TREND REPORTS
(Patent) Google Wants to Pair Your Keys with Your Phone
[Tech]
2015/06/22 11:23
A new Google patent published today describes a system that allows you to pair frequently lost or left-behind items like your wallet or your glasses to be paired with your mobile device.If the device senses that it’s leaving the house without those devices coming along, it gives the user an alert.The mobile device might connect to the paired objects using short-range wireless technologies like...
Solar-Powered Device Lets First Responders Communicate Without Signal
[Product]
2015/06/22 11:23
Reachi is a solar-powered device that can send signals from person to person even when phone lines and power go down, using a mesh network.In the wake of natural disasters, communication between first response units can mean the difference between life and death. But as we saw during the Nepal earthquake, these situations are prone to power and internet losses, leaving victims dangerously isola...
(Video) This Undulating Cabinet Is Like Joy Division's Album Cover Come To Life
[Design]
2015/06/22 11:23
If you ever wanted to own a cabinet that channels the cover art of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, here's your chance: the Wave Cabinet, a sideboard created by New York artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz, is a piece that collapses and expands like a waveform made out of wood.Made out of baltic birch in both white lacquered and unlacquered finishes, the Wave Cabinet consists of roughly a...
(PDF) The State of The Cloud Industry 2015
[Business]
2015/06/21 11:10
Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter just published a stunning presentation on the state of the cloud industry. In the report, he identifies some interesting trends and metrics that will help you understand how fast the space is growing.Over the past decade, cloud services — the term used to describe things like software and infrastructure enabled over the web, instead of physical installa...
The Sony Talkman Smartphone
[Design]
2015/06/21 11:09
From the designer of the uber-hip Macintosh Phone comes another tribute to devices past. The Sony Talkman Smartphone takes inspiration from the brand’s iconic 1979 Walkman. Although the concept sports a 5″ screen & has dimensions comparable to today’s flagship models, it sets itself apart from the more “minimalist” competition through the use of chunky & tactile buttons within an a...
Global Wearable Device Market Share
[Business]
2015/06/21 11:08
Here's what $6 billion Fitbit really needs to worry about (FIT)Fitbit finally went public on Thursday, opening up nearly 50% on its first day of trading. It is now worth about $6 billion.With $745.4 million in sales last year, Fitbit is the clear leader in the wearable market. In the first quarter of 2015 alone, it shipped roughly 3.9 million devices, which accounted for an industry-leading 34....
Tennis Court Boasts Ocean Life as Spectators
[Design]
2015/06/21 11:07
Following the Dubai tradition of dreaming big, 8+8 Concept Studio imagines a curved glass dome that may house tomorrow's Wimbledons.Any athletic stakes would feel all the more grandiose and royal under the ocean-filtered light of design firm 8+8 Concept Studio‘s bold undertaking: an underwater tennis facility fit for the imagination-shattering dimensions we’ve come to expect from Dubai’s amb...
(Patent) Microsoft Issues Patent for 3D Depth Scanning Camera & Software
[Tech]
2015/06/21 11:06
Microsoft, the American multinational tech giant was issued with a patent for a technology which generates 3d models of real life objects through a simple scanning process with Microsoft’s static depth camera.Users of Microsoft’s 3d scanning software could rotate an object in front of Microsoft’s static depth camera, which will then create a holistic, detailed and accurate 3d scans of object...
3D-Printed Objects Created Entirely from Wood Cellulose
[Tech]
2015/06/21 11:05
The same material that gives trees their structural integrity can now be used to 3D print tiny chairs, electrical circuits, and other objects.The 3D printing revolution brings with it a harmful side effect: the special inks that it uses are derived (for the most part) from environmentally-unfriendly processes involving fossil fuels and toxic byproducts. But now scientists at Chalmers University...
