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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...
(Infographic) The Top 30 Most Valuable Real Estate Cities in the U.S.
[Investing]
2020/12/02 09:07
According to real estate tycoon Harold Samuel, there are three things that matter when it comes to real estate value—location, location, and location.America’s property market is no exception to this rule. Depending on the city and its—you guessed it—location, there are vast discrepancies in real estate value across the country.Usingthe latest data from LendingTree, this graphic ranks the t...
(Paper) MIT Engineers Built an AI That Design Its Own Robots - RoboGrammar
[Tech]
2020/12/02 09:06
As the latest bit of evidence that humanity has learned nothing from the “Terminator” franchise, we present RoboGrammer — an AI algorithm that can design its own robot bodies.Thankfully, RoboGrammer still needs a helping hand from humanity, ExtremeTech reports, and it can’t manufacture anything on its own, so a machine uprising remains unlikely. But the MIT-built algorithm is particularly a...
U.S. Billionaires Gained $1 Trillion Since The Pandemic Started
[Investing]
2020/12/02 09:05
American billionaires haven't been just immune to the pandemic, they have been thriving in it, drastically increasing their collective wealth. An analysis by Chuck Collins at the Institute for Policy Studies found that American billionaires have been their wealth grow by $1 trillion since March of this year - more than 34 percent. That was not the case during the 2008 financial crisis when it t...
(Paper) T-Ray Technology Reveals What's Getting Under Your Skin
[Tech]
2020/12/02 09:04
A new method for analyzing the structure of skin using a type of radiation known as T-rays could help improve the diagnosis and treatment of skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis and skin cancer.Scientists from the University of Warwick and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have shown that using a method that involves analyzing T-rays fired from several different angles, they can b...
