Enterprise Explores

Seeing as it’s Christmas Eve, nothing feels more appropriate than to celebrate some of the wonderful innovations from 2018 that helped to make the world a better place.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you want to learn how to play the guitar, sure you can take it slowly and you'll become a master after more than a year of work. But as a business owner or professional with so much on your plate already, you don't have that much time to learn and practice a new skill. You've got to master it quickly in order to keep up with industry trends and the competition.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You never know when a disaster in any form will strike and how that might affect your business. So how do you prepare your small enterprise for an emergency situation?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Organisations are facing an employee burnout crisis. A recent Gallup study of nearly 7,500 full-time employees found that 23% of employees reported feeling burned out at work very often or always, while an additional 44% reported feeling burned out sometimes. That means about two-thirds of full-time workers experience burnout on the job.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 When that midnight craving hits, chances are you’re gonna reach for a sweet and satiating night time snack like ice cream.  The problem is, all that fat and sugar right before bed is actually disruptive to catching those zzzs. And that’s why functional food startup Nightfoods has created a line of what it calls “sleep-friendly” ice cream.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Going to the toilet in China might not be quite what you’re used to. Since the first toilet in Beijing’s Temple of Heaven Park got a face scanning machine in 2017, public lavatories across China are being transformed. Just this week, local state media praised two face scanning toilet endeavors for being “clean and convenient” and “reducing toilet paper waste.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A biotech company in China is offering pet cloning services to those who can afford it. After successfully cloning an aging celebrity dog, the company known as Siogene might be the go-to for pet owners who never wish to part with (versions of) their furry friends.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some works of art are far too fragile and difficult to upkeep to be seen in real life. One solution to this? A virtual museum by way of an app, called “Meet Vermeer”, which displays the Dutch artist’s work in finer detail than we could see with the naked eye.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

China REALLY wants its electric cars, so much that the government is willing to ban new car factories that aren’t focused on assembling electric vehicles.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fast food chains in the US have started using facial recognition to significantly reduce order-and-wait times. On the flipside, outlets are also planning to apply the technology to detect criminals in their stores.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.