The Desktop Disinfection Cupboard is a minimalist at-home sanitation micro solution for disinfecting kitchen dishware and utensils.Sanitizing our household items has become a top priority since the pandemic sent us deeper into our home spaces. Sometimes it feels like our shelves can never be stocked enough with Lysol wipes and disinfectants. On top of that, the past few years have not been shor...

From when to go to the office to why work in the first place, employees have a new “worth it” equation. We’ve been on the cusp of the shift to hybrid work for more than a year, with false starts attributed to a pandemic that had other ideas. Now, we’re at a long-awaited inflection point: the lived experience of hybrid work. Already, hybrid work is up seven points year-over-year (to 38%), an...

French luxury fashion house Dior has collaborated with renowned Japanese floral artist Azuma Makoto for the brand’s latest Privée fragrance collection. Makoto was commissioned to create six floral sculptures drawing inspiration from olfactory signatures found in the collection. The resulting works serve as a poetic visual expression of the ephemeral fragrances.For his latest collaboration wit...

Global Venture Funding Fell Last Quarter For The First Time In A Year. How Significant Is That? Global venture funding reached $160 billion in the first quarter of 2022, Crunchbase data shows, marking the first time in a year of records when startup capital fell quarter over quarter.The first quarter of 2022 jumped 7 percent compared to the first quarter of 2021, but fell 13 percent, from $184...

Labster, a Copenhagen, Denmark and Boston, MA-based provider of a platform for virtual labs and interactive science, raised $47M in additional funding.The round, which brings total funding raised to date to $147m, was led by Sofina Group and Pirate Impact, with participation from Owl Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, EduCapital, NPF Technologies, and GGV Capital. They are joining the Series C roun...

The pandemic helped fuel a decline in tourism globally.Tourists spent an extra 1.8 billion nights in the European Union in 2021 compared with the year before.But this is still almost 40% lower than pre-pandemic levels, according to EU statistics.Tourism is an important sector for the world economy, and is expected to continue recovering gradually in 2022.However, there are still risks – includ...

Medicines can be printed in seven seconds in a new 3D-printing technique that could enable rapid on-site production of medicines, reports a UCL-led research team.The findings published in the journal, Additive Manufacturing, improve the prospects of how 3D printers could be integrated into fast-paced clinical settings for on-demand production of personalized medicines.For the current study, the...

According to a survey by Engine Insights, 76% of consumers have scanned a QR code before. Nearly two months after the Super Bowl, the advertising industry is still abuzz about Coinbase’s minutelong commercial of a bouncing QR code. It undoubtedly worked to drive traffic to the cryptocurrency platform’s website, which buckled under the 20 million hits it received within a minute of the ad airi...

Losing a pet can be so painful as these animals can give us so much joy. Pet owners should also be allowed time to grieve and mourn as much as losing a human. Not many people will understand, but there can be a way to mourn a pet dog’s death properly.The CIRI-US Beam Projector is an attempt to mourn the death of a man’s best friend more positively and beautifully. The concept beam projector d...