A designer named Adam Pickard has shown us a better way. He imagined that Ikea’s instructions were rendered in augmented reality–much like the company allows you to preview a couch in your living room today with its AR app.We’ve all been there. Blood pumping. Face red. Body exhausted. It’s 15 minutes into building a piece of Ikea furniture, and we’re one diaeresis away from throwing the he...

If you’re looking to spend money at an auction, the smart bet is to go with a piece of furniture rather than a painting. The market for design is booming with average sales prices increasing by 35% from 2016, according to the latest DeTnk Collectible Design Report. The annual survey also indicates a 17% overall growth from last year and that 70% of lots offered were sold.DeTnk’s report is the...

If you’ve studied the history of markets, you know that sentiment can turn on a dime.Whether it is an unexpected wake-up call like the collapse of Lehman Brothers, or simply the popping of a bubble that’s blown too big, the tides can shift in a matter of hours or days.No one knows this better than the world’s most elite investors – and that’s why billionaires like Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio...

Another huge financing round is coming in for an AI company today, this time for a startup called Mythic getting a fresh $40 million as it appears massive deals are closing left and right in the sector.Mythic particularly focuses on the inference side of AI operations — basically making the calculation on the spot for something based off an extensively trained model. The chips are designed to...

Researchers combine 3D-printed hydrogels and origami to create an electric eel-inspired power source.Animal-inspired technology has gone electric. These brightly colored, 3D-printed gels have the potential to create up to 110 volts of electricity in an instant, similar to the electric eel.Rows of small hydrogel dots are packed with positively and negatively charged ions that combine together to...

Priestmangoode — a name worth noting in the brave realm of transportation design — launched its vision of the near-future urban ecosystem. in summary, there would be many drones assigned to many tasks, solving many problems. They would deliver packages via autonomous barges that act as mobile distribution points and charging stations. for this brave, new world, priestmangoode has developed a...

Amazon may be taking the plunge into banking, and by any estimation, it’s a game changer for the industry. News reports that it seeks a bank for a cobranded, mobile-friendly checking-account-like product initially targeted to young adults in the US follow earlier moves into financial products. The company has a cobranded credit card offered by Chase, and Amazon Cash allows customers to deposit...

Award winning 3D printer filament manufacturer Polymaker has partnered with Italian car manufacturer XEV to make 3D printed low-speed electric vehicles (LSEVs).While XEV’s LSEVs aren’t the first ever 3D printed cars, the partners believe that this is the first example of additive manufacturing vehicles at scale.Stanley Lu, CEO of XEV, provided 3D Printing Industry with more information on the...

We analyzed 10 years of earnings transcripts from Google and found that the company mentions YouTube more than Search, Android, or any of its newer initiatives.Google first started as a search engine in 1998 with the intention of making internet information more organized and accessible for everyone. Since that time, the company has evolved into a multinational conglomerate, now operating under...