soon to the route and the mood of the person behind the wheel.We experience the future of entertainment for the first time in California, where a Porsche Macan is waiting at a set of Los Angeles traffic lights, the Walt Disney Concert Hall looming large ahead. This...
