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Blickfeld Scores $4.25M Seed Round to Let Autonomous Vehicles ‘See’
[Investing]
2017/10/25 10:04
Blickfeld, a Munich-based startup developing a low-cost light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system to let autonomous vehicles “see,” has raised $4.25 million in seed funding.The round was led by Fluxunit (the corporate venture arm of lighting company Osram), High-Tech Gründerfonds, Tengelmann Ventures, and Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners, and will be used to speed up development of t...
The Press Fit by Sahar Madanat
[Design]
2017/10/25 10:03
The Press Fit by Sahar Madanat was developed initially as a surface to aid people suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, but when she debuted it at the Amman Design Week 2017. She was approached by a sailor who wanted to use the same product on ships too, to prevent items from moving about or products from falling off surfaces as the ship rocked backwards and forwards. Press Fit suddenly saw itse...
(PDF) Accenture : 10 Mega Trends - Driving The Future of Payments
[Business]
2017/10/24 12:29
Change in payments is in overdrive, and will only get faster. Traditional payments players are being squeezed from all sides.This point of view explores ten trends that Accenture believes will drive the future of payments. It includes consumer views based on the results of Accenture’s 2017 North America Consumer Payments Pulse Survey.TREND 1 : GEN Z RISING Though they are just teens and young...
(PDF) LiShield Can Block Smartphone Cameras for Privacy's Sake
[Tech]
2017/10/24 12:29
The LiShield privacy system uses a flickering LED light pattern to corrupt the images or videos taken by consumer digital cameras.Rules that prohibit photos or videos can prove almost impossible to enforce when nearly everyone carries a smartphone. But a new indoor privacy system has shown how the power of smart LED lighting could prevent people from taking illegal videos of a live Broadway sho...
(Infographic) Big Tech In AI : What Amazon, Apple, Google, GE, And Others Are Working On
[Investing]
2017/10/24 12:29
Combined, the 10 largest tech companies have acquired 50 AI companies in the last 5 years, targeting facial recognition startups, chatbots, chip makers, and more.Artificial intelligence is the future of big tech — and is already an integral part of the consumer and enterprise products at Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google.Now network connectivity providers like Cisco and Oracle are integra...
Google, Mercedes-Benz, and More Compete with Amazon in the Drone Delivery Race
[Business]
2017/10/24 12:29
Game of Drones.Amazon’s drone delivery system, Prime Air, is designed to get packages weighing up to five pounds to customers in 30 minutes or less, and though the company touts the service’s increased safety and convenience, critics consider a future filled with aerial data-gathering devices to be a scary invasion of privacy. That’s not stopping others from experimenting in the space, as de...
U.S. FMCG Dollars Aren't Vanishing ; They're Shifting Across the Store
[Business]
2017/10/24 12:29
Daily headlines make it clear that the U.S. grocery landscape is in the midst of major change. With retail channels like food, drug and mass merchandise experiencing declines in the first-half of 2017, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturers and retailers need to look more closely across the aisles of the store to determine how dollars are shifting, because dollars are vanishing all tog...
Surfaceskins Excrete Alcohol on Every Push to Prevent Spread of In-Hospital Infections
[Product]
2017/10/24 12:28
Hospital acquired infections continue to be a major source of patient morbidities. Hand washing guidelines, ubiquitously available alcohol sanitizers, and keeping patients away from each other has helped reduce the spread of nosocomial infections. Nevertheless, much more needs to be done to prevent hospitals themselves from being vectors that spread infections that walk through their doors.A sp...
This Electronic Alphabet Synthesizes Technology and Typography Into a 'Trademark' Typeface
[Design]
2017/10/24 12:27
Technology and typography unite in this series of digital letterforms designed with electronics in mind. A graphic and motion designer based in rio de janeiro, has envisioned 26 characters based on brands from apple to zenith. the initials reflect some of the best known characteristics of each company, creating a palette of letters for tech enthusiasts everywhere.vinicius araujo Araújo based t...
