EyKuver looks to give eyeglass wearers a shortcut to creating prescription sunglasses. There are plenty of options out there for adding some sunglass-grade tint to a pair of prescription eyeglasses, from clip-on shades, to clear-to-dark electrochromic glasses. Colorado startup EyKuver has a different idea that's lighter, simpler, quite affordable and rather intuitive: easily removable tinted fi...

A bus shelter that filters polluted city air, removes airborne allergens and kills viruses, bacteria and fungi within seconds. that’s what sino inno lab and arup have developed with ‘CAPS 2.0’, the city air purification system.Following the first prototype from 2015, this patented second-generation system is on a mission to protect urban dwellers with filtration and sanitization technologies...

Emerging technologies have the potential to completely reshape the healthcare industry and the way people manage their health. In fact, tech innovation in healthcare and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) could provide more convenient, personalized care for patients.It could also create substantially more value for the industry as a whole—up to $410 billion per year by 2025.This graphic b...

Consumers say they will spend less time in digital channels once the pandemic ends. Here’s what it means for companies.The COVID-19 pandemic has driven rapid adoption of digital channels across countries and industries, but digital’s growth has plateaued in the past six months and may begin to slip back once the pandemic eases—even as total digital adoption stays well above prepandemic level...

Video is, quite literally, what gets the world moving online these days, and is expected to account for 82% of all IP traffic this year. Today a startup that has built a set of tools to help better parse, index and ultimately discover that trove of content is announcing a big round of funding to expand its business after seeing 600% growth in the last year.AnyClip — which combines artificial i...

Her flagship fund ARKK, which had a dramatic breakout during the pandemic, is way off its peak as bold bets on Tesla and Bitcoin have faltered. But for the superstar portfolio manager, there’s always five years from now.In the weirdest year of our lives, the rise of Cathie Wood is hardly the weirdest thing to happen. But still. She’s the first star in an industry, the $6.3 trillion world of e...

Panasonic is involved in a project on the island of Ishigaki, southwest of Okinawa, to seek ways to grow vegetables in subtropical monsoon conditions. Part of the Japanese government's Asian Monsoon Plant Factory System (PFS) Consortium, the goal is to create a stable local supply of produce despite the climate.Regions that are subject to monsoon seasons can see a wide range of effects, from a...

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...

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...