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On-Demand Staffing Startup HourlyNerd Lands $22M Series C
[Investing]
2016/07/06 11:09
HourlyNerd, a Boston-based startup, aspires to be more than an on-demand staffing service for skilled employees. It wants to be a full-service platform for large companies to change the way they think about employees.“If you think about a company today, it’s structured in the same way as 100 years ago,” says company co-CEO and co-founder Rob Biederman. HourlyNerd sees a future where companie...
Futuristic Concept Smartwatches for Smart Cars
[Design]
2016/07/06 11:09
Andrea Ponti made an attempt to design smartwatches especially designed to be integrated with smart cars. There are concepts: Smartwatch A and Smartwatch B, both are dedicated to work with smart platforms such as phones, tablets, computers, including smart cars. This integration makes it possible to link smart objects with a web of connectivity, this creates better connection between the driver...
(PDF) Accenture : Pissed-off Consumers Can Cost Indian Companies Over $400 Billion
[Consumer]
2016/07/05 10:52
Indian customers are among the most unforgiving in the world, and they’re costing some companies a lot of money.Nearly 88% of Indian consumers have switched brands or service providers in the past year, frustrated by poor service, according to a survey conducted by consulting firm Accenture. Almost 25,000 people in 33 countries were interviewed. Indians topped the list when surveyed on their w...
(Video) Orangina's Ingenious Upside-Down Can Forces You to Mix Up the Pulp
[Design]
2016/07/05 10:47
BETC's packaging solution to the beverage's unusual problem.Lots of Orangina's marketing is about shaking up bottles of the stuff—to mix up the pulp, which makes the carbonated citrus beverage taste better."An advertising guy told me there was a weakness, and we're going to make a strength out of this weakness by saying, 'The bottle needs to be shaken,' " Orangina's founder, Jean-Claude Beton,...
Fatal Tesla Self-Driving Car Crash Reminds Us That Robots Aren't Perfect
[Tech]
2016/07/05 10:46
On 7 May, a Tesla Model S was involved in a fatal accident in Florida. At the time of the accident, the vehicle was driving itself, using its Autopilot system. The system didn’t stop for a tractor-trailer attempting to turn across a divided highway, and the Tesla collided with the trailer. In a statement, Tesla Motors said this is the “first known fatality in just over 130 million miles [210...
If You're After Off-Grid Luxury, This Waterlovt Houseboat May Float Your Boat
[Design]
2016/07/05 10:46
The Waterlovt is described as "taking the concept of a houseboat to a whole new level". A new floating home combines the United Arab Emirates' (UAE's) penchant for the finer things in life with Dutch maritime engineering expertise. The Waterlovt is aimed at providing its owners with all the bells and whistles of a luxury apartment, the serenity and freedom of a waterborne lifestyle and the auto...
Euro 2016 Foes Spread the Love, Not HIV, in Risqué French AIDS Awareness Ads
[Business]
2016/07/05 10:45
TBWA\Paris' latest campaign for AIDES, the HIV and AIDS awareness group, features naked fans painted to represent the flags of their countries, appearing in pairs and post-coitus—which we know, because paint smears, as Germany and Sweden so artfully demonstrate below: The campaign, labeled "Make Love, Not War" and photographed by Eric Traoré, has a two-pronged message—to remind people to pro...
MIT's Swarm Chip Architecture Boosts Multi-Core CPUs
[Tech]
2016/07/05 10:45
New chip design makes parallel programs run many times faster and requires one-tenth the code.Computer chips have stopped getting faster. For the past 10 years, chips’ performance improvements have come from the addition of processing units known as cores.In theory, a program on a 64-core machine would be 64 times as fast as it would be on a single-core machine. But it rarely works out that wa...
Smart Tech for Mommies and Daddies To-Be - Thread
[Design]
2016/07/05 10:45
Being pregnant can be overwhelming and even scary… but knowledge is power when it comes to taking care of baby! That’s the idea behind Thread, a smart system of devices that aim to connect and educate parents in the prenatal stages.The first of 3 devices is wearable tech in the form of a health sensor that analyzes the fetus sleeping state and even emotions based on movement. These metrics ca...
