If someone slipped you a $10,000 check and told you to invest it, what would you do with the money? With no strings attached, there is a wide variety of ways that you could deploy that cash.You could look at it as a one-time windfall that could shore up your personal balance sheet, or you could go at it much more aggressively. It’s money that you didn’t expect to receive, so why not throw it...

A new campaign makes museum art more accessible to the visually impaired using haptic VR gloves to touch sculptures.A campaign created by The National Gallery of Prague lets visitors with visual impairments experience sculpture art. The ‘Touching Masterpieces’ campaign uses haptic virtual reality gloves to perceive art through the sense of touch. This new design offers digital accessibility t...

BMW is joining the growing list of automakers that are experimenting with different ownership models by launching a new monthly subscription service that gives customers access to a fleet of BMWs for a set fee.The new app-based service, dubbed Access, will launch first in Nashville before BMW decides to bring it to other markets, according to Bloomberg. For $2,000 a month, users can choose betw...

According to Nielsen’s second-quarter 2017 Comparable Metrics Report, 93% of U.S. adults 18 and older listen to radio every week—more than those watching television or using a smartphone, TV connected device, tablet or PC.We are in the midst of an exciting time for audio, with more and more ways to listen to information and entertainment. AM/FM radio, on-demand streaming, podcasts, digital ra...

Dolphin Alarm's aquasonic swimming pool alarm system alerts you the instant a non-swimmer enters a pool.If you have a small child and a swimming pool, then it's at least a little likely that you may sometimes worry about said child falling into said pool. Well, it was with that concern in mind that British electrical engineer John Barstead created the Dolphin Alarm.Here's how it works …When sm...

Robot vacuums have come a long way but the AIRBOT takes things to a whole new vertical… literally! The hybrid design includes an autonomous floor vacuum in addition to an air purifier. Since it will be scanning every inch of your apartment anyway, it only makes sense that the floor vacuum detects the indoor air quality from room to room. Once it has scanned the areas for free radicals, polluta...

Organizations are no longer judged only for their financial performance, or even the quality of their products or services. Rather, they are being evaluated on the basis of their impact on society at large—transforming them from business enterprises into social enterprises.THE 2018 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report showcases a profound shift facing business leaders worldwide: The rap...

Auris Health Unveils the FDA-Cleared Monarch Platform, Ushering in a New Era of Medical Intervention. Company’s First Application of Its Innovative Flexible Robotics Platform Is Bronchoscopy.Auris Health, Inc. ("Auris Health"), formerly known as Auris Surgical Robotics, Inc., today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the company’s Monarch™ Platform, ushering in a n...

Beijing-based Bitmain selling new hardware for Ethereum mining. Competition may hurt demand for chipmakers’ GPUs, analysts say.Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Nvidia Corp. are feeling the heat from a Chinese adversary that they never imagined would become a competitor.The chipmakers, which have seen a sales boost as cryptocurrency miners bought up their graphics processing units to solve compl...