iPad foosball table
If you found it hard to give up foosball after you graduated from college and you just don’t have room for one now, all you need now is an iPad and a willing opponent.
90% of young adults sleep with their smartphones
Half of people check their phones immediately if they wake up during the night.
A new infographic by Online Psychology Degree shows the extent to which smartphones have basically become a new bodily appendage: (Infographic)
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EyeSee – seeing-eye mannequins that check out customers for age, sex, and race
Seeing-eye mannequins
The high-fashion mannequin maker Almax has released the new $5000 EyeSee mannequins. The mannequins contain cameras in their eyes that are connected to facial recognition software that analyzes customers’ faces, classifying them by age, sex, race, and ethnicity. The cameras also can tell merchandisers when the store is getting crowded, and what products or clothing are attracting the most attention.
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Chinese e-commerce company had $3 billion in sales in just one day
Three billion dollars is almost triple the entire 2011 Black Friday sales of e-commerce sites in the United States.
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba shocked the web last week with the news that its subsidiaries Taobao (like a Chinese eBay) and T-mall (like Amazon) sold a massive $3.06 billion in product in a single 24-hour period.
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Jalapeno Kibbles n Bits with Built-in Flamethrowers never really took off.
Something about hand-grenade hairballs making their way into the sock drawers!
Quote of the Day: “The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.” – Paula Poundstone
Social media in the workplace – Is anyone actually working?
Everyone spends their time discussing the work they should be doing rather than actually doing it.
It seems like almost everyone is social today. Every minute, Twitter users average 100,000 tweets, Facebook users post 684,478 pieces of content, Tumblr blog owners publish 27,778 new posts and Flickr users add 3,125 new photos. Facebook and Twitter are great tools for connecting and communicating with people in our social lives, or for brands communicating with customers, the real value of pure-play social tools as standalone applications within a business has yet to be proven.
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Will Microsoft lose the next generation of computer users to Apple?
The iPad is the number one product people want in the next year.
According to the latest data from Nielsen, Apple is going to dominate holiday shopping in the U.S., once again. (Chart)
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The world’s top cities for startups
Silicon Valley tops the list.
The world’s unquestionable leader in generating high-tech start-ups that launch new technologies that change the way we live and work is Silicon Valley. Many cities around the world have tried to emulate its success. But until recently, the data has been lacking to calibrate and rank how far they have come.
Wharton School and startup Evolv use big data to predict when you will quit your job
“These models will predict your likelihood of separating from your employer based on everything we know about you and the position.”
You did everything by the book when you went in for that job interview. But, after going through all the effort, would you feel slighted if the interviewer made the ultimate decision about whether or not to hire you based on an algorithm?
NASA launches Big Data Challenge
NASA launches Big Data Challenge Series
NASA along with a couple other government agencies have kicked off a series of TopCoder challenges designed to find innovative solutions to the government’s big data problems. The first contest is all about making disparate, incompatible data sets usable and actually valuable across agencies.
Boom in app development lures coders but it’s tough to make a living
Software engineers now outnumber farmers and have almost caught up with lawyers.
Over the last two years Shawn and Stephanie Grimes have spent much of their time in pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation.
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Ray Kurzweil talks about the future workforce
What impact will advancing technologies have on employment?
Singularity University’s Vice President of Innovation and Research, Vivek Wadhwa, has written about why he believes this will be the most innovative decade in human history and how we are headed for an era of abundant and affordable health care, and how robotics, artificial intelligence and 3D printing will lead to an era of local manufacturing in which the creative class flourishes.
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