Are consumers ready for disruptive automotive technology?What automobile industry trends and disruptive technologies might drive the automotive industry in 2020? Explore the data and insights from the 11th year of Deloitte’s Global Automotive Consumer Study (fielded in fall 2019) and discover how 35,000 consumers in 20 countries are feeling about autonomy, electric and connected vehicles, ride...

U.S. patent application, US20200339157, describes an apparatus having a safety analyzer to determine whether a vehicle is in a safe or dangerous situation at different time periods, and a user interface to graphically present the vehicle’s situation at those time periods. The illustration below depicts generated user interfaces.Patent Application : https://bit.ly/38aEjbs[USPTO]

MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even in Asymptomatic People.Part of the challenge in controlling the coronavirus pandemic is in identifying and isolating infected people quickly – not particularly easy when COVID-19 symptoms aren't always noticeable, especially early on. Now scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence model that can detect the virus from...

The latest Canalys forecast expects shipments of smartphone accessories, namely wearable bands and TWS devices, to exceed 200 million units and 350 million units respectively in 2021. As the COVID-19 pandemic deepened globally, consumers turned their attention to smart wearable and smart hearable accessories. Canalys research shows that compared to smartphones, wearable bands and TWS earbud cat...

Sidekick Health recently partnered with Pfizer to develop its digital therapeutics platform for patients across Europe.With plans to use video game elements to build care programs for multiple chronic diseases and conditions, SidekickHealth has raised $20 million in venture capital to support its projects. The Swedish digital therapeutics developer’s series A investment round was led by Wellin...

Electronics “Made in Asia” are as strong as they ever were. The top 8 of the world’s biggest revenue generators are filled with the who-is-who of manufacturers from different parts of the continent. A first non-Asian company – North Carolina manufacturer Honeywell – comes in rank 10 of the biggest electronics and electrical equipment companies in the world, according to the Global Fortune...

Concept illustration of the adaptable Wheel-and-Leg Transformable Robot currently being developed under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract. A team of researchers is creating mobile robots for military applications that can determine, with or without human intervention, whether wheels or legs are more suitable to travel across terrains. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Ag...

Here’s the problem. Street cleaning is a physically demanding job that calls for longer hours compared to indoor cleaning jobs and farther distances to travel (sometimes up to 16 km per day). The work is essential yet under-appreciated. It’s unfair to expect these workers, especially if they are older, to cover these distances on foot and pull a trolley of their cleaning supplies behind them....

In the Explorer Project, LG recently launched its first device, the LG Wing that arrived with an innovative and bold design. Now, the company might also be working on another new device within this project as a recent patent suggests that the South Korean tech giant is making another innovative smartphone with a rollable display.According to a LetsGoDigital report, LG filed a new patent with th...