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MUJI Unveils Trio of Tiny Prefab Homes That can Pop Up Almost Anywhere
[Design]
2015/11/12 11:50
Lovers of MUJI’s minimalist Japanese aesthetic will swoon over the retail chain’s latest project: Muji Hut, a series of tiny prefab homes befitting the simple yet chic brand. Recently unveiled for Tokyo’s annual Design Touch event at Midtown Garden, the collection of micro-homes are designed to explore what it means to live a more sustainable lifestyle through minimalism. MUJI created the Mu...
(Video) Stanford Engineers Develop a Star Trek-Style Tricorder to Detect Cancer
[Tech]
2015/11/12 11:50
A new technology has promise to safely find buried plastic explosives and maybe even spot fast-growing tumors. The technique involves the clever interplay of microwaves and ultrasound to develop a detector like the Star Trek tricorder.Stanford engineers are using microwaves and ultrasound to create a safe and portable way to detect hidden objects.When Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy needs to diagnose...
World’s First Industrial-Scale Carbon Capture - Climeworks
[Tech]
2015/11/12 11:50
Climeworks has developed a scalable atmospheric carbon capture that can store CO2 for reuse as energy.We recently wrote about a Belgian company converting climate change related byproducts into ethanol that is sold on as fuel. Switzerland-based Climeworks is going a step further by capturing CO2 from the air for commercial uses.Climeworks have developed a filter that binds CO2 by direct air cap...
Self Healing Tires that Say No to Punctures is the Next Best Thing in the Auto Arena
[Tech]
2015/11/12 11:50
It’s autonomous with everything these days in automobile industry. Autonomous vehicles, auto-climatic control, auto-parking, auto-wipers - vendors have fetched the industry to such a stage where they can invite even a guy unexposed to driving to take control of a car through long rides.Regardless of what they do, the vehicle can take care of its own for almost anything, except for one thing -...
Intel Backs $8M Project to Open Body Labs’ Body Scan Database to Developers
[Investing]
2015/11/12 11:50
What if a fitness app could show you the way your body changes week to week using a 3D body scan? That’s the sort of mobile app that Body Labs CEO Bill O’Farrell is hoping to inspire, with an API that gives developers access to a growing arsenal of body scans.To build out that API, his company just picked up $8 million in investor funding in a round led by Intel Capital.The technology it take...
Faces Sucked By Smartphone - SUR-FAKE Series
[Design]
2015/11/12 11:49
The fascinating SUR-FAKE series by Antoine Geiger shows faces sucked by smartphones and screens.As people take the subway, walk to work and sit in bed, it’s likely to find them in a semi-trance-like state, staring vacantly at their shining smartphone screens. seized by the hazy glow of their devices, groups of tourists in museums and couples at restaurants seem more engrossed by digital object...
(Infographic) U.S. Economy at a Glance
[Investing]
2015/11/12 10:52
We live in a globalized world where virtually all countries interact with each other. As a result the economy has become increasingly complex. Despite this (or perhaps just because of it), it is important to know what is going on in the world around you. After all, well-informed citizens make better decisions. However, being an informed citizen is easier said than done these days. We are confro...
(PDF) Mckinsey - 4 Fundamentals of Workplace Automation
[Business]
2015/11/11 11:54
As the automation of physical and knowledge work advances, many jobs will be redefined rather than eliminated—at least in the short term.The potential of artificial intelligence and advanced robotics to perform tasks once reserved for humans is no longer reserved for spectacular demonstrations by the likes of IBM’s Watson, Rethink Robotics’ Baxter, DeepMind, or Google’s driverless car. Just...
(Video) Prieto Battery Lasts 10h with 5 Minutes Charging
[Tech]
2015/11/11 11:54
Prieto have redesigned the traditional lithium battery to create a non-toxic alternative that lasts longer, charges quicker, and can be made into any shape.With the growing ubiquity of smart tech, the fear of a dying battery will soon be a thing of the past. Prieto’s redesign of the traditional rechargeable lithium ion batteries used in smartphones and laptops is promising revolutionary batter...
