The Min7 portable speaker is different to most. It's made of wood, but instead of plumping for one type of wood, its makers have used wood splicing technology. This means they used some teak, oak and walnut, of the kind you'd use for ...
Tags: Min7, Wooden speaker, Furniture
This week, Billy Langsworthy looks at why the toy space should be excited at some of the new VR tech being showcased at this year's Game Developers Conference. Oh, and there's a bit about a vagina speaker. You've been warned. This week, ...
Tags: Inventors, Virtual reality
Mercedes-Benz Style has joined hands with Italian light design company Artemide and the two companies will showcase their latest product at the “Light + Building” trade fair in Frankfurt. It embodies the Mercedes-Benz design ...
Tags: VMercedes-Benz, Artemide, Frankfurt, Light, Building
The concept would give the user the ability to incorporate the 3D scan of their favourite toy into a game, or output it to a 3D printer. Hasbro has filed a patent for a new tech that allows kids to 3D scan their favourite toys to their ...
Tags: Hasbro, 3D Scanning, 3D printing
A wide-format inkjet manufacturer Roland has launched the TrueVIS VG series 64" and 54" printer/cutters, a new generation of advanced eco-solvent inkjets to be released under the TrueVIS brand name. According to Andrew Oransky, Roland ...
Tags: Roland DGA, TrueVIS VG, Printer
Toyota is geared up to debut its Setsuna concept car at the Milan Design Week, primarily made of wood. Toyota says that wood has been used for construction of this car because it is durable yet is prone to changes over time. To ...
The Oculus Touch controllers for the Oculus Rift VR headset will not launch until the second half of 2016, the Facebook-owned company announced on Thursday. Oculus VR says it needs more tome to ‘perfect’ the handheld Touch ...
Tags: Oculus Touch, VR headset
Venture capital (VC) firm Sequoia Capital has invested in a craft beer brand Bira 91, which aims to capture the growing demand for craft beer in the urban market of India. Venture capital (VC) firm Sequoia Capital has invested in a ...
Tags: Craft Beer, urban market
The laughing crying emoji, or the 'face with tears of joy' emoji, has become one of 2015's most frequently used "word" on social media with a reach of 6.5 billion on Twitter, according to German communication agency Faktor3. This emoji is ...
Tags: laughing crying emoji, emoji
A draft amendment to the population and family planning law is being discussed by the top legislature. Along with the universal two-child policy, the amendment covers issues including illegal surrogacy and the cancellation of extended ...
Tags: Surrogacy, Late Marriage
Do you feel like you’re being left behind by the modern penchant for emojis over the written word? Well a new app is coming to the rescue this festive season. The SpeakEmoji app for iOS and Android enables emojiphobes to simply ...
Tags: emojis, The SpeakEmoji, Consumer Electronics
In midsummer 2015, the so-called South China Sea arbitration hearing that the Philippines had been clamoring for and brewing in the past two years finally started. Recently, the relevant arbitral tribunal held this so-called hearing in The ...
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A participant writes Chinese character "biang" during a Writing "Biang" event held in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, April 13, 2014. Voting for The Chinese Character and Chinese Word of the Year 2015 launched on Nov ...
Tsethang serge, considered the finest of all Tibetan traditional fabrics, has reemerged decades after disappearing from the market. Traditionally reserved for lords and high-ranking monks, Tsethang serge has been a symbol of status in ...
Tags: Traditional Weaving, Tibet
The word of the year isn't a word at all, according to Merriam-Webster dictionaries: It's a suffix, "ism." The editors of Merriam-Webster found that three little letters kept appearing at the end of words their users were looking up in ...
Tags: Webster's Word, ISM