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Nailed It : Don’t Paint Your Nails - Print Them !
[Product]
2020/01/08 09:07
Beauty and tech go hand-hand with the latest proliferation of at-home nail art printers. The following offerings condense the painstaking process of an artful manicure into a streamlined and customized experience that users can do themselves from the comfort of their home—no salon necessary.1. AnjouThe ultimate nail customization device is here—and it boasts a laser. Nail art brand Anjou debu...
Why Ebook Subscription Services Will Finally Succeed In The Coming Decade
[Business]
2020/01/08 09:06
Subscription services for digital music, movies, and TV shows are all very popular nowadays, but for ebooks, they aren’t. Although ebook subscription services have existed for several years, they have yet to take off. That’s going to change in the coming decade: by the end of the 2020s, we’ll see subscription ebooks become as ubiquitous as Spotify and Netflix.Ebook subscription services have...
This A.I. App Converts Any Photo Into 3D, No Dual Lenses Required - Lucidpix
[Product]
2020/01/08 09:05
3D photos literally pop out of any newsfeed — but sharing one requires a device with dual lenses or Dual Pixel technology. Not for much longer, however. LucidPix, teased during CES 2020, is an artificial intelligence app that takes photos that you’ve already snapped and converts them into 3D images.LucidPix works by using contextual A.I. to identify the objects in the scene, and then generati...
Meydan Levy Creates 4D-Printed Artificial Fruit Filled with Nutrients - Neo Fruit
[Design]
2020/01/08 09:04
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design graduate Meydan Levy has developed five edible artificial fruits, which comprise printed cellulose skins filled with a cocktail of vitamins and minerals.Called Neo Fruit, Levy's fake fruit have soft cases that are 3D-printed from translucent cellulose – an organic compound that gives plants their structure.These skins are then injected with nutrient-rich liqui...
(Video) CES 2020 - L'Oréal Launches Perso, a 3-in-1 At-Home Personalized Beauty Device
[Product]
2020/01/07 09:10
A First-Of-Its-Kind, 3-in-1 Device For Personalized At-Home Skincare And Cosmetics. Smart AI system creates on-demand, personalized formulas for skincare, lipstick, and foundation that optimize over time--incorporating real-time skin assessment, air-quality, pollution data and trend analysis.L'Oréal today unveiled Perso, an AI-powered at-home system that represents the ultimate in beauty perso...
2020 Prediction Consensus : What Experts See Coming in 2020
[Business]
2020/01/07 09:09
Through the ages, humans have feared uncertainty. We’ve searched for clues in everything from entrails to tea leaves to the arrangement of heavenly bodies in the night sky.In the modern era, data and media are the new magic 8-ball. The jury is still out on whether we’ve gotten any better at anticipating the forces that will shape the coming year, but that certainly hasn’t stopped people from...
(Paper) MIT's SensorSnaps : Integrating Wireless Sensor Nodes into Fabric Snap Fasteners
[Tech]
2020/01/07 09:08
SensorSnaps are low-power wireless sensor nodes that seamlessly integrate into caps of fabric snap fasteners.SensorSnaps provide a new technique to quickly and intuitively augment any location on the clothing with sensing capabilities. SensorSnaps securely attach and detach from ubiquitous commercial snap fasteners. Using inertial measurement units, the SensorSnaps detect tap and rotation gestu...
CES 2020 - Bosch's LCD Car Visor Only Blocks Your View of the Road Where the Sun Is In Your Eyes
[Tech]
2020/01/07 09:07
Fully autonomous vehicles are already being tested on roads across the country, but there’s one feature in every car that feels like it hasn’t been upgraded in a century: the sun visor. So a group of engineers from Bosch set out to update this antiquated feature so that it blocks the sun without also blocking a driver’s view of the road.It’s a problem that every driver experiences at at lea...
How Amazon Makes Its Money
[Business]
2020/01/07 09:06
Here's a breakdown of Amazon's revenue from across its e-commerce and retail ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, streaming services, consumer devices, advertising business, and beyond.Amazon is unique among giant US tech corporations. It's not just an e-commerce and shopping giant, a cloud provider, a device-maker, or a software-and-services platform—it's also a money-making leviathan with tentac...
