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(Video) The Soothe Shirt & Dad Shirt: Simple Babywearing - Lalabu
[Design]
2017/10/26 10:05
Fashion trends change from season to season, it’s hard to keep up with what’s cool and what’s definitely not. I’m by no means a ‘fashionista’ but I can tell you that the Lalabu Dad Shirt will never be going out of style. The Lalabu began with Brian and Keri — the husband and wife team behind Lalabu. Inspired by a trip to Africa, the Lalabu was conceived while noticing how soothing the pr...
Tetris Meets Snake and Ladders in Colorful Tiny-Living Installation
[Design]
2017/10/26 10:04
The nine colorful blocks that make up the nine-meter-tall (30 ft) Wego installation are stacked together in a Tetris meets Snakes and Ladders kinda way.Growing urban populations pose all manner of challenges, one of which is how designers can come up with more efficient ways to cram people in. The new Wego installation on show at Dutch Design Week takes this to the extreme, aiming to provoke id...
(Infographic) The Power of Smart Contracts on the Blockchain
[Tech]
2017/10/26 10:03
The world is waking up to the impressive capabilities of the blockchain.As a foundational technology that things can be “built on top” of, the potential applications of the blockchain go way beyond just payments or cryptocurrencies. In fact, the blockchain could revolutionize how we interact with intellectual property, capital markets, insurance, healthcare, government, and many other sectors...
(PDF) Transportation Transformation : The Current State of The Autonomous Car
[Consumer]
2017/10/25 10:10
early two-thirds of new vehicles for sale offer autonomous features, and shoppers are willing to pay a premium for cars equipped with this technology.Car shoppers are more ready for autonomous vehicles than they may realize, according to a new report from Edmunds, the leading car shopping and information platform. Thanks to the rapid adoption of active safety features, more than 60 percent of n...
(Patent) Amazon Patents Always-On Video Streams Of Friends And Relatives’ Homes
[Tech]
2017/10/25 10:09
The video would be blurred and voices muffled but the idea is for people to be able to guess whether friends and family are available in order to hop on spontaneous video calls.In a patent granted to Amazon today, the tech giant proposes connecting households via video screens that would monitor the users’ rooms continuously, and let their friends or family tune in to access blurred visuals an...
Digital Diploma Using Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology Debuts at MIT
[Tech]
2017/10/25 10:08
Using Bitcoin's blockchain technology, the Institute has become one of the first universities to issue recipient-owned virtual credentials.In 1868, the fledgling Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Boylston Street awarded its first diplomas to 14 graduates. Since then, it has issued paper credentials to more than 207,000 undergraduate and graduate students in much the same way.But this sum...
Amazon Could be Responsible for Nearly Half of U.S. E-Commerce Sales in 2017
[Business]
2017/10/25 10:07
For online retailers, Amazon is becoming even more daunting.Amazon will own a bigger piece of e-commerce sales this year owning about 44 cents out of every e-commerce dollar spent in the U.S., up from 38 cents the previous year, according to new estimates on public companies from research firm eMarketer.Amazon’s e-commerce sales are expected to grow 32 percent to $196.8 billion dollars in 2017...
(Video) Building Flexible Electronics from Scratch Using 3D Printers
[Tech]
2017/10/25 10:06
Scientists from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have created a way to print flexible electronic devices. The development may herald future ubiquity of flexible body-worn products that can monitor various health parameters, provide therapy, and guide users in exercise and rehabilitation routines.The new technique is called Hybrid 3-D printing, an...
(Infographic) What The iPhone Would Be Like In 30 Years
[Product]
2017/10/25 10:05
When the iPhone X was revealed, there was much excitement—but also much controversy for its unusually high prices of US$999 for the 64GB version and US$1,149 for a 256GB unit. Over the past decade, Apple’s iPhone has evolved significantly, both in terms of how it looks and the features it has—have you ever wondered what it would look like in 30 years time, if it still exist then? SSls.com ha...
