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World’s First ‘Virtual Door’ Connects Lublin to Lithuanian Capital Vilnius in Real Time
[Product]
2021/06/01 09:06
By bringing strangers in two completely different countries together, the organizers hope a bridge will be built between people who would otherwise never meet.Though 600 kilometres apart, a ‘virtual door’ has been unveiled connecting the cities of Lublin and Vilnius together – the first such project anywhere in the world.Seeking to foster a sense of global unity, the portal was unveiled on L...
Why The Food-Delivery Boom May Soon Hit the Skids
[Business]
2021/06/01 09:05
Hint : restaurants are reopeningTHE CLOSURE of shops and imposition of mandatory lockdowns at the onset of the covid-19 pandemic last year emptied cities of commuters and consumers. Mornings were greeted by peaceful birdsong and nights were abuzz with a new breed of urban explorer: an army of bicycle and scooter couriers delivering take-away meals.Sales for the app-makers that connect these dri...
This High-Design Air Conditioner is Powerful and Efficient - Windmill AC
[Product]
2021/06/01 09:04
Windmill’s window air conditioner has more in common with Apple’s HomePods than the hulking ACs of yore. Even Room Rater would approve.Windmill wants to solve one of summer’s most intractable problems: the blight of ugly air conditioners. The New York-based startup launched in 2020 with a 10,000-person waitlist for its $395 smart AC, a sleek window unit that has more in common, design-wise,...
Wind-Powered Street Lamps Reduce Light Pollution in Germany - Papilio
[Design]
2021/06/01 09:03
The motion-activated design uses wind to power its turbines and has an extra-warm, insect-friendly colour temperature.German design student Tobias Trübenbacher, from the University of the Arts Berlin, has developed a lamp post that only illuminates when necessary. The lamp also includes an integrated wind turbine that produces its own renewable energy.The lamp, named Papilio, was designed to r...
(PDF) PwC - 3rd Annual Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report 2021
[Investing]
2021/06/01 00:10
This year, AIMA was invited to partner with PwC and Elwood Asset Management on their 3rd annual crypto hedge fund report to provide insights into the rising interest in the digital assets industry from the perspective of non-crypto focused hedge funds (referred to as ‘Traditional’ hedge funds in this report).AIMA’s chapter within this report looks at whether “traditional” hedge funds have...
(Patent) Intel Eyes a Patent for Virtual Wearables
[Tech]
2021/06/01 00:09
U.S. patent application, US20210157149, discloses a mechanism for dynamically facilitating virtual wearables. The method includes detecting a wearable area on a human body, scanning the wearable area to facilitate the suitability of the wearable area for projection, and projecting the virtual wearable on the wearable area using a projector of a primary wearable device of the user. The figure be...
Samsung and Bayer Invest in A.I. Doctor App Ada Health
[Investing]
2021/06/01 00:08
Ada Health has raised a $90 million funding round at an undisclosed valuation that brings total investment in the company up to around $150 million.“The app basically works like a WhatsApp chat with your trusted family doctor, but 24/7,” CEO Daniel Nathrath told CNBC.Bayer led the round through its Leaps by Bayer investment arm, while Samsung invested through the Samsung Catalyst Fund, a U.S....
The Rise, And Rise, Of LVMH
[Business]
2021/06/01 00:07
LVMH. The luxury conglomerate has been on an acquisition spree — and it has made its CEO the wealthiest person on Earth.Europe doesn't have a big tech sector. It doesn't have an enormously cheap manufacturing industry. What it does have is huge luxury goods companies — and this week the biggest of them all, LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton), saw its share price hit an all-time high. That al...
Re-Charge LA - Electric Vehicle Charging Stations as Drive-In Cinemas
[Design]
2021/06/01 00:06
Architecture studio Woods Bagot has designed a concept for electric vehicle charging stations for Downtown Los Angeles that could double as drive-in movie theatres.Called Re-Charge LA, the project imagines how electric vehicle charging stations could become visitor destinations.It envisions a digital screen that could be lowered to form a canopy for the cars below during daytime, then raised at...
