TREND REPORTS
Top Battery Scientists Have a Plan to Electrify Flight and Slash Airline Emissions
[Tech]
2018/11/01 10:34
A manufacturing trick with magnetic fields produces a battery that may discharge fast enough to get an aircraft off the ground.CMU mechanical engineering professor Venkat Viswanathan and MIT materials science professor Yet-Ming Chiang (right) are developing a new battery specifically designed for an advanced hybrid plane.Brightly colored molecular models line two walls of Yet-Ming Chiang’s off...
All-In-One Portable Projector Can Turn Any Flat Surface Into a Touchscreen
[Product]
2018/11/01 10:34
The puppy cube is able to track up to 10 simultaneous touch points on the projected image.After seeing a pre-production prototype at IFA 2014, we got the opportunity to pick up a stylus-like pen, power up a portable projector and were able to interact with images thrown onto our wall by the successfully crowdfunded Touchjet Pond. Now China's Puppy Robotics is launching the puppy cube, a laser p...
Amazon’s Ambitious Drive Into Digital-Advertising
[Business]
2018/11/01 10:34
Building a big ad business will help the firm to keep expanding.An award-winning series, “The Marvellous Mrs Maisel”, follows the fortunes of a woman in the 1950s who undergoes an unlikely transformation from a typical housewife of the day into a talented standup comedian. It is produced by Amazon and can be viewed on Prime Video, the e-commerce giant’s on-demand service. Since its birth in...
Create A Canvas of Flawless Skin with a Little Cotton - Amiro
[Design]
2018/11/01 10:33
Throw out your loofa! Amiro is here to do the dirty work. This bathroom pouf might look soft and delicate, but it’s been designed to bust out dirt and unclog pores (gently, of course).Its textured outer layer features double-injected silicon technology that feels as soft as a baby’s bottom but is specially designed to exfoliate and cleanse on a micro level.Better yet, to really dislodge envir...
Monthly Trend Report - November. 2018 Edition
[Trendbird]
2018/11/01 10:20
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(PDF) Deloitte - Capturing Value from The Smart Packaging Revolution
[Business]
2018/10/28 09:10
Smart packaging offers significant opportunities and a real risk of disruption. Innovative business models and practices can help overcome challenges and maximize the value of smart packaging applications.A shipment of high-end skin care products leaves its offshore production facility, and an embedded multifunction sensor in the pallet tracks the location of the product as it moves through mul...
(Patent) Facebook Confirms It’s Building Augmented Reality Glasses
[Tech]
2018/10/28 09:09
“Yeah! Well of course we’re working on it,” Facebook’s head of augmented reality Ficus Kirkpatrick told me when I asked him at TechCrunch’s AR/VR event in LA if Facebook was building AR glasses. “We are building hardware products. We’re going forward on this . . . We want to see those glasses come into reality, and I think we want to play our part in helping to bring them there.”This is...
Microsoft and NAB Trial Biometrics for Cardless ATMs
[Tech]
2018/10/28 09:08
Facial recognition to allow customers to withdraw funds.The National Australia Bank (NAB) is looking towards a cardless future, unveiling a partnership with Microsoft that sees the companies develop a proof of concept Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) to allow customers to withdraw funds using their face.Announced during Sibos in Sydney on Tuesday, the proof of concept has been developed using Azu...
Portrait Painted by AI Sells For $432,500
[Design]
2018/10/28 09:07
A painting made by an artificial intelligence program sold at Christie’s in New York auction on Thursday for $432,500—far more than the estimated $7,000 to $10,000.An anonymous phone bidder bought the painting, Portrait of Edmond Belamy, which was created by an algorithm developed by the Paris art collective Obvious. The three-person team fed the network 15,000 portraits from the 14th through...
