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Artistic

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A new fashion styling service
Style Board is Nordstrom?s latest curation service. It offers a team of online personal stylists who will handpick items?clothing, accessories, jewelry?based on a questionnaire that helps them better understand your personal style. Within less than a day, the stylist emails you a ?board? of curated designs, which will then wait for you in a dressing room. Should you want further expertise, a stylist will assist you in Nordstrom Local ?another Nordstrom initiative that offers services rather than inventory. https://www.fastcompany.com/90180401/exclusive-nordstom-expands-its-innovative-inventory-free-service-hubs?
22 July 2018 by lynnwood

Industrial

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An emergency button for Uber drivers
People should feel safe in their work. An emergency button is needed for drivers plus a way to select passengers who are less likely to pose a security threat. https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/female-ride-share-drivers-campaign-for-safer-working-conditions-20180718-p4zs96.html
20 July 2018 by lynnwood

Startup

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An app that helps to create better relationships - two minutes at a time
"The most fundamental finding from positive psychology is that strong personal relationships have the greatest impact on your sati
20 July 2018 by take-two

Industrial

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A new standard for roads- net zero
The Ray is a proving ground for evolving ideas and technologies that could transform the transportation infrastructure of the future. New ideas and technologies are being implemented to create a regenerative highway ecosystem on The Ray?s 18 miles of West Georgia?s I-85, and the land and communities surrounding it. Their vision for roads of the future includes Zero Deaths. Zero Waste. Zero Carbon. Zero Impact. http://theray.org/
20 July 2018 by lynnwood

Healthcare

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Reviving damaged heart tissues
Researchers are planning transplants that may revive tissues thought to be hopelessly damaged, including the heart and brain. The plan is to infuse mitochondria or a placebo solution into the coronary arteries of people having bypass surgery or ? an even more dire situation for the heart ? having both bypass and valve surgery. The patients would be those whose hearts are so damaged that it would be difficult to wean them from heart-lung machines after surgery. For these patients, mitochondrial transplants are an appealing option. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/health/mitochondria-transplant-heart-attack.html?
20 July 2018 by IdeaSpies

Industrial

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Cockroach-like robots to fix plane engines
Rolls-Royce believes these tiny insect-inspired robots will save engineers time by serving as their eyes and hands within the tight confines of an airplane?s engine. The company plans to mount a camera on each robot to?allow engineers to see what?s going on inside an engine without have to take it apart. Rolls-Royce thinks it could even train its?cockroach-like robots to complete repairs. https://futurism.com/cockroach-robots-rolls-royce/
20 July 2018 by IdeaSpies