TREND REPORTS
(Video) Fitzania - When Your Gym Is An Arcade, And Your Arcade Says You Have Cancer
[Tech]
2015/08/11 11:16
What if going in for a medical checkup didn’t involve waiting in a sterile white room decorated with cotton balls and otoscope attachments? What if, instead, you could step up to play a game, as if you’re visiting an old-school arcade?That’s the premise of Fitzania, an interactive exhibit that was on display at the UAE’s recent Museum of the Future installation, conceived by Tellart and pro...
Electrolux HP+ Encourages Gaming In A Good Way
[Design]
2015/08/11 11:16
It’s all about connecting the dots and relating to the present generation. Like it or not, children learn a lot more things via the digital world and gamifying health and hygiene is what the Electrolux HP+ intends to do.Using funky projections that educate a child about the differences between healthy and unhealthy food, the HP+ engages and makes it fun to inculcate good habits. Washing hands...
(PDF) PwC - Making Sense of The Evolving Mobile Payments Landscape
[Business]
2015/08/10 11:19
Despite an estimated $142 billion market for mobile payments by 2019, few solutions have gained traction in the US. Scattered successes among a few providers have revealed what may be the logical direction for success, but the landscape is still fragmented and unknown. To succeed, a mobile payment system will have to solve multiple issues that have stymied adoption in the past. How should merch...
(Patent) Once Thought Dead, Google Glass Gets a Second Coming
[Tech]
2015/08/10 11:19
Though considered an epic failure, according to its makers and a recent patent, Google Glass might have simply suffered from first-version woes.Google announced that they would no longer be selling Google Glass in January of this year, and at that time, the device was pulled from the market. It seems that the futuristic technology was a little before its time, and not much of a fashion statemen...
Target Launches Beacon Test In 50 Stores, Will Expand Nationwide Later This Year
[Business]
2015/08/10 11:19
Target, the second largest general merchandise retailer in the U.S., announced this morning that it will start testing beacon technology in 50 of its stores nationwide. With beacon technology, the company says it will be able to send information about deals as well as recommendations directly to consumers’ smartphones, provided they opt in to receive these alerts.Initially, the beacon technolo...
(PDF) Top 20 Startup Ecosystems in the World
[Business]
2015/08/10 11:18
We’re in the midst of a startup revolution. That’s the crux of a new report on the top 20 entrepreneurial hubs in the world, published by the Compass Group. Seattle’s startup ecosystem ranks eighth on the list, just behind Chicago and ahead of Berlin.The findings are based on five metrics — performance (capital raised, exit valuations), funding (VC investment, duration of fundraising period...
(Video) The Privacy Visor Block Facial Recognition Technology
[Tech]
2015/08/10 11:18
Glasses That Confuse Facial Recognition Systems Are Coming to Japan.We might soon be living in a world where advertisers exploit facial recognition technology to target us with customized ads in streets. Or, according to the researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII), where our photographs are snapped by surveillance or smartphone cameras equipped with facial recognition, a...
Nicotine-Gobbling Enzyme Could Help Smokers Quit
[Tech]
2015/08/10 11:18
A naturally-occurring enzyme has been found to dramatically reduce the half-life of nicotine in the blood.Nicotine replacement therapy, such as pills, gum and patches, can make the road to quitting smoking a little less rocky, but these aren't always effective and a tremendous amount of discipline still plays the major role. A team of US-based researchers has now uncovered an enzyme found in na...
A Vibrant Cafe Where There’s a Color for Every Item
[Design]
2015/08/10 11:18
Taste the rainbow, or have a Black Coffee 19-1111, at the Pantone Cafe, where every menu item was inspired by a color on Pantone's color space.At the Pantone Cafe in Monaco, you can grab a scoop of Mango 17-1446 ice cream or a Strawberry Pink 16-1731 éclair, before washing your snack down with a glass of Vibrant Orange 16-364 juice.That’s because every menu item at the cafe—which was created...
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