Barn Meets Loft in Savvy Energy Positive Home Design
[Design]
2015/09/07 11:30
The Solar Barn Loft is described as compact yet spacious, with an open-plan layout that has the potential for a variety of different interpretations.Inspired by the New England barn and the New York loft, Architect Paul Lukez has penned a cleverly compact home design that uses natural ventilation, "super insulation" and passive and active solar systems to minimize energy use. he angle of the ro...
Understanding the Fundamentals of the 3D Bioprinting Space
[Tech]
2015/09/07 11:29
For medicine, bioprinting is a necessity and an inevitability. The demand for organs will undoubtedly continue to climb with the global median age. Yet what hurdles lie in the way of creating a renewable supply? One major engineering obstacle is properly seeding and feeding the culture in order to create a functional organ. This is because complex tissues are composed of many different types of...
Ground Wakeboard Is A Combination of A Fuel Cell Car and Hoverboard
[Design]
2015/09/07 11:29
Ground Wakeboard is a conceptual project that inspired by the idea where Toyota works together with Yamaha, two popular transportation makers. The concept car is a fuel cell crossover Toyota “Cross Cruiser” that pulls Yamaha “Hover Board”. It’s a unique concept, perhaps dedicated to people who love extreme sports to make their life even more exciting.Cross Cruiser is a fuel cell concept ca...
(PDF) The Return of Corporate Strategy in Banking
[Business]
2015/09/06 11:10
For many years, corporate strategy languished in banking circles. During the go-go 1990s and most of the 2000s, too many bankers pursued indiscriminate growth, had a broad appetite for risk and diversified their portfolios without worrying enough about controlling costs or staking out distinctive positions in the eyes of customers.Then, the 2008 financial crisis caused an abrupt about-face from...
Wacom Bamboo Spark Creates Digital Copies of Written Notes
[Product]
2015/09/06 11:09
Pressing a button to the left of the folio wirelessly transfers the notes or doodles on the paper to a companion app.If you want a smartpen – which digitizes your handwriting and transmits it to a computer or mobile device – you currently have your choice of models including the Neo Smartpen N2, the LiveScribe Sky or the Orée Stylograph. All of those pens, however, require you to use special...
Facebook's Growth May Be Slowing, But Americans are Still Obsessed with It
[Consumer]
2015/09/06 11:08
Facebook's usage growth may have plateaued over the past 3 years, but Americans still appear to be huge fans of the world's largest social media site.According to stats from the Pew Research Center, charted for us by Statista, Facebook is the runaway leader in user engagement among all social media sites in the US. The percentage of US Facebook users who said they logged in every day reached 70...
(Patent) Contact Lens Augments More Than Your Vision
[Tech]
2015/09/06 11:07
A Magic Leap patent could put a patch of data display at the forefront of our focus.Wearable and optical trendsetter Magic Leap recently published a stack of 100 patents they’ve recently applied for. In the stack was a contact lens built for augmented reality.Augmented reality describes technologies that add information to a human being’s normal senses. A CD or MP3 audio tour at a museum is a...
Wristband Reminds You to Move When You’re Inactive - The Polar Loop 2
[Product]
2015/09/06 11:06
The Polar Loop 2 detects daily activity and measures steps, distance, calories and sleep with accurate, individualized algorithms.Polar has introduced the follow-up to its popular Polar Loop activity tracker, which monitors the wearer’s daily activity, workouts and sleep. The Polar Loop 2 is designed to be worn 24/7 and gently vibrates to remind the user to move if they’ve been sitting for a...
Intel Pledges $50M in Quantum Computing Push to Solve Big Problems
[Investing]
2015/09/06 11:05
Intel today announced plans to invest $50 million over the next ten years as part of a quantum computing push to help solve problems such as “large-scale financial analysis and more effective drug development.”But despite the ambitions and huge cost of the project, company vice president Mike Mayberry admits that “a fully functioning quantum computer is at least a dozen years away.”The mone...