Can a machine know people better than they know themselves? To answer this question, we created an interactive installation, the Cognitive Photo Booth, where IBM's AI computing system, Watson, created data-driven portraits of people.Our data is who we are. It's an echo of our behavior. A record of our emotion. In the Cognitive Photo Booth – a key attraction at the AI-inspired Art with Watson p...

We’ve all felt it: a sudden desire to travel, sparked by some exotic scene that’s playing across the silver screen. What’s more intriguing than the prospect of a real visit to the far-flung geographic gems that movies reveal? At HotelsCombined, we’ve got all your REAL travel needs covered – even to destinations you’ve only seen on film. In fact, we set out to uncover the hottest spots for...

A team of engineers at the University of Antwerp in The Netherlands has developed a 3D-printed robotic arm that can act as a sign language translator for deaf people.Sign language interpreters are often in short supply, and so this research team set out to develop a low cost automated system that can translate text into sign language. “A deaf person who needs to appear in court, a deaf person...

Autonomous vehicles can add a new member to their ranks—the self-driving wheelchair. This summer, two robotic wheelchairs made headlines: one at a Singaporean hospital and another at a Japanese airport.The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, or SMART, developed the former, first deployed in Singapore’s Changi General Hospital in September 2016, where it successfully navigated...

My Beauty Matches is known for being the world’s first personalized beauty product recommendation and price comparison website using proprietary machine learning and AI technology. Founded by Nidhima Kohli, My Beauty Matches and its Beauty Matching Engine technology allows users to compare prices on over 400,000 products from over 3,500 brands. But its unique selling point is that it offers co...

As all marketers are well aware, today’s consumers are more educated than ever, largely because they have access to more information than ever—and that’s only going to continue. So when it comes time to shop, consumers are putting that knowledge to use, and they’re making their selections carefully and for specific purposes. They’re also willing to pay for products that meet their specific...

Urban Tour – X (UT-X) is a futuristic concept transportation for tourist district. It’s an urban vehicle where tourists can easily lease and use to cruise around certain areas. User can ride this vehicle half standing position, that’s what makes the vehicle design so compact, reducing waste of space. The idea here is to allow users to maintain original walk point of view. The steering wheel...

Even as growth slows, there’s a sizable, and sophisticated, pool of luxury shoppers in China. But brands need to take a new approach to keep them interested.With luxury consumption dropping in 2016 to its lowest level since 2009, much attention has been focused on one of the biggest forces in global luxury spending: Chinese consumers. As the Chinese economy slows, and growth in luxury consumpt...

MoviePass allows subscribers to see movies in theaters for a low monthly fee, following in Netflix's footsteps.Netflix has more people watching movies and TV at home than ever before, but one of the company’s founders wants to get people off the couch and out the door to watch films the old-fashioned way: at the theater. Rich Lowe, Netflix co-founder and former president of Redbox, certainly k...