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A smart fitting room
The Oak Mirror is an interactive, touch-screen mirror that allows you to customize your fitting room's ambiance, explore product recommendations and digitally seek assistance from store sales people. Ralph Lauren was one of the first brands to use it. www.oaklabs.is
3 September 2017 by lauralaura-co...

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Colour for the colour-blind
EnChroma Labs is dedicated to developing everyday sunglasses for the 300 million people in the world with color vision deficiency. They sell glasses with sporty and trendy Ray-Ban-like frames. Photo-The left shows what a wearer with red-green colour blindness would typically see. The right shows what they see while wearing the sunglasses. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientist-accidentally-developed-sunglasses-that-could-correct-color-blindness-180954456/#jGD4B7Bw56ZhMGiq.99
3 September 2017 by lauralaura-co...

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A ski-through ATM
A ski-through automatic teller machine (ATM) is now open in the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort. It provides all of the services a regular machine does and should be useful for people needing cash before heading down the mountain for aprs-ski. https://www.springwise.com/canadian-ski-resort-now-ski-atm/
3 September 2017 by lauralaura-co...

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More secure passwords
Instead of requiring a typed password or a fingerprint, new security software asks the user to speak or mouth a password directly at a device's camera. Because this verification method is based on two things ? lip motions and the correct password content ? the system is doubly secure. https://futurism.com/lip-reading-computers-could-spell-the-end-of-passwords-as-we-know-them/
3 September 2017 by lauralaura-co...

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A trip into the future of transport
The transport infrastructure for City One (a city in 2050) is shown along with an example lunch trip. I don't see anyone driving cars. You could imagine this city being built in China where they already have maglev (magnetic levitation) trains. http://www.innovationfuturespecialist.co.uk/gallery/cityone.html
3 September 2017 by lauralaura-co...

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A hotel room that floats on water
You'll soon be able to sleep on a bed in a floating capsule and look into the stars while it drifts to an island overnight. That?s the experience a major theme park in Nagasaki Prefecture plans to offer you by the end of this year. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/06/business/huis-ten-bosch-inn-boast-spheric-sleeping-capsules-drift-isle-attactions/
3 September 2017 by lauralaura-co...