The Hershey Company is hiring a futurist.
The Hershey Company is it the largest chocolate manufacturer in the United States, selling 40 percent of domestic dark chocolate. But Hershey also operates a store/museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania. And one in Times Square. And one in Las Vegas. And they also operate an amusement park.
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Matter.io wants to be the Instagram to traditional 3D modeling’s Photoshop.
A startup connected to MIT’s Media Lab, Matter.i0, is on a mission to lure more folks into 3D printing by providing user-friendly design software – software that vastly simplifies 3D modeling.
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Thanks to the disruption that the Internet, mobile phones, and social media are all bringing to the shopping experience retail is at a reset moment. It means the entire supply chain — retailers, suppliers, and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) — has to become more efficient, competitive, and knowledgeable to be able attract and keep customers.
Continue reading… “Retailers should be embracing the omnichannel”
Steve Perlman
Steve Perlman, the iconic Silicon Valley inventor, is ready to give you a personal cell phone signal that follows you from place to place, a signal thats about 1,000 times faster than what you have today because you shouldn’t have to share it with anyone else.
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Yan Qu and Clement Cid spend a lot more time thinking about poop than your average academics. The pair, both at Caltech, are part of a team working on what could be the future of bathrooms: a self-cleaning, solar-powered toilet that turns human waste into hydrogen and fertilizer.
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Lifestyle, fitness and medical are the most popular market areas targeted.
Wearable tech research and consulting firm Vandrico has put together this an overview of the wearable landscape — tracking the number of devices in existence; areas of market focus; and even which parts of the body are being targeted most.
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Philips has announced that it is piloting a system in which LED store lamps track shoppers. Shoppers would first have to download the store’s app. Once they do, every lamp in the store is able to communicate with the shoppers’ phones using pulses of light the human eye can’t detect. The lamps know whether someone is in the produce section or the peanut butter aisle… and in response, the app can call up killer deals on bananas or jelly, depending.
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Hangar One
What would you do with a 350,000-square-foot hangar built to house helium airships for the U.S. Navy if you were Google, Inc.? Would you use the cavernous interior for building and testing new robots, planetary rovers and other space or aviation technology?
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Self-driving office
For Regus, which operates close to 2,000 business centers globally, the office of the future it isn’t one where workers stand, walk, or even squat. Regus envisions a world in which people are sitting–in a self-driving office, that is.
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Bitcoin will start its transformation from a mere currency into an entire open-source.
Bitcoin’s valuation didn’t just skyrocket in 2013, but its infrastructure, services, and adoption exploded as well, culminating in recent announcements that major online retailer Overstock.com and NBA team the Sacramento Kings would accept the digital currency as payment.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: In 1998, a column I wrote for The Futurist Magazine took issue with the state of computer displays. Viewing the vast and growing Internet through a little square box on our desk was, in my opinion, the equivalent of watching a baseball game through a knothole.
Continue reading… “Creating the God Globe”
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world’s largest solar power plant, takes 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, each 7 feet high and 10 feet wide and controls them with computers to focus the Sun’s light to the top of 459-foot towers where water is turned into steam to power turbines. (Photos)
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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