Light Touch Technology Co., Ltd. raises a total of 120 million yen Accelerate development for mass production of non-invasive blood glucose sensor that does not require blood collection.Light Touch Technology (LTT) Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Osaka, CEO: Koichi Yamakawa, hereinafter “LTT”), which develops the world’s first non-invasive blood glucose sensor that does not require blood...

China’s young, beauty-obsessed consumers are open to any skincare concept that gives them an edge, and now they’re turning to edible beauty snacks. Key Takeaways:Skin-boosting snacks are the latest lucrative frontier in China’s crowded beauty market.As part of China’s COVID-fueled wellness trend, beauty snacks are also a part of China’s bigger “everywhere and anywhere” skincare movement....

Back in 2019, most industrial organizations already saw the vast potential of 5G. With the intervening rollout of commercial 5G and the launch of the Release 16 specifications, what have the early adopters learned and how can this help accelerate adoption? We wanted to find out.For the latest Capgemini Research Institute report, Accelerating the 5G Industrial Revolution: State of 5G and edge in...

Berlin startup Made of Air has developed a bioplastic made of forest and farm waste that sequesters carbon and can be used for everything from furniture to building facades.The recyclable material is 90 per cent carbon and stores around two tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) for every tonne of plastic.By 2050, Made of Air hopes to be storing up to a gigatonne of CO2e a year in the mater...

Lego is amazing. But if you or your kids are avid about building, you will inevitably end up with a big pile of bricks, shed from different sets. Sometimes that pile looks like the pure nuggets of creativity. Other times, it’s just a maddening reminder that you will never, ever get your life organized.The Brickit app, free on iOS, is a promising way to look at your bricks anew. While it was de...

The DISASTER RELIEF-FOLDING POD is an emergency shelter project, envisioned, designed, and now is being developed, led by a team at the firm of Hariri & Hariri Architecture D.P.C. in New York City.With a mission to “save human lives” and to create a technologically challenging, ecologically responsible & morally rewarding alternative shelter for the 21st Century. The FOLDING POD is de...

This is the tenth consecutive year that we have tracked the shopping behaviors of Chinese consumers. Our continuing research has given us a valuable long-term view across 106 fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) categories purchased for home consumption in China. As in each of the past nine years, we analyzed the key 26 categories1 that span the four largest consumer goods sectors: packaged food,...

U.S. patent application, 20210186068, discloses a food processing system, comprising a solid-state radio frequency cooking means that transmits an electromagnetic wave to a food substrate and a cavity where the food is cooked. The system monitors the return power losses, which are the difference between the power emitted by the solid-state radio frequency cooking means and the reflected power i...

Autonomous driving system developer Ghost Locomotion has raised a $100 million Series D funding round, led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Returning investor Founders Fund also participated in the round, along with Coatue. The money will be used toward R&D as the company continues to develop its highway self-driving and crash prevention technology.Ghost has been working on a universal collision av...