A new company, Blue Frontiers, plans to build and operate floating islands in French Polynesia. The goal is to build about a dozen structures by 2020, including homes, hotels, offices and restaurants, at a cost of about $60 million. To fund the construction, the team is working on an initial coin offering. If all goes as planned, the structures will feature living roofs, use local wood, bamboo and coconut fiber, and recycled metal and plastic. Each will offer different ways of governance hoping that with more choices it will be more likely that there is peace, prosperity and innovation. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/business/dealbook/seasteading-floating-cities.html
Sainsbury in London charges for plastic bags and they?re not easily accessible. Instead you can buy a large, light, sturdy bag, at a small charge, that you can reuse.
The German startup ioxp develops training manuals that work with AR glasses to place step-by-step instructions directly into your field of vision. The software combines artificial intelligence with AR to produce a system that can quickly and easily understand almost any work environment and process and teach it to workers step-by-step. Besides the immediate self-supervision and the reduced error rate this system can greately contribute to workplace safety. www.ioxp.de
The World Press Photo 2017 exhibition showcases the winners of the 60th World Press Photo Awards, which honours the photographs that have best captured the state of the world in the past year.?In total, 152 photographs were selected from 80,408 images made by 5,034 photographers from 126 different countries. This photo, in the nature category, shows a keeper in a panda suit keeping a young panda away from human contact as part of training before being released into the wild in the Sichuan Basin, China. China?s efforts to eliminate poaching and to protect the panda?s habitat have played a large role in increasing numbers. www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2017/nature/ami-vitale
Soon, you'll be able to make payments to friends on an iPhone or Apple Watch via Apple Pay. In the meantime, a public beta will let "friends and family" test it pre-launch. Apple Pay users can already?make merchant payments. As an extension of this service iPhone users will be able to transact with?any?other iPhone user to make payments, receive payments, and use the card associated with their Apple Pay Cash account as a store of value. In summary, Apple is transforming into a bank. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/banking-apple-paul-shetler/?
Cue robots are small wheeled robots with sensors and controls which can be programmed from mobile phones. The aim is to teach STEM methodologies in a fun interactive manner to kids from 8 years old. You can choose from 4 unique avatars to customize Cue with different personalities. So far these robots have been introduced to 12,000 elementary schools in the US. https://www.makewonder.com/cue_the_cleverbot
