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14-Year-Old Crowned America's Top Young Scientist with Nano Particle Liquid Bandage Invention
[Tech]
2019/11/05 12:03
A 14-year-old from California is America's new top young scientist. Eighth grader Kara Fan's invention — a nano particle liquid bandage to replace antibiotics — beat out nine other finalists in the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a national competition held every year in St. Paul, Minnesota. Hundreds of students in fifth to eighth grade submitted ideas to the competition, which encourages middl...
(Video) A Russian Startup Created a Human-like Robot for Offices and Airports - Promobot Robo-C
[Tech]
2019/11/05 12:02
Russian startup Promobot is now selling autonomous androids — and buyers can choose to make the robots look like any person on Earth.“Everyone will now be able to order a robot with any appearance — for professional or personal use,” Aleksei Iuzhakov, Chairman of Promobot’s Board of Directors, said in a press release, later encouraging people to “imagine a replica of Michael Jordan sellin...
IrisVision : A Smartphone/Goggles Combination Intended to be a Cheaper, Less-Invasive Alternative to Retinal Chip Implants
[Product]
2019/11/05 12:02
They're bulky, but unlike surgery, they're reversible.The deterioration of eyesight is terrifying. As I get older, I now have to use my smartphone to photograph labels and other tiny text, then pinch and zoom on the image to read it. I recently received a subscription to Car & Driver as a gift, and discovered that the magazine's font size is too small for me to read.For me, that's a mild ha...
McDonald's Ghosts Outdoor Advertisement
[Design]
2019/11/05 12:01
Outdoor advertisement created by Cosette, United States for McDonald's, within the category: Food.[adsoftheworld]
(Patent) Apple Granted Patent for a ‘Consistently Tight’ Apple Watch Band
[Tech]
2019/11/05 04:20
Apple Watch patent reveals a watch band that could maintain consistently-tight fit. It would help optimize the operation of sensors.An Apple Watch patent published today has revealed the possibility of a "consistently-tight watch band".The patent would allow a strap to maintain constant tension through changes in length whilst being worn.It would improve consistency and functionality of Apple W...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How Companies Can Seize Opportunity in Vietnam’s Growing Retail Market
[Business]
2019/11/05 04:20
Vietnam’s economic stability and growing middle class create an attractive retail environment. Companies need to embrace three key trends to translate the opportunity into profitable enterprises.Asian emerging economies are growing two to three times faster than developed economies—and Vietnam is one of the region’s great success stories. The country’s political stability, recent economic t...
Starbucks Gets a Lift From Iced Coffee
[Business]
2019/11/05 04:20
Cold drinks now account for about half of the chain’s beverage sales; shares climb in after-hours trading. Stronger U.S. sales of iced coffee and other cold drinks bolstered sales in Starbucks’s latest quarter. Cold coffee is warming up Starbucks Corp. ’s U.S. sales.The world’s largest coffee chain said Wednesday that stronger U.S. sales of iced coffee and other cold drinks bolstered sales...
Apple Displayed Colossal Images of Dancers Around the World
[Business]
2019/11/05 04:20
Apple went massive with its new global campaign to promote something so tiny—its new AirPods Pro. Outdoor campaign or outsize proportions promote the tiny product. Along with TBWA/Media Arts Lab, the company dropped larger-than-life images of lithe dancers in eye-popping poses—some reaching 40 feet tall and even breaking out of the expected framework of massive out-of-home displays. They wrap...
Click-and-Collect Will Surge This Holiday Season
[Business]
2019/11/05 04:19
If Amazon is poised to gain share in the first half of the final week before Christmas, click-and-collect orders will tip the scales in the direction of big-box merchants during the second half of that week.According to Adobe, click-and-collect orders grew 50% during the 2018 holiday season, underscoring the synergistic effect of growing consumer demand and improved operational execution by ret...
