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Honey I Printed a Lamp
[Design]
2015/02/23 11:03
2015 is the year of the 3D printer. You’ll pretty much be able to print anything soon. But what about the poor little ink printer? Everybody just takes it for granted. The guys at YOY decided to give our little forgotten friend some street cred. Here’s the ultra simple Poster Lamp. Printed on a simple sheet of paper, just about anybody can put one together. And let’s not deny, it looks just...
Xiaomi Smartphone Sales Surge to Top Samsung as China’s No. 1
[Business]
2015/02/22 11:10
Xiaomi Corp. almost tripled shipments to overtake Samsung Electronics Co. as China’s top smartphone vendor last year, according to researcher IDC.Xiaomi, founded in 2010, captured 12.5 percent of the 421 million units sold in China during 2014, up from a 5.3 percent share the year earlier, IDC said in a statement. Samsung shipments slipped 22 percent, the only decline among the nation’s top f...
(Video) Flashback Clothing Defeats Paparazzi At Their Own Game
[Product]
2015/02/22 11:09
Fame is a double-edge sword bearing its own kind of endurance tests. One of these is certainly dealing with the paparazzi, those annoying photographers who live by their own rules concerning the invasion of the personal privacy of those in the public eye. While it may be true that this kind of attention comes with the fame-territory, that old adage about what's good for the goose is good for th...
Where Do Employees Work Longer Than 9 To 5 ?
[Consumer]
2015/02/22 11:08
The standard 40-hour working week is definitely a myth in Turkey, according to research conducted by the OECD. 43 percent of Turkish employees put in a shift in excess of 50 hours every week. That amounts to approximately 1,855 hours every year, noticeably higher than the OECD average of 1,765. When it comes to gender, 47 percent of men work more than 50 hours per week compared to 33 percent of...
(PDF) Chief Digital Officers in The Telecom Industry
[Business]
2015/02/22 11:08
As telecom operators move ever more rapidly into the age of digitization, a growing number of them are appointing high-level executives to lead the charge. The task of the executives, who are often designated “chief digital officers,” or CDOs, is to gather the cross-functional expertise and capabilities needed to take advantage of their companies’ privileged position as enablers of the digit...
(PDF) Harris Interactive - Connected Car Consumer Study
[Consumer]
2015/02/22 11:07
Connected Car High-Tech Features Popular, But More Marketing Muscle Needed to Spur Demand, Adoption. Lack of consumer education also allowing Connected Car privacy concerns to persistMove over George Jetson. You're not the only one able to transition from favorite at-home or in-office technology to the car, where a 'personal assistant' makes dinner plans, reads messages, converts verbal replies...
Telescopic Contact Lenses Zoom In and Out with the Wink of an Eye
[Tech]
2015/02/22 11:06
Prototype telescopic contact lenses may one day help sufferers of age-related macular degeneration.Researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed contact lenses that have tiny telescopic lenses built in to boost vision. Controlled by smart glasses that react in response to the winking of an eye, the device allows the wearer to zoom in on objec...
Scientists Say All the World’s Data Can Fit on a DNA Hard Drive the Size of a Teaspoon
[Tech]
2015/02/22 11:05
Even though it’s looking increasingly likely that humanity will find a way to wipe itself off the face of the Earth, there’s a chance that our creative output may live on. Servers, hard drives, flash drives, and disks will degrade (as will our libraries of paper books, of course), but a group of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have found a way to encode data onto DNA?...
(Video) Control Your Tesla Model S with the Apple Watch
[Design]
2015/02/22 11:04
ELEKS app concept accelerates the future of connected automobiles and wearables.You might have heard the Tesla Model S all-electric car comes with an “Insane Button,” which when activated shoots the vehicle from 0 to 60 in approximately 3.3 seconds. The acceleration feature is just one instance of the all-wheel drive’s progressive automobile engineering, and a stepping stone of what’s next...
