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Ready-to-Drink Booze Is Winning the Stay-at-Home Drinking Game
[Product]
2020/05/18 09:05
Hard seltzers and canned wines were already on the upswing, but pre-mixed cocktails are the star of the living room bar.While many Americans continue to live under some measure of quarantine, people have been drinking more at home. With restaurants and bars unlikely to reopen soon (if at all), and a near-guarantee of a second wave of Covid-19 infections, it seems the living room bar is here to...
Coronavirus Lockdown Spurs 264% Boom in Plant-Based Meat
[Business]
2020/05/18 09:04
While there’s been talk of Americans resorting to indulgent foods as they shelter in place, they’ve instead flocked to plant-based meat and cheap pantry staples.Since the coronavirus pandemic ignited a nationwide lockdown in March, U.S. consumers have doubled purchases of all sorts of beans and canned meat, according to Nielsen data. The biggest surge of any category came in plant-based meat,...
Tentsile Stand Keeps Tree Tents Up in the Air Without Trees By C.C. Weiss
[Product]
2020/05/18 09:03
Tentsile's new stand weighs nearly 100 lb (45 kg) and stretches out more than 15 feet (4.6-m). It looks something like a spacecraft on the verge of takeoff, but if you find yourself needing to hang a Tentsile tent in an open field, beach or yard, it's a piece of kit you'll be happy to have on hand.We've taken both hammock and tree tents on camping trips before, and even when venturing inside th...
(Patent) Apple Doubling Down on Bendable Designs for MacBook, MacBook Pro
[Tech]
2020/05/17 09:11
Future MacBook or MacBook Pro models may adopt a unibody design with a seamless bendable hinge mechanism to allow Apple to build them out of a single piece of material.Following many Apple patent applications for bendable, and even rollable, screens for the iPhone and iPad, the company is also examining how a MacBook Pro could benefit from being able to bend. Rather than the current complex hin...
(PDF) BCG : COVID-19 Consumer Sentiment Snapshot #7: Retracing the Old Normal
[Consumer]
2020/05/17 09:10
A look back sounds appealing. As lockdowns continue across most US states, many people are reflecting on what life was like before COVID-19. The inclination to reminisce is certainly understandable on a deeply human level: a few months ago, consumers were engaging in life-enriching activities ranging from taking vacations to shopping in nonessential stores to dining in favorite restaurants to s...
(Paper) Inflatable E-Bike Fits in a Backpack - POIMO
[Design]
2020/05/17 09:09
Flexibility, portability, and intrinsic safety could make this personal mobility system better than rigid bikes and scooters.The trend towards communal sidewalk-based personal mobility systems (like shared bikes and scooters) has resulted in some amount of actual personal mobility, but also a lot of cluttered sidewalks, injured riders and pedestrians, and questionable business models. Fortunate...
(M&A) Apple Acquires Startup NextVR that Broadcasts VR Content
[Investing]
2020/05/17 09:08
Apple Inc. confirmed it acquired NextVR, a startup that provides sports and other content for virtual-reality headsets. NextVR provides virtual-reality sports content to headsets. Apple developing virtual reality, augmented reality headsets.The acquisition may help Apple’s development of VR and AR headsets with accompanying software and content. NextVR supplies content to several existing VR h...
Intel Capital Invests $132 Million in 11 Disruptive Technology
[Investing]
2020/05/17 09:07
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organization, announced today new investments totaling $132 million in 11 technology startups. These companies bring to market breakthrough innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous computing and chip design. The companies joining Intel Capital’s portfolio are Anodot, Astera Labs, Axonne, Hypersonix, KFBIO, Lilt, MemVerge, Pro...
(Video) Moxie is a Pixar-Inspired Robot Backed by Toyota, Sony, Amazon, and Intel
[Investing]
2020/05/17 09:06
Designed by Fuseproject with input from an ex-Jim Henson designer, Moxie is the new robot to watch.Three years ago, I talked to a team of designers at Mattel who were so excited they could barely contain themselves. They had developed what they believed to be the next big hit for kids: An $300 AI speaker called Aristotle. It was essentially an Amazon Echo reimagined as a nanny to read to your c...
