4 Ways to Improve Your Business Security

Most small businesses consider security to be an expensive, yet crucial, investment. Any brick-and-mortar business establishment, whether a small corner store or a multinational corporation, can become a potential target for theft or fraud. As a business owner, you are responsible for the livelihood and safety of your employees. Therefore, taking preventative steps will help guarantee the security of your […]

How to Turn Sci-Fi Technologies Into Real Business Ideas

Science fiction is a popular genre, which means most people grew up watching or reading about fantastic technological developments of the far-off future. In “The Jetsons,” viewers saw personal aircraft and watches with amazing capabilities; in “Star Trek” characters enjoyed natural-sounding conversations with their computers and could create anything using their replicators. When they first appeared on screen, these gadgets […]

How To Promote Innovative Thinking

Sometimes, it can seem like your brain is teeming with thousands of ‘useless’ ideas that you do not actually need at the time. But, when you are asked to come up with an innovative business idea – whether as part of a marketing campaign for your current business or because you want to create a new, niche business from scratch […]

Rewritable Paper

Developing efficient photoreversible color switching systems for constructing rewritable paper is of significant practical interest owing to the potential environmental benefits including forest conservation, pollution reduction, and resource sustainability. Here we report that the color change associated with the redox chemistry of nanoparticles of Prussian blue and its analogues could be integrated with the photocatalytic activity of TiO2 nanoparticles to […]

Facial Recognition for Boarding

Dutch airline KLM has started a pilot project to see if facial recognition software would make boarding any easier and quicker for passengers. The “biometric boarding” technology has been designed so that passengers do not have to show their passport or boarding pass at the gate. The system has been installed at a single gate at the airline’s home airport of Schiphol […]

Fueled by Food Waste

A British supermarket chain has been combatting food waste in more ways than one. Waitrose, the sixth largest grocery retailer in the United Kingdom with 350 stores, began selling “ugly” produce—often discarded for their imperfectness—at a discounted price last year. Before that, five years ago, the company also halted the practice of sending food waste to landfills. Waitrose also aims […]