LED front exterior accent lighting skyrocketed to the number eight most demanded feature for 2021AutoPacific’s latest Future Attribute Demand Study (FADS) has indicated a sharp growing interest in certain vehicle features while others have fallen on the wayside. This year, 88,998 new vehicle acquires were surveyed via AutoPacific’s 2021 New Vehicle Satisfaction Survey (NVSS) to determine what...

The company's new Ridecare service ensures vehicles don't end up smelling like a roadhouse.Carsharing services give residents of big cities the benefits of occasional car use without the downsides of paying for parking and maintenance. But no one wants to climb into a vehicle that smells like a pack of Marlboros, so Bosch has created a new AI-powered sensor that allows carshare fleet operators...

Mictic is a wearable wristband which translates gestures and movements into musical tones and sound effects in real-time.Switzerland-based Mictic has created a pair of wearables that turns thin air into your concert hall. Imagine a theremin without the theremin, hooked up to a clever loop station, and you’ve got the right idea. Just from the demos and descriptions, it’s the kind of startup yo...

AirPods are touchy creatures. While touch sensors are literally integrated into the design and construction of AirPods, the earbuds are also temperamental. Depending on the shape and size of your ear, users wear AirPods differently and give it some time, and each user knows the exact positioning that gets the best sound out of their AirPods.Inspired by the iconic design language of Apple, 3D ar...

Across all sustainability issues, 88% of global investors rated the environment as the number one priority. Clearly, investors are recognising the urgency of climate change and the need for related investing strategies.In this graphic from iShares by BlackRock, we define climate investing, the forces giving it momentum, and how investors can begin to implement it in their own portfolios.What is...

It will be two more years until the big-spending Chinese travelers return in force.The contribution of Chinese travelers to global tourism used to be No. 1 in the world. There were 155 million international trips by Chinese travelers in 2019, spending about US$245 billion in total. But because of COVID-19, Chinese international travelers have almost completely disappeared, and retailers and hos...

The collaboration between the virtual fashion collective and pop artist is set to boost the popularity and value of NFT avatars. In the rush of NFT marketplace activity and creativity over the past year, one class of digital collectibles has emerged as a major contender. Since the later part of 2021, NFT avatars have taken off in popularity and value, spurred by social media networks and a numb...

The company formerly known as Facebook has its eye on building the metaverse.Meta, Mark Zuckerberg's company formerly known as Facebook, plans to introduce physical stores that will showcase its virtual- and augmented-reality devices — the potential first step towards building the metaverse, The New York Times reports. The term "metaverse," which first appeared in Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel...

The company will build on research carried out by London artificial intelligence lab DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014.LDemis Hassabis, the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, is the founder and CEO of Isomorphic Labs.In a blog post, Hassabis described Isomorphic Labs as a commercial venture with a mission to “reimagine the entire drug discovery process from the ground up.”British artificia...