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Priestmangoode Reveals Initial Concept for Hyperloop Transportation at London Design Festival
[Design]
2017/09/20 11:50
During the 2017 london design festival, leading design consultancy priestmangoode reveals the behind-the-scenes workings of its design process at design frontiers at somerset house. The exhibition featured at the event, ‘please don’t feed the designers’ is a recreation of the innovative company’s design studio. a leading team of designers, from product to materials specialists and virtual r...
(PDF) Mckinsey - What Southeast Asia Needs to Become a Major Player in Artificial Intelligence
[Business]
2017/09/19 11:08
For artificial intelligence to take hold in Southeast Asia, the region needs more defined business use cases, better data ecosystems, and more concerted talent-development efforts.Artificial intelligence (AI) is still in its early stages in Southeast Asia: the use of machine learning—an AI application in which machines are given access to data to learn from—is just beginning to have an impact...
A Shape-Shifting Car ? Patent Filings Point to Auto Industry’s Future
[Tech]
2017/09/19 11:08
Car makers feeling heat from Silicon Valley are boosting patent filings for self-driving vehicles and ride sharing.[A rendering of the Toyota Concept-i self-driving vehicle mock-up. PHOTO: TOYOTA]Car fanatics wanting a glimpse at the auto industry’s next big thing used to flock to auto shows. Now, many of them flip through online patent filings.Auto makers, pressured to keep up with Silicon Va...
(Video) UNIQLO's Chatbot "UNIQLO IQ" Started Trial Operation
[Business]
2017/09/19 11:08
UNIQLO will start testing the chat bot. Announced that it is planning to start trial operation of "UNIQLO IQ" chat type shopping service developed by UNIQLO on 20th September 2017.It is targeted at 2,000 UNIQLO members, after the pilot operation, this chatbot function will be installed in UNIQLO application in 2018."UNIQLO IQ" is a service that allows you to interactively select items using the...
(Video) The World’s First Vending Machine Where You Pay with a Dialect
[Business]
2017/09/19 11:08
Coca-Cola made a vending machine that allows a person to speak a phrase in a specific Swedish dialect to win a drink.People in the same country who share the same language may not say things the same way, as a local dialect on one side of the country sounds different compared to one from another region. Sweden is known for its dialects, so its Coca-Cola branch decided to tap into them by creati...
Air Filter for Strollers Creates Clean Air Cloud to Protect Babies
[Product]
2017/09/19 11:08
A new air filter has been developed that is designed to create a barrier of clean air directly in front of a child’s face.This is part of a series of articles that looks at entrepreneurs hoping to get their ideas off the ground through crowdfunding. At the time of writing, each of these innovations is currently seeking funding.Scientific studies have shown that those most at risk from air poll...
Could Spiders Produce The Next Super-Strong Material ?
[Tech]
2017/09/19 11:07
Spiders that ingested graphene and carbon nanotubes produced silk that was tougher than Kevlar – potentially paving the way for a new class of high-performing bio-enhanced materials.The natural strength and toughness of spider silk makes it one of the most complex and fascinating materials on earth. And with a little chemical enhancement, researchers just created a version that’s three times...
Eaze is Moving Into Recreational Marijuana Delivery with $27M in New Funding
[Investing]
2017/09/19 11:07
The cannabis industry has lit up in the last year, including weed delivery startup Eaze, which just raised $27 million in Series B financing and claims a 300 percent year-over-year increase in gross sales.But the weed delivery startup has come under scrutiny recently for burning through at least $1 million in cash per month. In contrast, other software-based pot delivery startups like Meadow ha...
Samsung Dex Book - Dock Stock and Two Smoking Gadgets
[Design]
2017/09/19 11:07
The Dex Book attempts to do the phone-docking-into-laptop trick. So. Samsung’s pretty innovative, but doesn’t get enough credit for it. Samsung managed to crack facial recognition first, it even managed to pull off mass-produced edge-to-edge displays long before the Essential phone or the iPhone X… So, looking at the Dex Book concept, I wouldn’t be surprised seeing the words Samsung written...
