New research suggests high-testosterone traders earn lower returns.PROFESSIONAL investors are often portrayed in popular culture as aggressive, hyper-competitive alpha males: think Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film “Wall Street”, or the “Big Swinging Dicks” in Michael Lewis’s “Liar’s Poker”. New research suggests, however, that these fictional characters’ aggressive traits may not be so ef...

The ploota is a sensor controlled swimming safety device that sits around your neck. both compact and reusable, unlike most life-jackets the ploota can be worn underwater. swimming, snorkeling or deep sea diving, the device can be triggered when you need to be brought back up to the surface.1/50th the size of a regular foam-based life jacket, the ploota is compact, taking up 50 times less space...

Early pledges of US$195 are still available for the Mercury jacket on Kickstarter.We've seen a number of smart home thermostats over the past few years that learn just how toasty you like your living room, but these won't do much good when you venture out the front door. Boston apparel company Ministry of Supply wants to bring this kind of personalized climate control to people on the move, lau...

The world needs infrastructure, and the world needs it soon.It’s not just about replacing aging pieces of infrastructure like bridges and roads – it’s also about developing modern infrastructure that enables new technology, faster communications, and our ability to use, move, and transmit energy from renewables and natural gas.Today’s infographic comes to us from Miller Howard Investments a...

The sensor can measure heart activity, muscle movement, sleep quality, swallowing ability, and patterns of speech.Over the years, we've seen all manner of innovations designed to assist the rehabilitation of stroke patients, from adapted Nintendo Wii games to anti-inflammatory drugs, and from stem cell treatments to robotic gloves. Though the idea of using wearable sensors to track patients' pr...

A Cat Thing came about as a real-life solution for the designers’ newly adopted cats. The Room Collection has an endless array of possible configurations. There’s no shortage of ingenious ideas for cat furniture, ranging from the modern to the sculptural to the whimsical, but this latest creation gets major props for not only being modular and sustainable, but also personal.Designed by a Taip...

All countries will feel the impact of automation, but at different speeds and in different ways. In this podcast, McKinsey Global Institute looks at its likely impact in China, Europe, and India.New technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation are reshaping the workplace globally. All countries will feel the impact in some way, shape, or form. In this episode for the McKinsey Glo...

Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne is to spearhead the development of an automated, 3D printed repair service for cars with the Australian, not-for-profit Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) and industrial automation firm Tradiebot Industries.Funded by a sum of $1,264,695 AUD (approx. $994 thousand USD), project ‘Repair Bot’ will run through 2019. The goa...

The Internet of Things connects people, places, and products and, in so doing, it offers opportunities of value creation and capture for a full panoply of stakeholders. Organizations, however, should be careful in focusing on IoT initiatives that solve real business problems and create real business value―not just connecting stuff for the sake of connecting stuff.TODAY, it seems easy to imagin...