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(PDF) The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work - Are We Ready ?
[Consumer]
2021/06/07 09:10
41% of workers globally are thinking about handing in their notice, according to a new Microsoft survey.- Junior members of the workforce, including Generation Z, are facing digital burnout.- A hybrid blend of in-person and remote work could help maintain a sense of balance – but bosses need to do more.- More than half of 18 to 25 year-olds in the workforce are considering quitting their job....
Fully Transparent Sky Pool Provides "A Swim Like No Other" Between 2 Housing Blocks
[Design]
2021/06/07 09:09
Architecture studio HAL has created a 35-metre-high transparent swimming pool bridge between two buildings at the Embassy Gardens development in Battersea, London.Named Sky Pool, the 25-metre-long swimming pool is made entirely from acrylic panels, allowing swimmers to look directly down to the ground 35 metres below.HAL designed the pool, described by the studio as the world's first, to be a s...
MIT's World-First Digital Fabric Can Collect, Store and Process Data
[Tech]
2021/06/07 09:08
MIT Engineers create a programmable fiber. In a first, the digital fiber contains memory, temperature sensors, and a trained neural network program for inferring physical activity.While the fabrics we wear today might keep us warm and protect us from the elements, scientists continue to demonstrate how they might soon do far more than that. MIT scientist Yoel Fink has been at the cutting edge o...
(Video) The Metaverse’s First Runway Show Is Here
[Business]
2021/06/07 09:07
The online metaverse and social networking site IMVU grew by 44% during the pandemic; it now attracts 7 million active users a month, most of them female or female-identifying and aged from 18 to 24.If you aren’t one of those millions, here’s a primer: On IMVU, users create personal avatars and dress them in clothes designed by fellow users—creators, in site parlance—bought with credits pai...
MedTech Synchron Raises $40M to Trial Neurotech That Helps Paralysis Patients Email
[Investing]
2021/06/07 09:06
Synchron’s Stentrode device is implanted into the jugular vein, through which it measures neurological signals to control wirelessly connected devices, allowing paralysis patients to communicate and perform daily tasks.After years of focusing on all things artificial intelligence, the buzziest buzz in medtech now centers not on robots and algorithms, but on the distinctly non-artificial abilit...
(PDF) Bain - The Future of European Grocery Retailing
[Business]
2021/06/07 09:05
Incumbents gained a four-year reprieve in the pandemic. Here’s how to use it.Grocery sales in Western Europe have risen to a level we only expected in 2025 after Covid-19 obliged many consumers to eat three meals a day at home.Grocers now have breathing space to reposition themselves strategically and retain their recent momentum, averting what could otherwise be a decade of profit erosion.Hyp...
GE Designs Massive Floating Turbine to Take Wind Energy Into Deep Water
[Tech]
2021/06/07 09:04
While offshore wind farms continue to play a growing part in the renewable energy mix, particularly in the US which recently approved its first major facility off the coast of Massachusetts, there remains a lot of untapped potential in the winds blowing across the world's oceans. GE is looking to unlock this potential through the development of massive wind turbines that can operate in deeper w...
These Bone-Conduction Headphones for the Hearing Impaired Lets Them Hear Music Fashionably
[Design]
2021/06/07 09:03
Cochlear implants help people with profound single-sided or bilateral hearing loss get the sense of sound but come with an impending downside. The implanted user is unable to enjoy any music since the implant distorts the musical signature. Any audio frequency will sound very different/distorted and, at times, even horrible. The distortion leads to a “sense of loss,” as per Dr. Ben Oliver, As...
(PDF) Bain - How Generation Z Is Making its Mark on Fashion
[Consumer]
2021/06/06 09:10
Brands need to listen to the non-binary thinking of consumers in their teens and early twenties, according to a report by Depop and Bain & Company.Growing up in an era of ubiquitous digital technology and an unmatched rate of change, Generation Z has developed an interconnected and fluid way of processing the world, rather than digesting it through a binary framework. The impact of this min...
