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OPUS SoundBed Emotional Fitness Platform by Yves Behar
[Design]
2021/06/24 09:05
Partnered up with FuseProject founder, Yves Behar, OPUS just launched an emotion fitness platform that combines self-care practices with modern technology to empower you: SoundBed. It features patent-pending design that combines targeted and full-body vibration with spatial sound in order to create a more personalized experience through immersive SoundHealing technology. The sleek, modular devi...
Skybridge-Linked Toronto Towers will Create a Community in the Sky
[Design]
2021/06/24 09:04
Orca Toronto will consist of eight residential towers and an office tower. A series of skybridges will connect the residential towers.Skybridges aren't a new idea by any means, but rarely are they used as ambitiously as for the massive Orca Toronto project from Safdie Architects. The firm envisions a collection of nine new towers, most of which will be connected by skybridges to allow people to...
(Infographic) Mckinsey - Sweating for The Fitness Consumer
[Consumer]
2021/06/24 09:03
Fitness customers’ habits have evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering fitness-industry providers the opportunity to reexamine their value propositions and target specific segments.Fitness is a “Yes, and” industry. While other goods and services compete intensely for a finite number of consumer purchases, fitness consumers continue to use a widening array of services, tools, and solut...
Night Golf Is Taking Over South Korea
[Business]
2021/06/24 00:10
South Korea is the third-largest market for golf in the world, behind only the United States and Japan. “White night” golf is a nocturnal sports phenomenon that reflects the still surging popularity of the sport and the lengths some will go in order to nab a tee time.City lights shimmer in the distance. Shadows splay in every direction on glowing green grass. It’s close to midnight, the moon...
(Infographic) How Media Consumption Evolved Throughout COVID-19
[Consumer]
2021/06/24 00:09
Media consumption spiked in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak as Americans actively sought information and entertainment while at home. Whether this changed over the course of 2020 remains unclear, however.To dive deeper into the issue, this infographic from the Knight Foundation explores each generation’s shifts in media consumption habits as the pandemic wore on.Further below, we’ll a...
Tractable Raises $60M at a $1B Valuation to Make Damage Appraisals Using AI
[Investing]
2021/06/24 00:08
Tractable, which works with automotive insurance companies to let users take and submit photos of damaged cars that are then “read” to make appraisals, has raised $60 million, a Series D that values Tractable at $1 billion, the company said.As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals...
(PDF) Deloitte - CXOs and 5G Edge Networks
[Business]
2021/06/24 00:07
Investing today for tomorrow’s competitive advantage.As demand for more powerful networking and digital capabilities grows, 5G edge computing technologies can offer organizations the capabilities needed to unleash the next phases of innovation, efficiency, and agility. But organizations should act now to reap the benefits.For C-suite leaders (CXOs), historic possibilities driven by digital inn...
(Paper) Drinking Straw Device is Instant Cure for Hiccups - Hiccaway
[Product]
2021/06/24 00:06
Sipping water through an L-shaped ‘suction and swallow tool’ cured 92% of attacks, according to study.From holding your breath to having a friend shout “boo!”, there is no shortage of alleged cures for hiccups. Now scientists say they have found a better solution: a drinking straw device.When you get hiccups – or singultus as they are known in medicine – the diaphragm and intercostal musc...
Some Pandemic Hobbies Stuck Around Longer Than Others
[Consumer]
2021/06/24 00:05
This week British bicycle retailer Halfords warned that it expected the "global bike shortage" to continue, as the surge in demand for bikes during the pandemic has lingered into the end of 2020 and the start of 2021.The bike boom is an example of a hobby that exploded during the pandemic — and has actually had some staying power. Google searches for "bike for sale" have come down from their p...
