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Philips HealthCab - Autonomous Healthcare Vision and Health Mobility
[Design]
2021/10/13 09:06
HealthCab is Philips’ future vision of an autonomous healthcare where you don’t need to go to the hospital, the hospital would go to you. How’s that sound? It’s an ambitious design concept that provokes current models of care delivery, this could be the future of healthcare that started as a visionary design concept. With pandemic that has exposed many problems in our healthcare systems acr...
Global PC Sales Stunted by Supply and Logistics Snarls
[Business]
2021/10/13 09:05
U.S. PC market shrinks for first time since Covid-19 outbreak. Pandemic boost to home-computing demand enters sixth quarter.Computer sales grew at the slowest rate since the start of the pandemic due to component shortages and logistics snarls, according to the latest report by IDC.The key U.S. market shrunk for the first time since sales cratered in the first quarter of 2020 with the coronavir...
Gaming Device Designed to Help Stroke Patients Regain Arm Strength - Gripable
[Product]
2021/10/13 09:04
When someone has suffered arm weakness due to a stroke, it's important for them to perform repetitive exercises in order to regain strength in the limb. A new device is designed to help them do so, as they use the gadget to play video games.Designed by a team at Imperial College London, the rehabilitation tool is known as the GripAble. The patient holds the device in the hand of their affected...
The Modular Coffee Maker Stacks Inspired by Jenga - Cenga
[Design]
2021/10/13 09:03
Inspired by the build of Jenga towers, Cenga is a modular, handmade coffee set with a grinder, dripper, and canister included in a single unit.Since coffee shops closed due to the pandemic, we’ve brought the coffee shops home–grinders, drippers, travel mugs, galore. With so many supplies needed to make a cup of coffee, storing our at-home coffee shops becomes the hard part.Piled together like...
(Patent) Apple Patents A Rollable Smartphone That Can Work On Expandable iPhone
[Tech]
2021/10/12 09:10
Rumors from various sources keep sharing details about Apple’s purported foldable iPhone. That Apple is developing such a device isn’t at all surprising. Everyone in the industry is developing handsets with foldable displays, with Samsung being the best example. The Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3 also happen to be the best possible foldable handsets that money can buy right now. And reports say t...
(Infographic) The Global Unicorn Club in Data
[Investing]
2021/10/12 09:09
The global unicorn club is bigger than it's ever been, with 800+ private companies topping $1B valuations. We break down the data on this elite cohort.There are more unicorns than ever before, with over 800 private companies topping $1B+ valuations.As the global unicorn club closes the gap to 1,000, we used CB Insights data to visualize the stats on this elite cohort, from valuation distributio...
(Paper) New Virtual Obstacle Courses Are Teaching Real Robots How to Walk
[Tech]
2021/10/12 09:08
A virtual army of 4,000 doglike robots was used to train an algorithm capable of enhancing the legwork of real-world robots. And new tricks learned in the simulation could soon see execution in a neighborhood near you.The simulated army was developed by Switzerland-based ETH Zurich researchers, in addition to engineers at the chip-manufacturing company, Nvidia. Together, they used meandering bo...
Bain - How Sustainable Brands Add Value
[Business]
2021/10/12 09:07
The companies that scored highest on sustainability in our survey also saw the biggest revenue payoffs.There is a science that can help consumer goods companies see the link between sustainable brands and consumer value.To understand what underpins a consumer’s perception of value, we identified 30 fundamental Elements of Value® that fall into four categories: functional, emotional, life-chan...
Ashton Kutcher Group Teams with Bioprinted Alt Meat Startup MeaTech
[Investing]
2021/10/12 09:06
At the forefront of the cultured meat revolution, MeaTech develops 3D bioprinting technologies to produce premium industrial animal cell-based meat cuts as a sustainable alternative to industrialized farming. In just two years, the Israeli company went from startup to becoming a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq exchange. Now MeaTech has announced a partnership with a collective led by two...
