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The Mono Study Pod
[Design]
2025/01/14 09:04
Pods come with limited space and are only suitable for a single user or for smaller meetings or presentations, thus restricting the number of participants who can attend meetings within the pod office.One such example is the Mono study pod, designed by Philip Bogaerts and René Vullings for an office furniture brand, stands out as a foldable, sound-dampened workspace. Its flexibility allows for...
Joey Crawling Aid For Babies
[Design]
2025/01/14 09:03
Joey is a revolutionary crawling product proven to aid the physical and cognitive development of infants at risk of delay. Daytot, a pioneering start-up dedicated to supporting infant development, approached Affect Design Studio to create Joey, an innovative product designed to help young babies with vulnerabilities learn to crawl. Joey promotes prone positioning and active movement—critical a...
(PDF) Lefty Trend Report - A Year in Data 2024
[Business]
2025/01/13 09:10
If 2023 was all about culture, 2024 was the year luxury and entertainment collided in bold, immersive ways.Brands went big, creating entire universes through storytelling, talent partnerships, and cross-category activations spanning cinema, music, and sports.Curious how this shaped strategies moving into 2025? Lefty and Karla Otto’s Year in Data report breaks it all down with exclusive insight...
Fermata's $10M Series A Funding for Innovative AI Solution Targeting Agriculture
[Investing]
2025/01/13 09:09
Fermata uses computer vision to detect diseases and pests in plants.When Valeria Kogan started her PhD program in bioinformatics, the scientific field that uses computation and software to analyze biological data, in 2017, she imagined her career would always be within the fields of mathematics, medicine, or biology. But after the first AI boom in the late 2010s, she got an intriguing opportuni...
Tesla Facelifts the Model Y With Cybertruck-Like Front End
[Product]
2025/01/13 09:08
Best-selling SUV was due for an update five years after launch. EV maker just posted first annual sales drop in over a decade.Tesla Inc. refreshed its best-selling Model Y, applying a design element of the polarizing Cybertruck to its high-volume sport utility vehicle.The model made its debut on Tesla’s China website on Friday, where the company started taking orders for deliveries starting in...
BCG - Consumers Are Spending More. Inflation Is Only Part of the Story
[Consumer]
2025/01/13 09:07
It’s hard for brands to find sources of growth amid inflation, but understanding consumer spending patterns can help them make the right moves.For categories where consumers say they’ll spend more on a higher-priced product, such as personal care and cars, brands can create new purchase or consumption occasions to win new customers.For categories where consumers say they’ll spend more by buy...
Hippocratic AI Raises $141M for Creating Patient-Facing AI Agents
[Investing]
2025/01/13 09:06
Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $141 million Series B at a valuation of $1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins, the company announced Thursday. The funding comes nine months after Hippocratic AI raised a $53 million round from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz and five months after raising $17 million fr...
The 10 Most Notable AI Stories of The Year
[Business]
2025/01/13 09:05
As we kick off 2025, the IoT Analytics research team has evaluated last year’s top AI stories. This article highlights 10 of the most impactful developments as well as some general observations and developments in the field of AI in 2024.AI 2024 in review1. Most notable AI-related cybersecurity story: State-sponsored hackers using LLMs to improve their attacks2. Most impactful AI-related regul...
The Drop : Fully Automated Nutrition Tracker
[Product]
2025/01/13 09:04
Finding it hard to count calories? Let the Drop do it for you and say goodbye to manual food logging forever.The Drop is the world's first fully automated wearable nutrition tracker, revolutionizing how you monitor your diet. Powered by our innovative Nutri Track technology, it automatically records everything you eat throughout the day and syncs it seamlessly with the companion app. No more ma...
