The Omoshiro Block designed by Japanese architecture model company Triad.The Omoshiro Block is a note pad that unveils itself as it gets used revealing an architecture miniature hidden inside. Using laser-cutting technology, what appears as a regular cube of paper note cards eventually turns into an intricate miniature model. These unique note pads are designed by Japanese architecture model co...

In Tesla’s final years as a private company, things got pretty hectic.As we showed in Part 1: Tesla’s Origin Story, the launch of the Roadster was a public relations success, but it created all kinds of problems internally. There were massive cost overruns, a revolving door of CEOs, layoffs, and even a narrow escape from bankruptcy.Fortunately, by 2010 the company was able to forget these tro...

Forward-looking solutions for tomorrow’s leading asset management firms. Shifting buyer behaviors, disruptive technologies, and fiduciary-driven regulations are changing the asset management industry. In order to manage these challenges, leading asset management firms must develop and implement innovative and effective solutions now to stay ahead of the curve.Asset management firms have long b...

The technology would use sensors and wireless communication for collision avoidance with UAVs.Amazon has already patented a way for unmanned aerial vehicles to talk to you. Now, the company is looking at tech to allow drones to talk to each other, too.A newly granted patent creates a “universal identification system for UAVs” that would allow drones to transmit “identifying certificates” in...

Korea has gone from an afterthought in the cryptocurrency markets to one of its major hubs in a matter of months. Crypto trading has grown so feverish that the government raided the country’s major exchanges to check their books—and to cool down the red-hot trading activity.The lynchpin in the Korean market is an exchange called Bithumb, which has raked in cash as its customers have swelled i...

Israel-based OrCam unveiled its futuristic artificial vision device, OrCam MyEye 2.0, to the public at CES 2018. Designed for people with sight impairments, such as blindness or partial blindness, the device is able to transcribe many things that it’s seeing to the wearer. MyEye 2.0 packs an unbelievable number of features in a little shell that is the size of a small match box that attaches t...

The financial-services industry has a greater share than technology companies.While almost 60 percent of all blockchain-related patents filed in the U.S. belong to blockchain-specific companies, financial services have become more aggressive with a greater share than traditional technology firms. Bank of America Corp. has applied for or received more patents than any other major bank or tech co...

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based rHEALTH received Europe’s CE mark to test for a blood marker for the bleeding disease hemophilia A using chemistry compatible with its portable device, the company reported today. The approval is rHEALTH’s first regulatory clearance. Imagine a portable device in your home that, with a drop of blood from a finger prick, could tell you instantly your blood cell co...

Video games software/hardware combined could be in the $165 billion to $170 billion range this year (if mobile outperforms again), and reach between $230 billion and $235 billion by 2022 if strong performance continues.That might make games software/hardware bigger in 5 years than 150 countries’ individual GDPs today (somewhere between Vietnam and Finland). Games software alone could drive aro...