TREND REPORTS
Kanga Newborn Resuscitation Kit for Developing Countries
[Design]
2017/09/10 10:04
Kanga is a Newborn Resuscitation Kit, designed specially for developing countries who usually don’t have access the standard kit. There are more than a million babies die due to the lack of oxygen at birth, simple interventions can help these babies’ lives.Kanga by Darja Wendel is designed to guide caregiver during resuscitation, it helps to reduce time to ventilation yet allowing to keep mot...
(Infographic) Wearable Technology
[Tech]
2017/09/10 10:03
As technology becomes more and more integrated into our lives, our clothes, accessories and bodies are reflecting our new reality.What comes next and where will it lead ? Infographic : https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Wearable-Technology-edit.png[futurism]
(PDF) BCG & MIT Sloan - Reshaping Business with Artificial Intelligence
[Business]
2017/09/07 11:39
Artificial intelligence has become one of the biggest technological developments in business in recent years, but the field is still largely shrouded in uncertainty. While expectations run sky-high, what are businesses actually doing now? [click to enlarge]A new report by BCG and MIT’s Sloan Management Review aims to demystify AI in business and take stock of current industry adoption. The rep...
(Video) CalTech : Smartphone Using Its Camera Can Assess Heart Health
[Tech]
2017/09/07 11:39
Effectiveness of the app, which measures pressure waveforms of blood flow through the cardiovascular system, demonstrated in clinical trials. Want to know how healthy your heart is? Now there's an app for that.In a proof-of-concept clinical trial, engineers at Caltech, Huntington Medical Research Institute, and USC have demonstrated that the camera on your smartphone can noninvasively provide d...
Jaguar Land Rover Sayer : Futuristic Steering Wheel and Reliable Companion
[Design]
2017/09/07 11:38
Jaguar Land Rover will introduce futuristic steering wheel at Tech Fest on September 7. It’ll reveal intelligent and connected steering wheel that lives in your home and becomes your reliable companion. Called Sayer, it’s a concept steering wheel that features voice-activated artificial intelligence (AI), it is able to carry out different kinds of tasks including alerting your exclusive membe...
Stanford's Electricity-Free System Cuts Cooling Costs by Beaming Heat Into Space
[Tech]
2017/09/07 11:38
Stanford scientists cooled water without electricity by sending excess heat where it won’t be noticed – space. The specialized optical surfaces they developed are a major step toward applying this technology to air conditioning and refrigeration.Radiative sky cooling systems use reflective panels to emit heat into space, potentially cooling a building in the process. Heat naturally flows from...
Lego Grew Too Fast for Its Own Good and Now It’s Paying The Price
[Business]
2017/09/07 11:38
Lego, the world-beating Danish toymaker, reported an unexpected drop in profit, down 3% in the first half of 2017, to 3.4 billion Danish kroner ($543 million). The decline comes after full-year sales growth last year was the slowest in nearly 10 years, ending an outstanding run of double-digit increases. Revenue fell 5% in the first half.As a result of declining sales and profit, the company wi...
(Video) Augmented Reality for the Future of Dentistry - Kapanu
[Tech]
2017/09/07 11:38
The company, Kapanu, is a spin-off of Swiss technical university ETH Zurich; CEO Roland Mörzinger collaborated with Disney Research to create an augmented reality engine for medical purposes, and dentistry was chosen as a good first application.For someone getting major dental work or reconstructive surgery, it can be hard to visualize what they’ll look like afterwards. You can do casts and m...
Sony Backs Acutronic Robotics’ Hardware Robot Operating System
[Investing]
2017/09/07 11:37
Sony is investing in Acutronic Robotics‘ Series A round, via its Sony Innovation Fund. Sony will also adopt Acutronic’s Hardware Robot Operating System (H-ROS), for use in its own robotics division, the company says.This funding follows investment by DARPA in Acutronic’s platform, which aims to become an industry standard for robotics components from across hardware and software providers.Ac...
