A venture capital company identifies entrepreneurs and offers them funding even before the entrepreneurs know they are entrepreneurs! Imagine you are sitting on your front porch when a dump truck rolls up. It backs into your driveway and dumps a mountain of $100 bills onto it. Then the driver walks up to you and says,…
Here’s the house: 3D printed 5 storey apartment building by WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co, Shanghai, China (WinSun Co.) It was made by WinSun WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co, Shanghai, China using their massive (perhaps the largest in the world) 3D printer, 20 feet tall, 33 feet wide, and 132 feet long. One of the…
Some years back, Domino’s decided to get feedback from their customers, then mine that data to improve revenues. They put a survey on their website asking customers to rate their purchase. They also collected social media postings about them. The result: people were significantly disgruntled with their pizza, especially the crust and the sauce. They…
Commander Barry Wilmore in the International Space Station with the 3D-printed wrench Earlier in this blog we had mentioned how preparations were being made to enable 3D printing in space. 3D printing in space is now been there, done that. A small ratchet wrench has been successfully 3D printed at the International Space Station (ISS)…
Everyone loves pop-tarts, especially the strawberry kind. And Walmart decided to take this to the next level with a little help from Big Data. As you may have heard, Walmart tirelessly collects data on each of its customers, then crunches it to arrive at individual and group preferences. This process recently unearthed the fact…