IKEA Gunrid Air-Purifying Curtain Fights Pollution Inside Your Home
[Product]
2019/03/01 16:48
The technology works like photosynthesis, using sunlight and a chemical coating to destroy indoor pollutants.The World Health Organization says that air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk on the planet. It causes heart and respiratory disease, cancer, and stroke. Scientists attribute 1 of every 8 deaths caused by those diseases to pollution. And if you think you’re safe at home...
(PDF) Capgemini - Conversational Commerce : The Future for Brands is Conversational
[Business]
2019/02/26 16:48
Consumers are adopting smart speakers an order of magnitude faster than they did the smartphone. The devices, and the voice assistants which inhabit them, will change shopping forever, creating a new era: Conversational Commerce.This paper explains how it will accelerate the changes e-commerce is already creating in consumer industries; how it results in a new, emotionally engaged relationship...
(Patent) This is The New Apple Watch with Flexible Display
[Tech]
2019/02/26 16:48
Apple Exploring Flexible Display Designs for Future Apple Watch.Patents are cool because they reveal where technology is headed further into the future than the usual leaks and renders. And while not every patented tech makes it into a commercially available device, if a company is patenting something it’s usually considering it for its products.The latest patent coming from Apple reveals wher...
Microsoft’s Hype Strategy for HoloLens Is to Avoid It
[Product]
2019/02/26 16:48
Microsoft unveiled a new version of the HoloLens augmented-reality headset, which can overlay instructions to guide workers through tasks, at Mobile World Congress on Sunday. Visionaries behind augmented-reality headsets have promised gee-whiz futures where wearers can zip holograms away with a flick of the wrist and battle digital baddies amassing around workplace cubicles.Microsoft Corp is se...
The Hot, Lucrative Market in IT Security Talent
[Business]
2019/02/26 16:48
The cybersecurity talent shortage has driven up salaries. A look at who’s making what. Upward pressure on pay for cybersecurity talent is likely to continue amid high demand and limited supply.Cybercrime may or may not pay, but one thing is certain: Cybersecurity pays very well.A shortage of talent is driving up salaries in the field as companies continue to bulk up their cybersecurity rosters...
Visualizing the Money Made Per Second by Top Companies
[Investing]
2019/02/26 16:47
Imagine that for every second that passes, your bank account inches up $1.[click to enlarge]You’d be making $60 per minute, or the equivalent of $86,400 in a day. Over the course of a year, you’d roll in a solid $31.5 million of profit.While this would be prolific for almost any person or company in the world – the truth is that for many of America’s top companies, this amount of profit wou...
Walmart Launches Baby Line with Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard
[Product]
2019/02/26 16:47
Walmart on Monday launched "Hello Bello," an exclusive line of plant-derived baby products developed by husband-and-wife duo Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell, who are parents themselves.The 10 products — diapers, wipes, shampoo and body wash, bubble bath, baby lotion, diaper rash cream, hand sanitizer, mineral sunscreen, bug spray and laundry detergent — are "formulated with safe and effective in...
(Infographic) What We Spend On Valentine's Day
[Consumer]
2019/02/26 16:47
Counting the Cost of Valentine's Day.Infographic : https://cdn.moneytips.com/logo/24920__vmaster_v138.jpeg[moneytips]
(Patent) Full Moon Patents : Disney’s Acrobatic Robots and Ford’s Drive-by Drone Deliveries
[Tech]
2019/02/25 09:10
Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. This February-ish roundup lands on the beautiful Snow Moon!Since my last post, the US patent office issued over 33,041 patents and published over 32,2...