Month: February 2019

Artificial Intelligence creates food images from written recipes

ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Uncategorized’, ‘article’, ‘article-industry-impression’, {nonInteraction: true}); Spotted: Three computer scientists at Tel Aviv University – Ori Bar El, Ori Licht, and Netanel Yosephian – have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm to make food images from written recipes. They fed a computer ingredients and instructions only, with no visual cues like recipe titles. The computer…

By jrtrombold@gmail.com February 5, 2019 Off

L’Oréal sensor matches products to skin type

ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Uncategorized’, ‘article’, ‘article-industry-impression’, {nonInteraction: true}); Spotted: L’Oréal, through its skincare brand, La-Roche Posay, is piloting a patch-like sensor called My Skin Track pH. The tiny device reveals your skin’s health in minutes and helps identify suitable skincare products. Cosmetics companies have long touted “pH balanced” products, but until now measuring your skin’s pH level required lots of…

By jrtrombold@gmail.com February 4, 2019 Off

Architects use knitted fibres to make a building column

ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Uncategorized’, ‘article’, ‘article-industry-impression’, {nonInteraction: true}); Spotted: Architects Bastian Beyer and Daniel Suarez have turned soft knitted fibres into hard materials. These could potentially be used in construction to make spatial dividers, columns, roofs and walls. Here’s how it works: A soft textile structure is sprayed with an active bacteria culture, which reacts to a secondary treatment, creating a hard useable building column.…

By jrtrombold@gmail.com February 4, 2019 Off

​Survey: The rise of industrial IoT

The infrastructure around the world is being linked together via sensors, machine learning, and analytics, which means that industrial Internet of Things (IoT) deployments are increasing. This should come to no surprise since industrial IoT holds great potential for enhancing quality control, sustainable practices, supply chain, data analysis, inefficiencies and more. More about IoT What…

By jrtrombold@gmail.com February 1, 2019 Off

Wearable instruments enable colour-based music creation

ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Uncategorized’, ‘article’, ‘article-industry-impression’, {nonInteraction: true}); Music is one of the most common means for omnipresent technology in our daily lives. Headphones and mobile speakers have evolved into audio sunglasses and personalised car stereos to mean that there never needs to be a time when we are without audio. But what of creating music?…

By jrtrombold@gmail.com February 1, 2019 Off

Football team goes virtual to attract fans

ga(‘send’, ‘event’, ‘Uncategorized’, ‘article’, ‘article-industry-impression’, {nonInteraction: true}); eSport organisations have seen the value in online interaction to boost real-life engagement. From an AI chatbot to a social platform, technology ushers fans into greater communication with the brand as a whole. Now a British football team is seeking to engage with the Chinese market in a…

By jrtrombold@gmail.com February 1, 2019 Off