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The PAAVA Portable Speaker is Designed with the Bowling Pin as an Inspiration
[Design]
2022/03/22 09:06
PAAVA Portable Speaker won’t easily fall or slide off a surface.How do you address the issue of a portable speaker rolling and falling? Some models don’t even have a proper grip, so they easily slide off a surface. An industrial designer came up with a new design that won’t easily fall off.Stalin Jr., an architect and industrial designer, designed the PAAVA Portable Speaker with the bowling...
Where The Crypto Hype is Taking Over
[Investing]
2022/03/22 09:05
In India, the number of crypto users more than doubled from 7 per cent to 18 per cent from 2019-21.Cryptocurrencies, even the jokey ones, are part of a robust, well-funded ideological movement that has serious implications for our political and economic future. Credit: Reuters File PhotoFor years, cryptocurrency seemed like the kind of fleeting tech trend most people could safely ignore but its...
Ground-Breaking New Batteries for Remote Communities
[Product]
2022/03/22 09:04
A new generation of sodium-ion batteries is designed to bring clean, affordable, and sustainable power to some of the poorest and most remote regions.UK-based renewable energy and battery specialist AceOn has teamed up with battery pioneer AMTE Power to use next generation solar-powered energy storage units to bring electricity to remote sub-Saharan African communities. AceOn has developed the...
Bizarre Treehouse Surrounds Hotel Guests with Feathery Friends - Big's TreeH
[Design]
2022/03/22 09:03
Biosphere is being created for the Treehotel project in Sweden, which showcases several bespoke hotel rooms by some of Scandinavia's most respected architects.The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has produced more than its fair share of out-of-the-box designs, but the firm's latest project is one of its most unusual in some time. Looking a bit like a large round pinecone among the trees, the Biosphere...
(PDF) Pew - AI and Human Enhancement
[Consumer]
2022/03/21 09:10
Americans’ Openness Is Tempered by a Range of Concerns. Public views are tied to how these technologies would be used, what constraints would be in place.Developments in artificial intelligence and human enhancement technologies have the potential to remake American society in the coming decades. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that Americans see promise in the ways these technologies c...
(Paper) Disney - Stackable ‘Holobricks’ Can Make Giant 3D Images
[Tech]
2022/03/21 09:09
Researchers have developed a new method to display highly realistic holographic images using ‘holobricks’ that can be stacked together to generate large-scale holograms.The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and Disney Research, developed a holobrick proof-of-concept, which can tile holograms together to form a large seamless 3D image. This is the first time this technology has bee...
Howard Schultz is Back for Another Stint as Starbucks CEO
[Business]
2022/03/21 09:08
35 years ago Howard Schultz took the top job at Starbucks, a small chain serving coffee in 11 locations. Over the next 3 decades, across two different stints as CEO, Schultz would reshape Starbucks into a US, and then a global, coffee empire — with more than 25,000 locations by the time he stepped down in 2017.Now, he's back (again). Schultz is once again stepping up to the top job, this time...
Zaha Hadid Architects Designs Virtual Liberland Metaverse City
[Design]
2022/03/21 09:07
Liberland Metaverse is a "cyber-urban" city in the metaverse designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.British architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has created a "cyber-urban" city in the metaverse where people can buy plots of land with cryptocurrency and enter digital buildings as an avatar.Named Liberland Metaverse, the virtual city is a based on the Free Republic of Liberland – a micronation...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Unpacking The Cross-Border Parcel Market’s Promise
[Business]
2022/03/21 09:06
As e-commerce continues to fuel cross-border package deliveries around the world, what should logistics providers pay attention to?“Deliver the letter, the sooner the better,” crooned the Marvelettes, the Beatles, and the Carpenters in the hit song “Please Mr. Postman,” capturing the familiar sentiment of not receiving a letter quickly enough. But today, with email largely replacing snail m...
