TREND REPORTS
(Paper) Emerging Technology Uses Tiny Fibers That can Track Your Blood Pressure
[Tech]
2020/12/03 16:12
Microfiber- and nanofiber-based wearable technology can be used to monitor a patient's vital signs at all times. A shirt that monitors your blood pressure or a pair of socks that can keep track of your cholesterol levels might be just a few years away from becoming reality.In an article published in Applied Physics Reviews, researchers examine the use of microfibers, and even smaller nanofibers...
An Intervention Solution That Manages and Reinvents Food Waste - Pairish
[Business]
2020/12/03 16:12
Pairish has two product lines that offer pickling and smoothie making mixes, giving people the option to reinvent their leftover produce.Food waste is a major global problem, with about one-third of it wasted, lost or uneaten. As this issue has been receiving increasing attention, many solutions are being developed to help curb the problem. The Pairish app is a food waste intervention solution...
Lockdown Takes eCommerce to 40% of Retail
[Business]
2020/12/03 16:12
The growth of ecommerce has always fit the old line about a frog in boiling water. Every year, the share of retail taken by ecommerce rose a little higher, and physical retailers got a little more uncomfortable, but the growth in any given year was never dramatic enough to make headlines. That was until 2020, of course - now we’ve had a reset. Lockdowns triggered a huge spike in online sales o...
Scale AI Hits $3.5B Valuation as It Turns the AI Boom Into a Venture Bonanza
[Investing]
2020/12/03 16:12
Scale AI, the four-year-old data labeling startup, has discovered that selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence is big business.The company, which created a visual data labeling platform that uses software and people to label image, text, voice and video data for companies building machine learning algorithms, has raised another $155 million. The funding...
Following Fan : The Person-Tracking Smart Fan
[Product]
2020/12/03 16:11
Fans can typically only be locked off or set to oscillate, in either case meaning that they won't necessarily always be blowing on someone who is moving around. As its name implies, however, the Following Fan tracks its user, panning with them as they walk.The device was designed by Minnesota-based software engineers Nate Oelke and Aj Sakher. And while it looks like an ordinary steel-bodied, al...
Vivo’s Concept Phone Has A Pop-up Camera That Can Be Removed
[Product]
2020/12/03 16:11
Vivo, the granddaddy of pop-up front-facing camera, is not done with the pop-up camera yet. It was recently revealed that it is taking the pop-up camera further. How? By making it detachable.That’s right. A detachable camera on a smartphone. I have to admit. It is rather gimmicky, but it is not without its usefulness. Who knows, this concept, referred to as IFEA detectable front camera concept...
(PDF) MarTech 2030 : 5 Trends in Marketing Technology
[Business]
2020/12/02 09:10
Martech 2030: Five Trends in Marketing Technology for the Decade of the Augmented Marketer.Four months ago, I started a collaboration with Jason Baldwin, the global head of product management at WPP, to write a paper on the major trends in marketing technology that we believe will shape the decade ahead for agencies and brands.It wasn’t about guessing our own “hype cycle” of individual techn...
(Video) Google DeepMind AI Cracks 50-Year-Old Problem of Protein Folding
[Tech]
2020/12/02 09:09
Program solves scientific problem in ‘stunning advance’ for understanding machinery of life. A protein’s function is determined by the shape it folds into, which traditionally takes years to discover through lab work. Having risen to fame on its superhuman performance at playing games, the artificial intelligence group DeepMind has cracked a serious scientific problem that has stumped resear...
Keep Your Social Distance While Playing Erik Satie in Social Harmony Installation
[Design]
2020/12/02 09:08
Since the COVID-19 pandemic took over the world, our way of life has changed drastically, forcing us to respect social distancing measurements and masks policies to prevent further spread of the virus.In order to make these new social regulations as fun as possible, japanese social design activists NOSIGNER have created social harmony, an installation that aims to spread the culture of social d...
