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(Patent) Amazon Patents AR Tech to Show Product Reviews on Your Body Parts
[Tech]
2020/09/06 09:10
The concept proposes using augmented reality effects via smartphones and smart glasses to render and display the virtual product information on your hands and arms.You can easily access Amazon’s product reviews on a smartphone. But what if the same reviews could automatically pop up from your hands as you walk through a retail store? The idea may sound weird, but it’s actually the basis for a...
(PDF) BCG - Can Delivery Companies Keep Up with the E-Commerce Boom?
[Business]
2020/09/06 09:09
Employers.Unsurprisingly, the COVID-19 crisis has led to a big increase in e-commerce around the world. Wary consumers, many in lockdown, have been turning to online shopping in large numbers:During the third week of March, for example, e-commerce sales in the US were 58% higher than during the same period in 2019. Perhaps more telling, 20% of consumers in the US said that, over the previous 30...
(Paper) New AR App Helps Engineers Visualize Data to Improve Robot Design
[Tech]
2020/09/06 09:08
Robot Operating System (ROS), is one of the most robust and popular collections of robotics software frameworks on the planet. But its visualization tools are somewhat lacking, which spurred researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to create an augmented reality (AR) companion app for mobile devices and heads-up displays like Microsoft’s HoloLens. Developed in Unity and dubbed Iviz...
Time to Get Smart on Shelves
[Consumer]
2020/09/06 09:07
Malaysia is now in what we call the reboot stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. As restrictions have eased and a new post-lockdown normal emerges, we still see changes in consumer/shopper behaviour, as the ripple effect of the pandemic on the economy and consumers continue. These changing market dynamics present new challenges for retailers and manufacturers. One the one hand, the rise in proximity...
SoftBank Leads $100M Investment In AI And Digital Therapeutics Startup Biofourmis
[Investing]
2020/09/06 09:06
Kuldeep Singh Rajput quit his PhD program in 2015 to pursue a lofty goal: use artificial intelligence to predict disease before it happens.That knowledge, garnered from wearable sensors, could help drive treatment and medication decisions, improving overall health for patients. Today his company, Biofourmis, is using AI to help treat heart disease and remotely monitor patients with a range of c...
Internet of Things Q2 Funding Update
[Investing]
2020/09/06 09:05
The pandemic and resulting economic toll has presented challenging headwinds for startups. In this post we look back on Q2 ending funding trends for IoT startups to determine the trajectory of innovation in this emerging technology sector.Below we see that the number of funding events per quarter has been on a downward trend, with 86 deals closing in Q2. This implies that new innovations in the...
This Low-Cost Baby Health Monitor is Designed to Make Baby’s Healthcare Easy
[Design]
2020/09/06 09:04
Across the globe in 2018, 2.5 million babies died within their first month of life. Collectively, Africa and Southern Asia made up approximately 87.7% of these deaths. – UNICEFTo address this issue, designers Chris Barnes and others at Cambridge Consultants of Cambridge, UK have designed a wearable health monitor for newborns in areas where current solutions are not easily available. Called ‘...
This Adorable Blue Cat Moves Across The Milk Packaging
[Design]
2020/09/06 09:03
Russian design agency depot has developed the new branding identity for milgrad’s bryansk dairy plant.Knowing that the dairy market occupies more than 22% of the FMCG food product structure, the design aims to stand out on the dairy shelf, increase sales, expand the geography of representation and distribution channels while showcasing a humorous, kind and sweet response. the result? a blue ca...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Next Normal : The Recovery Will be Digital
[Business]
2020/09/03 09:10
How six companies are using technology and data to transform themselves.A study referenced in the popular magazine Psychology Today concluded that it takes an average of 66 days for a behavior to become automatic. If that’s true, that’s good news for business leaders who have spent the past five months running their companies in ways they never could have imagined. The COVID-19 pandemic is a...
