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Migraine-Zapping Device Developed By Nerivio Offers Hope For Sufferers
[Product]
2020/01/28 09:04
Placed on the upper arm, the Nerivio Migra® uses smartphone-controlled electrical pulses to create a Conditioned Pain Modulation (CPM) response.When Israeli entrepreneur Alon Ironi founded biomedical company Theranica Bioelectronics in 2016, the last migraine medication to have hit the market emerged in the 1990s, and the migraine treatment world was largely static.Remedies for migraines – th...
CES 2020 - BMW Wants You to Lounge During Your Autonomous Ride
[Product]
2020/01/28 09:03
At CES, BMW announced a lot of new tech for its upcoming cars, but it’s also highlighting some of the work it’s doing on creating the right kind of creature comforts for when autonomous driving takes off. Why, after all, wouldn’t you want to lounge in a “luxurious ZeroG Lounger” while your (robot) driver whisks you down the highway. And why shouldn’t your car’s interior resemble “the re...
(PDF) IBM - Meet The 2020 Consumers Driving Change
[Consumer]
2020/01/27 09:10
Today’s consumers are motivated by a search for value that goes beyond price comparisons.Throughout history, shopping has involved taking a trip, planned in advance, to a favorite store for which a consumer made time. Then, the ecommerce revolution upended that predictable relationship and activity. In lieu of going to a store, people increasingly purchased goods and services online and sight...
Cruise Unveils Its First Driverless Origin Car for Shared Ownership
[Product]
2020/01/27 09:09
Autonomous vehicle startup Cruise has revealed its first self-driving, electric car designed for shared ownership, which has no steering wheel or pedals.Cruise was able to rid the Origin car of an engine, steering wheel, rearview mirrors, pedals and windshield wipers, to leave a spacious cabin "designed around the rider".Developed in partnership with General Motors (GM) and Honda, Origin is the...
Wuhan Virus : A Visual Explainer
[Business]
2020/01/27 09:08
China has confirmed the newly identified coronavirus in Wuhan city is transmitted from person to person. With growing numbers of fatalities and confirmed pneumonia-like infections worldwide, the Chinese authorities’ most urgent concern is to contain the outbreak as the Lunar New Year holiday rush begins.The first cases of what was then a mystery illness were reported in December in Wuhan, the...
(Paper) Adobe’s AI Lets You Preview Any Item of Clothing on a Virtual Body Model - SieveNet
[Tech]
2020/01/27 09:07
Adobe's SieveNet realistically transfers images of clothing to virtual models.Platforms that let shoppers virtually try on cosmetics, apparel, and accessories have exploded in popularity over the past decade, and it’s easy to see why. According to a survey conducted by banking company Klarna, 29% of shoppers prefer to browse for items online before actually buying them, while 49% are intereste...
D2C Brand Perfect Diary is Disrupting China’s Beauty Market
[Business]
2020/01/27 09:06
In China, the development of D2C brands has been built on similar strategies to brands globally, however, the strategies have been adapted for the local market and focus heavily on user platforms and customer care. Perfect Diary has paved the way, becoming one of China’s first beauty disruptors.Perfect Diary is one of China’s most innovative D2C brands and is now valued at US$1 billion. It ha...
Visualizing Companies in The Trillion Dollar Club
[Investing]
2020/01/27 09:05
In mid-January, Alphabet (the parent company of Google) became the newest company to join the “Trillion Dollar Club.” The companies in this exclusive group have three main features in common: their market caps have reached $1 trillion at some point, they are all based in the U.S., and they are all part of the technology sector. Our latest visualization sets out a side-by-side comparison of th...
An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus - Bluedot
[Business]
2020/01/27 09:04
The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China.On January 9, the World Health Organization notified the public of a flu-like outbreak in China: a cluster of pneumonia cases had been reported in Wuhan, possibly from vendors’ exposure to live animals at the Huanan Seafood Market. The US Centers...
