Home depot s online merchant for tools, told Huffpost by phone. It s really about bringing about new innovation to customers. 3-D printers can whip up everything from#vagina selfies#to#handguns,
The smartshoes sync up with a smartphone#app#that uses Google maps and vibrate to tell users
##Just tell your phone where you want to go and then you can leave it in your pocket
and not have to stop to check their phones as they move because the buzzing in their shoes will let them know when to turn.
as well as AME Cloud Ventures, the venture fund of Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang, to further develop its proprietary chemistry and finance the batteries commercial launch.
The batteries that power most laptops and smartphones contain lithium which is highly reactive and has to be protected in ways that add size and bulk.
Mcor s Director of Marketing tells 3dprint. com. Staples, Gunma Internet, Vincennes University, WH Williams/Williams 3d,
More details on Mcor can be found on their#website where they have made available a free#White paper,
Magline further improves on system economics by utilizing apacket switching model that enables offline stops without slowing traffic on the mainline.
The product, known as Bag2go, can be tracked via a smartphone app. It also allows for self-service check ins
AT&T unveiled a similar concept at a demonstration of itsnext-generation technologies in May. The company envisions integrating the product with standard suitcases
About ten years after the commercial debut of the Internet, America s newspapers posted record high advertising sales of $49. 4 billion in 2005.
While newspaper publishers are continuing to gain audience at their web and mobile sites, their interactive efforts typically trail the level of engagement achieved by many native digital media.
By contrast, Facebook alone attracts 166.5 million uniques per month. Here is the big difference:
While the typical visitor spends#1. 1 minutes#at a newspaper site, the average dwell time at Facebook,
the super-sticky social network, is nearly half an hour. Weekday print circulation dropped 47%from an average of 54.6 million papers a day in 2004 to an average of 29.1 million papers per day in 2014,
according to my analysis of a random sample of data from the Alliance for Audited Media. Sunday circulation in the same period fared somewhat better,
I compiled the current data at Yahoo Finance. One major consequence of the industry-wide contraction is that newsroom staffing dived by 31%from 54,700 journalists in 2002 to 38,000 in 2012,
including making it work on cellphones. Shilkrot said developers believe they will be able to affordably market the Fingerreader
and offices offers cumbersome scanners that must process the desired script before it can be read aloud by character-recognition software installed on a computer or smartphone,
because corrupt politicians threaten innovation and a fair Internet. We have no protection for network neutrality because of the enormous influence of cable company s money in the political system
and will be summonable with a smartphone app. The system s automated nature, transit expert Joe Dignan told#BBC News,
Benches can now be added to the list of things like watches, cars, phones, and everything else that comes in a smart variety.
the benches will feature plugs to charge your smartphone, and will also wirelessly connect to the internet to provide location-based information, like air quality data.
Your cell phone doesn't just make phone calls Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh said in a statement Friday, the Globe reports.
and designed by three female engineers working with the MIT Media Lab spinoff startup Changing environments, according to Yahoo Tech.
one of the three inventors of the Soofa, told Yahoo Tech. One trait we have is we run around with our phones all the time,
and they die every five minutes. So for us it s really important to be charged up all the time
covered by Cisco systems at no cost to the city, the Globe says. And while the first wave will only occur in the Soofas hometown,
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#Banking with startups a growing trend Majority of the people in the U s. could bebanking with startups in the next three to five years.
(and other startups) by adopting a model that has been used by many other successful tech companies, like#ebay#and#Amazon, for example.
Mobile and the Disintermediation of Bill Pay, Processing & More Of course, the opportunities for disruption at the hands of disintermediation extend beyond lending.
The smartphone and increasing mobility of our world is changing the game. The consumerization of the enterprise and thebyod (bring your own device) trend within businesses mean that phones
and tablets are entrenched becoming features within the corporate and consumer worlds. Companies like Intuit, ebay/Paypal,
Mint. com started the ball rolling when it comes to disintermediation, and today a new generation of companies like Square, Braintree, Dwolla, Simple, Venmo, Indinero and Check are taking it to the next level.
and the reach of the new mobile phone network to edge into territory that has traditionally been controlled by banks.#
and even Amazon and Groupon are playing thedisintermediator and are putting credit card processing in the hands of SMBS (small and medium businesses) and consumers.
and manage all of their critical banking information and bills in one place on their smartphones.
Rather than consumers being forced to go to their banks websites, their utility company s website and so on,
and a digital currency of record could become the micropayment system for the web, allowing publications, for example,
As noted futurist and self-proclaimed technology oracle Ray Kurzweil said at Google S i/O conference last week, the hype,
#Google announces Google Drive for Work with unlimited storage for businesses Google Drive for Work#will cost $10 per month
Google just announced a new product that will offer business users unlimited storage for a set monthly fee per user.#
##Google Drive for Work#will cost $10 per month and come with unlimited storage, as well as a full license for Gmail and Google Apps.
It s a huge change for Google, which previously had a maximum storage limit of 30gb per user for Google Apps,
with extra storage tiers starting at $1. 99 per month for 100gb and going up to 30tb for $300(!)
per month. No more. Now every user will have unlimited storage, with no catches. Google is also increasing the maximum file size to 5tb larger than the largest hard drive on any PC available today.
I asked Google Drive product manager Scott Johnston what type of file could possibly run into the previous 1tb limit,
and he suggested high-defintion video (like 4k from a Gopro camera) or exceptionally large data files the kind of files usually stored on servers.
The move to unlimited storage was inevitable Box CEO Aaron Levie predicted this day on Twitter#back in March
Johnston told me that Google absolutely intends to offer feature parity between mobile and web,
You ll see the gaps between mobile and web close significantly, Johnston told me. We ll march in lockstop with Android and ios
. I don t see where any competitor has a better story in terms of cross-platform. We recognize the importance of that to users.
Johnston also emphasized that Drive is not exclusively for Google Apps customers, but will be catered to all companies,
Google is also addressing some longstanding complaints with Google Apps and Office file compatibility by integrating Quickoffice, acquired more than a year ago, into the suite.
Now, users will be able to edit Microsoft-formatted files directly within Google Apps without converting them to Google s file formats.
but Google Apps director of product management Ryan Tabone promises that round-tripping will be more reliable in these cases.
Google Apps is also getting revision tracking and commenting, another long-overdue feature inherited from Quickoffice.
In addition to making storage size irrelevant, Google is also offering features designed to reassure IT managers who might be nervous about moving files to the cloud,
On the security front, Google will offer encryption at rest on its servers. In addition to encryption in transit and between data centers,
Overall, the improvements are an important indication that Google has given not up on the enterprise. The Apps suite has been pretty static for the last couple of years,
and it seemed that Larry page was satisfied to keep the product around as a decent side business (advertising still makes up 90%of Google s more than $40 billion in annual revenue) and a thorn in Microsoft s side,
but didn t think of it as a core part of Google s larger strategy. Today s announcements,
show in fact that Google won t cede any part of its enterprise cloud business to newcomers. You shouldn t expect Google to get into verticals like CRM or HR management,
but as far as broad-based infrastructure and horizontal Saas offerings go, Google is in the enterprise game to stay.
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#New recyclable plastics discovered by accident A collection of new plastics that are recyclable and adaptable have been developed by researchers
The site also reported that Oak ridge is considering processing 3d printed objects after they are printed so that they appear smooth.
highly customized modules that will go into Google s Project Ara phones, 3d Systems turned to an old concept:
The printers deposit different colors and types of materials on phones whizzing past them on an oval-shaped track.
but even the largest units would have trouble keeping up with the volume of phones Google expects to need.
Blinding lasers Desert Wolf s website states that its Skunk octacopter drone is fitted with four high-capacity paintball barrels, each capable of firing up to 20 bullets
the Defence Web news site has published a photo of the drone after it was unveiled at a security trade show near Johannesburg in May.
Guy Martin, the editor of Defence Web, said he believed the drone was unique. The Skunk unmanned aerial vehicle with its four paintball guns, loudhailer and cameras is only a logical next step in the development of UAVS,
but slightly faceted aesthetic you might equate with their Jawbone headsets or Jambox. But it s also recognizably influenced from the Nike+Fuelbandwhen you tilt the cup,
phones are typically in our pockets. We wanted to make sure there was something right in front of you,
##Results from the latest clinical trials of his#smartphone-linked artificial pancreas#suggest he might just make that deadline.
A smartphone-linkedpancreas removes the need for people with type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor
Every 5 minutes, a signal is sent wirelessly from a glucose monitor under the user s skin to an iphone app,
and self-checkout terminals to voice-recognition telephone apps, each year intelligent systems will take over more jobs formerly held by humans;
Dr. Eric Topol, director of the#Scripps Translational Science Institute, describes in a#Youtube#video#how patient-focused technology improves medicine.
and many websites provide free medical advice; and even TV ads often disclose critical data.
Futurist Marshall Brain in his#Robotic Freedom Blog#agrees with the idea. America should create a $25, 000 annual stipend for every U s. adult,
since the Internet exploded into our lives in the mid-1990##s. We now go into a store to figure out what we want to buy only to go home
which consists of walls with grids on them that the phone uses to track with technology similar to#Google s Tango.
because our phones help us keep a record of what we like e
#The Connected Fitting Room eliminates personal interaction with salespeople The Connected Fitting Room Retailers rely heavily on online shopping.
#The nanodegree A new type of college degree created by AT&T and Udacity An instructor for Udacity teaching an online Python class.
AT&T and the online education provider Udacity have partnered to create thenanodegree, a new type of college degree similar to the#Micro Colleges that Futurist Thomas Frey predicted.
and Internet billionaires have promised to overhaul the clunky path to a diploma. We need to take
and experience, wrote#Linkedin cofounder Reid Hoffman. Last year, on stage with California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun#announced#a new consortium of businesses, the Open education Alliance,
together with many of the original partners, from AT&T to Autodesk. It s a failure of the community college system, the California state system,
Continuing, the blog explains, Our early nanodegrees will prepare you for a job as a front-end web developer,
back-end web developer, ios mobile developer, Android mobile developer, or data analyst. The first nanodegree will start this fall.
Other online education providers, such as Coursera,#are designing their own certifications, which take about the same amount of time,
#Mobile can drive down healthcare costs and improve care Jawbone, wearable technology for a healthier lifestyle.
Enter##Mobile Brands and healthcare organizations are realizing the potential of mobile apps and increasingly,
73 percent of people who use mobile to track their health/fitness now believe they are healthier than they used to be as a result.
Mobile in (medical practice When it comes to healthcare, mobile enables interactions and insights that were previously unimaginable,
they would use their smartphones to track their health and fitness even more. By leveraging the convenience, ubiquity and increasing intelligence of mhealth tools,
#Google buys startup Skybox Imaging for $500 million Google#will use Skybox s satellite-photo tech to improve Google maps.
Google is buying the startup, Skybox Imaging, a company that specializes in photos taken by satellites, for $500 million.#
Google#said#the buyout will help bolster Google maps by keeping the service accurate with up-to-date images.
The acquisition will give Google the ability to design and build its own fleet of satellites.
and disaster relief areas Google has long been interested in, Google said in a statement. The deal comes as big tech companies have become more interested in aerial technology including satellites
and drones to expand their reach and business operations: getting more people online means being able to offer services to larger populations.
Google in April purchased drone maker Titan Aerospace to help further#Project Loon, the company s initiative to bring the Internet to less-connected places around the world using high-altitude Wi-fi balloons.
Facebook which was said also to be in acquisition talks#with Titan Aerospace has focused on developing drones and satellites as a means for beaming Internet connectivity to more people.
In March, the company#announced#a new lab dedicated to developing that technology. The effort is in line with the mission of CEO Mark Zuckerberg s Internet. org
which aims to bring the Web to everyone in the world. Skybox and Google share more than just a ZIP CODE,
reads a#blog post#by Skybox, which, like Google, is based in Mountain view, Calif. We both believe in making information (especially accurate geospatial information) accessible and useful.
Google maps itself got its start after Google#acquired#another satellite imaging company, Keyhole, a decade ago.
Skybox in November#launched#Skysat-1, a satellite capable of taking 90-second videos at 30 frames per second.
The satellite was to be the first of a fleet of 24 launched to capture views of Tokyo;
Bangkok; Baltimore; Las vegas; and Aleppo, Syria. Google hasn indicated t if the rest of the launches will remain on schedule after the startup joins the company.
We ve asked Skybox for comment and will update this post when we hear back.
Though people have for some time been speculating about Google s interest in Skybox, Tuesday s announcement pegged the deal at half the price of the#rumored $1 billion#that had originally been reported.
Google also warned that the price tag could be adjusted and that the deal is subject to approval by regulators.
But it has introduced also new Google Chromebook laptops and an experimental new desktop aimed at businesses that runs Android.
the mobile phone and tablet suppliers will switch too. Nice tech advancement we all can benefit from.
#Ostendo Technologies chip to bring holograms to smartphones Ostendo chip that can produce a hologram Virtual reality won t require strapping a bulky contraption to your head in the future.
where startup Ostendo Technologies Inc. has spent the past nine years quietly working on miniature projectors designed to emit crisp videos and glasses-free 3-D images for smartphones and giant screens.
One chipset, small enough to fit into a smartphone, is capable of projecting video on a surface with a 48-inch diagonal.
that like Ostendo, is trying to bring 3d imaging to smartphones. Meanwhile, Facebook Inc. agreed in March to spend $2 billion to buy Oculus VR Inc.,maker of the Oculus Rift headset that pulls users into a 360-degree virtual environments.
Facebook CEO#Mark Zuckerberg#was convinced, in part of the value of virtual reality after he accidentally tried to set down a real world object on a virtual table
while testing the Oculus Rift, forgetting for a moment that the table didn t exist in the real world,
but has raised $90 million from venture-capital firms and Peter Thiel, Facebook s first outside investor,
or Darpa, the government s futurist agency that worked on the predecessor to the Internet and self-driving cars.
The Retina display on Apple Inc. s#iphone, for example, has about 300 dots per inch,
With a lens attached, it will be less than 0. 5 cubic centimeters, roughly the size of the camera in the#iphone.
and breed a wave of business opportunities, on scale with the introduction of the iphone.
and what it does is link your smart rifle s sight to your phone, tablet or Google glass.
By networking your sight and your headset, you see everything your gun does streamed in real time. Basically, when you want to give yourself your gun s POV,
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#Classcraft a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game Classcraft Shawn Young,
they ll be able to use their smartphones to keep up with the game too, with an ios app set for release and an Android version to follow.
something he believes is important in a 21st century that s proving a boom time for sharing, not least through social media.
Higuera told me via email. Before, some of my more apathetic students wouldn t care
and your smartphone will find it for you, up to a range of 50 to 150 feet.
But what makes this one different is that it also a social network of sorts. If your lost jacket isn in some mysterious corner of your home
their phones will beep and they can alert you to the jacket whereabouts. That why its creators, Mike Farley and Nick Evans, call it he world largest lost and found.
In 2013, Tile made news for being the most successful campaign to use open source crowdfunding software elfstarter, on its own website to raise funds.
Mason tells us he dabbles in some Angel investing, specifically nternet of Things (Iot) startups, companies making internet-controlled objects t
Set up by two former Google employees, it used remote sensing and other cartographic techniques to map every field in America (all 25m of them) and superimpose on that all the climate information that it could find.
and offers up-to-date data on the wearer mental and physical tiredness by linking the MEME to a smartphone feed.
An aluminium factory used to stand on the site but was closed down in 2007. The freshwater lagoon will be 300m long
#25%of patients now read online physician reviews There has always been a love/hate relationship between doctors and the Internet.
using online review sites. A recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan says 25 percent of Americans now look online for doctor reviews before making an appointment.
There are now 40 to 50 doctor-review sites for patients to choose from, the biggest among them being Healthgrades, Ratemds and Vitals.
Also, general review sites such as Yelp also offer ratings for medical practices and specific physicians. It gets better.
And doctors sometimes simply must give patients bad news. Some doctors believe bad news in the exam room can cause bad feelings that turn into bad reviews on sites like Healthgrades. com
. But the review sites are on the minds of doctors. Both the Congress of OBGYNS and the American Psychiatric Association have held panel discussions about online reviews at recent meetings
Pristine, and Google is involved not currently. In August, another 20 to 30 pairs will go to first-and second-year students, for use in anatomy labs, the medical simulation center, the ultrasound institute,
Google self-driving cars are legal and in use in several states at this point. As researchers, we are playing catch up trying to figure out the ethical and legal implications.
and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
via email. n fact there are no technical and economic obstacles to go first to 20 percent of annual electricity demand penetration rate from a combination of those two technologies,
While lithium ion batteries are the dominant batteries these days for laptops, cell phones and early electric cars,
While neither Kani or Nishina has a long background with battery chemistry (they hail from the telecom
Smartphones, for example, would be able to heal actual cracks in the casing, rather than micro-filling small scuffs and scratches that result from a pocket full of keys.
which was quickly moving to a web-based approach, business software was sold still in boxes.
and wanted to start selling takeout on the Web, you had to either buy a product that was compatible with your accounting software or basically run two sets of books.
there are millions of social media posts, customers filling out comment cards, mentions in mass media and on blog posts.
For a large enterprise, a keyword search would turn up thousands of hits per day. It simply not possible for a human to read it all but now machines can.
So, for example, customer service organizations can monitor the web for complaints in order to intervene and financial analysts can track sentiment on the companies they cover.
but can be accessed by anybody with an internet connection. That a real game changer. One thing is clear.
as well as offer the convenience of simple apps and websites. Simple provides mobile-first banking with no need to visit a branch, no hidden fees and great customer service.
there is an easy-to-use app or web-based money transfer service. Here in the UK, our challenger bank Virgin Money are disrupting that idea with stunning free lounges,
and sell on the go using smartphones. Clinkle is introducing a mobile wallet for day to day transactions
so rather than put your hand in your pocket for small amounts of cash you can just pay with your phone.
or delayed flights It can be hard to a book flight on an airline website,
Video) efore today, you had to go to our website or app to give us your flight information.
Airhelp CMO Nicolas Michaelsen told me in a phone interview before Disrupt. ow, you connect your Gmail account,
Digging through all your email could take a while. So after connecting to your Gmail account
Youl receive an email with interesting stats and potential claims a few hours later. After that, you have to give Airhelp the rights to handle the claims,
when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),
#$150 smartphone spectrometer can tell the number of calories in your food If you wanted to look up the calorie content of a specific food you are eating you could take it to a lab and run it through a spectrometer.
The SCIO is a handheld device that pairs with a smartphone through Bluetooth LE being developed by Consumer Physics
Consumer Physics will offer both Android and iphone apps, and also hopes to develop a platform upon
In a few seconds, the associated smartphone app will take the spectrometer reading, send it to SCIO servers,
It closer to the size of a smartphone camera module, and could one day be included in a variety of forms,
Some details about the evolution of the project over the last few years can be seen on our Glove Project Blog.
#Mayo Clinic s Better turns your smartphone into a personal health concierge The Mayo Clinic is offering unlimited access to the famed hospital nurses through a smartphone app for about $50 a month.
Fast Company has covered previously New york-based medical concierge service Sherpaa and Oscar, a new health insurer which tailors its products for web and mobile use.
or smartphone application is far less than a comparable standalone product, which requires far greater fees for the FDA process.
The Mayo Clinic is entering a crowded market of smartphone-based concierge medicine firms. Beyond Sherpaa, there also Grand Rounds, Stat Doctors, Doctor on Demand,
which offers subsidized concierge medicine services via smartphones for residents of British columbia. For Better, the Mayo Clinic,
the real (and unanswered) question is just how much of a market for their services really exists via smartphone apps s
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