Health tech innovators are investing in the Future of Health through platform businesses.Digital platforms can bring together ecosystem participants to build new business models that cocreate goods and services, enable wider customer reach, access to new capabilities, and increase revenue.COVID-19, value-based care, data liquidity, consumer expectations, digital transformation, virtual health—...

The idea of digital twins — digital representations of humans built with computer models — for medical research is gaining traction in private and academic sectors. With predictive simulation technology, some experts say that digital twins have the potential to improve healthcare by assessing health risks before a disease becomes symptomatic, helping clinicians determine, for example, when (a...

The COVID-19 pandemic was a major catalyst in the future of work.We quickly learned that work could be done practically anywhere. To emphasize the impact remote work culture has had, consider the fact that some 71% of Americans did some type of remote work in 2020, compared to just 20% pre-pandemic.This infographic from eToro dives into the new world of remote work and explores the main trends...

Dutch scientists have attempted to design the perfect chocolate structure for pleasurable crackliness, using novel 3D printing techniques to wrangle this notoriously difficult material into shape.A team of Dutch scientists has taken on the grueling task of designing the perfect piece of chocolate, using novel 3D printing techniques to create designs that shatter in the most pleasurable way when...

Introducing the AIPER Seagull 3000, a cordless robot pool cleaner unlike any other on the market. It’s powered by a unique floating battery station that travels above water as it cleans, supercharging the Seagull 3000 with an unrivaled 120W of power - more than any of its underwater battery competitors. With wall-climbing power and a 120 min runtime, it’s a cordless robotic pool cleaner built...

U.S. patent application, US20220113926, discloses a privacy screen to display digital content of external devices. In computer-simulated reality, a first device is coupled with a first display. An image sensor receives data that represents displayable content from a second device having a second display different from the first display. The first device determines the position of the second dis...

Few retailers excel at being green, but the sector is striving for improvement. Where is your company on the maturity curve?A new maturity survey from BCG, developed in collaboration with the World Retail Congress, finds that sustainability is now a strategic priority for many retail companies. That’s the good news. The more important finding from the survey, which polled employees at 37 major...

A company called Gravity Sketch has taken that concept into 3D, leveraging tools like virtual reality headsets to let designers and others dive into and better visualize a product’s design as it’s being made; and the London-based startup is announcing $33 million in funding to take its own business to the next dimension.The Series A is coming as Gravity Sketch passes 100,000 users, including...

Eye-tracking has long been one of the those computing holy grails. Whether it’s accessibility concerns, opening up new form factors or just trying to put a novel spin on the ways we interact with our devices, decades of consumer electronics are littered with attempts to use the gaze to unlock a new form of input.The thinking behind Carnegie Melon University’s punily named EyeMU (I suppose “I...