Google held its annual hardware event Wednesday, at which it unveiled its newest Pixel and Google Home, among other products. But, it was an item revealed late in the presentation that might have been the most mind-blowing.Google's Pixel Buds are essentially the company's answer to Apple's AirPods. They're earbuds that connect to a smartphone--in this case, the Pixel--via Bluetooth. At $159, th...

Science makes fact out of fiction, changing our lives through new technologies. But it’s a long road from invention to adoption. Only when a technology becomes affordable and ubiquitous enough can it usually begin to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.We are approaching this tipping point in biofabrication, the science of using living organisms to build with biology and make eve...

That whole Air Umbrella thing never really took off because the tech just isn’t quite there yet. But now there’s a new design utilizing air and it’s dominating the staying-dry game!It’s called the Air Shield Umbrella and it’s an inflatable design without any wires or flimsy rods that will break in the wind. Instead, a pump built in to the handle that inflates the supporting structure of th...

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Our 2017 survey of Chinese auto consumers shows they’re demanding more from carmakers. How can companies keep up with shifts in this must-win market?After registering its lowest growth since 2011, China’s automotive market rebounded strongly in 2016 (Exhibit 1). Car sales jumped 20 percent, nearly twice the rate of increase in 2015. Much of this vigorous expansion resulted from the country’s...

The future of typing may no longer include a keyboard. This week, Microsoft’s newly granted patent, titled “Holographic keyboard display,” describes what the future of text input could look like. Using a virtual keyboard plane to sense a user’s inputs, the AR/VR system will function like a normal keyboard and read users’ gestures to simulate typing.The grant mentions gaming as a first appl...

When a new iPhone is available to pick up in stores, we usually see photos of lines stretching blocks long, as customers around the world proudly walk out with their shiny new rectangles. But today, as the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and Apple Watch Series 3 hit the shelves, the usual lines were few and far between. While some stores—sorry, “Town Squares”—had large lines, some had none at all, The Ve...

When the first printed books with illustrations started to appear in the 1470s in the German city of Augsburg, wood engravers rose up in protest. Worried about their jobs, they literally stopped the presses. In fact, their skills turned out to be in higher demand than before: somebody had to illustrate the Growing number of books.Fears about the impact of technology on jobs have resurfaced peri...

Disneyland in California is the most instagrammed tourist atttraction in the United States. According to online tourism portal TravelBird, 14.6 million hashtags make it the number one spot. Florida has two well-instagrammed destinations: Walt Disney World and South Beach. There's a little generational bias in this data because, "Instagram is a barometer of where Millennials are travelling", as...