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A New Portable Oxygen Inhalator - Air-Pot
[Design]
2018/05/07 09:03
A new portable oxygen inhalator that can be conveniently used in everyday life by supplementing the shortcomings of existing portable oxygen inhalator.MotivePatients who difficult self-breathing should always carry the oxygen inhalator whenever and wherever.However, the inhalator for survival is very heavy and large. So it is a burden to patients.Design directionExisting medical devices are not...
(PDF) WEF - Blockchain Beyond the Hype
[Business]
2018/05/03 10:33
This common sense and practical framework is designed to assist executives in understanding whether blockchain is an appropriate and helpful tool for their business needs. It starts from the premise that blockchain is merely a technology – much like many others that are already used in society – and like other technologies it is as much about change management and careful attention to the eco...
(Video) MIT's Dormio : Interfacing with Dreams to Augment Human Creativity
[Tech]
2018/05/03 10:33
Great artists and thinkers have found inspiration in their lucid “microdreams” for centuries. Now, there’s an interface that can record them for you.Beethoven, Poe, and Tesla all claimed to use a bizarre creative technique to come up with some of their ideas–a method that involved accessing their dreams to hunt down brilliant concepts and bring them into the conscious world. Researchers at...
(PDF) Mckinsey - AI’s Growing Impact
[Business]
2018/05/03 10:33
Smart machines are giving storytellers and risk managers alike a helping hand.Burgeoning data analyzed by ever more intelligent machines are opening pathways to surprising applications and providing solutions to problems that have been out of reach. In the film industry, machines “watch” movies and videos, charting their emotional intensity and giving content creators clues about to how to ma...
How Emotion Tracking Provides Insight Into Consumer Behavior
[Business]
2018/05/03 10:33
Emotionally sensitive technology allows brands and consumers to analyze responses to products, services and experiences.Human-to-machine programming is becoming increasingly prescient thanks to emotionally sensitive technologies that can decipher users’ behavior, desires and needs. Advances in machine learning and neuroscience enable individuals to gain more insight into their everyday mental...
(Video) Ford "Feel The View" - A Smart Window for Blind Passengers
[Tech]
2018/05/03 10:33
Ford is aiming to make car rides a bit more interesting for blind people and those with very limited vision. A company’s team in Italy, working with Aedo, a firm developing technologies for people with visual impairments, and GTB, a marketing agency, have developed a system they call Feel The View.When the user presses its single button, it takes a picture of the scenery outside and converts i...
(Infographic) The Warren Buffett Empire in One Giant Chart
[Investing]
2018/05/03 10:32
Most people know Berkshire Hathaway as the massive conglomerate that serves as the investment vehicle for Warren Buffett’s $83 billion fortune. However, far fewer people know what this giant does, and how it actually makes its money![click to enlarge]Today’s infographic breaks down the many companies and investments that Berkshire Hathaway owns.It’s the third part of the Warren Buffett Serie...
The Countries With The Highest Density Of Robot Workers
[Consumer]
2018/05/03 10:32
The rise of the machines has well and truly started. Data from the International Federation of Robotics reveals that the pace of industrial automation is accelerating across much of the developed world with 66 installed industrial robots per 10,000 employees globally in 2015. A year later, that increased to 74. Europe has a robot density of 99 units per 10,000 workers and that number is 84 and...
The Ambitious Plan to Build a City of Floating Pyramids - Wayaland
[Design]
2018/05/03 10:31
Wayaland would include houses, hotels, retail areas, and cinemas.Pierpaolo Lazzarini, the Italian designer behind the UFO 2.0 floating home, has conceived a floating community made up of solar-powered pyramid-shaped buildings. The Wayaland project is still very much in the concept stage at present, but Lazzarini is hoping to raise the funds necessary to begin construction on it with a crowdfund...
