Startup Technology: Physiotherapy could be done at home using virtual reality

#vr #virtualreality #health #healthcare #physiotherapy #3D #technology #startupideas #healthtech

Virtual reality could help physiotherapy patients complete their exercises at home successfully thanks to researchers at WMG, University of Warwick, who managed to combine VR technology with 3-D motion capture.

Currently prescribed physiotherapy often requires patients to complete regular exercises at home. Outside of the clinic, patients rarely receive any guidance other than a leaflet of sketches or static photographs to instruct them how to complete their exercises. This leads to poor adherence, with patients becoming anxious about not getting the exercise right, or simply getting bored by the repetitiveness of the movements.

Key takeaway:

They found that participants struggled to keep in time if only visual information was present. However, when they added realistic footstep sounds in addition to the visual information, the more realistic multisensory information allowed participants to accurately follow the virtual avatar.

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Physiotherapy could be done at home using virtual reality

February 28, 2020 University of Warwick Virtual reality could help physiotherapy patients complete their exercises at home successfully thanks to researchers at WMG, University of Warwick, who managed to combine VR technology with 3-D motion capture. Currently prescribed physiotherapy often requires patients to complete regular exercises at home.

Agriculture: Dwindling bee pollination serious concern for sustainable agriculture and food production

#agriculture #yield #organicfarming #pollination #bees #honeybees

A large proportion of agricultural yield in crop farming, gardening and fruit production depends on pollination by bees. The crop yield is significantly higher with pollination by bees. This applies to all kinds of fruit such as apples, strawberries and cherries, almost all oilseeds such as rapeseed, linseed and safflower, and all kinds of vegetables such as beans, peas and cucumbers. The seed production of fodder crops and vegetables also benefits from bee pollination.

The flowers that are pollinated by bees form fruit that is much larger, heavier and better shaped. They are also much better quality.

The increase in yield in some of the crops due to bee pollination:-

1. Mustard - 43%

2. Sunflower - 32-48%

3. Cotton - 17-19%

4. Onion - 93%

5. Apple - 44%

With increased use of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, bee population has been declining effecting our food production. So, natural organic farming combined with placing bee hives in proper place in the agricultural fields improves yield drastically.

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TNAU Agritech Portal :: Sustainable Agriculture

Bee visits plants for its food, nectar and pollen. This floral fidelity of bees is due to their preference for nectars having sugar contents and pollens with higher nutritive values. Besides getting food for the bees as a result of their visit pollinate a number of crops.

Startup Stories: Jupiter wants to put grocery delivery on autopilot

#grocery #food #delivery #ecommerce #startupideas

Somebody in India can try similar model as Indian affluent also want their grocery and vegetables delivered automatically every month or week as per standard menu (which can be edited till a date every month or week), not only at their doorsteps but also to be stuffed in fridges and other cup boards within their homes.

It is asset heavy due to central warehouse hubs and may be capital intensive to expand to more than one city.

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Jupiter wants to put grocery delivery on autopilot

Amid shelter-in-place, grocery delivery has had a huge spike in popularity, leading investors to take a look at services that approach the market differently than incumbents like Instacart. Jupiter is a grocery delivery and meal planning startup that's approaching the market with an eye towar...

Statistics That Matter for Startups: Facts and figures for Surfactants and Bio-Surfactants

#startupideas #TAM #market #surfactants #biosurfactants #statisticsthatmatter


SURFACTANTS: FACTS AND FIGURES


Surfactants can be found in countless products in daily use all over the world. But the sales markets are changing—and so are the customers’ requirements. An overview of the facts and figures t help those who wants to venture into bio-surfactants field. The annual sales of bio-surfactants are expected to increase from $4.2 bn in 2017 to $5.52 in 2022 at a compounded annual growth rate of 5.6%.

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Surfactants: Facts and figures

Which sectors use the most surfactants? How is the global market developing? And what potential have biosurfactants? A numerical overview.

Startup Funding Alert: Canva, a startup for non-designers to design, raises $60 million on a $6 billion valuation

#startups #designs #saas #unicorns #unicornclub #startupideas

Any SaaS startup venture, which enables non-designers to design their requirements like sales pamphlets, is an opportunity even in India. Please listen to this.

Sydney-based Canva, the design platform for non-designers, has announced the close of a $60 million funding round, bringing its valuation to $6 billion, according to the company.

Canva was founded in 2012 with the mission of democratizing design tools. While many non-designers can navigate their way around Google Slides or PowerPoint, or maybe even crop an image, going more in-depth on a design project can be daunting, as the suite of tools provided to designers can be incredibly complex.

The company’s tools are meant to simplify the design process for folks who don’t work in the design department, whether it’s the sales team putting together sales materials, marketers working on content or other departments working on internal materials to send to the broader organization. The drag-and-drop interface gives folks a way to create something beautiful and impressive without having to learn Photoshop.

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Canva raises $60 million on a $6 billion valuation

Sydney-based Canva, the design platform for non-designers, has today announced the close of a $60 million funding round, bringing its valuation to $6 billion, according to the company. The startup has raised a total of more than $300 million, including this latest round of financing, from investors...

Funding Alert: US-based Gesture Raises $1M for its On-Demand Gifting App

#fundingalert #startupfunding #gifts #startupideas #ecommerce #aggregator

Startup: Gesture

Sector: eCommerce

Segment: Gifting

Gesture raises $1M for its On-Demand Gifting App That Takes an Uber-Like Approach.

Gesture is the on-demand mobile gift delivery platform that allows consumers to select gifts from an inventory of pre-selected items that can be delivered in less than 30 minutes. This gifting on-demand solution starts at $20 and helps people gift for a variety of occasions including birthdays, thank you’s, and “just because.” Gesture presently delivers in over 30 cities across the United States such as New York, Miami, Atlanta, and more.

Its customers send flowers, wine, champagne, and other thoughtful gifts, all starting at $20 with free delivery, and delivered in one hour or less.

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Gesture Raises $1M for its On-Demand Gifting App - AlleyWatch

Our society has progressed in so many ways; the iPhone in your pocket is estimated to have at least 100,000 times the processing power of the Apollo 11 computer that helped astronauts land on the moon 50 years ago. Yet we still wait until the last minute to do our shopping.

Holographic Technology: Samsung Submits Patent Application for VR Eyeglasses To Display Turn-by-Turn Navigation for Drivers

#holographic #holography #technology #automobiles #vr #virtualreality #HUD #startupideas #ar #augmentedreality

The global market for automotive AR & VR solutions is expected to reach about $673 billion by 2025 according to Statista, with a compound annual growth rate of 175%.

Electronics company Samsung came up with a unique solution that may one day help drivers for more safety navigation. The company applied for a patent recently for a pair of virtual reality (VR) glasses that projects turn-by-turn navigation directly onto the lenses in for the driver.

The glasses work like the head-up-display (HUD) in some vehicles that displays information, such as the current speed, directly on the windshield in front of the driver. Instead of projecting the information onto the windshield, it can be sent to a pair of virtual reality glasses that the driver wears while they are navigating a route.

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Samsung Submits Patent Application for VR Eyeglasses That Can Display Turn-by-Turn Navigation for Drivers

Electronics company Samsung came up with a unique solution that may one day help drivers more safety navigate. The company applied for a patent for a pair of virtual reality (VR) glasses that projects turn-by-turn navigation directly onto the lenses in for the driver.

Startup Technology: Stamping Out Counterfeit Goods with Blockchain Technology and Internet of Things (IoT)

#blockchain #blockchaintech #startupideas #technology #counterfeits #fakes #seconds #iot #duplicates #pharma #electronics #luxurygoods

Counterfeiting is a massive economic problem that results in billions of dollars in lost business revenues each year, and it exposes corporations to fraudulent materials and defective parts.

Within the global pharma space, between $75 billion and $200 billion in counterfeit drugs are sold each year. In the electronics industry, fake parts cost component manufacturers about $100 billion annually. And in the European luxury goods market, about 10% of all items for sale are counterfeited, representing approximately $28 billion in lost value.

IoT provides unique identification and traceability, and blockchain provides a tamperproof chain of custody information. Pairing them can create a shared, distributed ledger capable of recording the origin, location, and ownership of raw materials and products at each stage of the value chain—giving manufacturers, partners, and customers the transparency and authentication they need. Blockchain with IoT, because of its ability to immutably track and share genealogy across multiple stakeholders, can inhibit counterfeiting in ways that traditional technologies cannot.

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Stamping Out Counterfeit Goods with Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT)

Over the past year, Boston Consulting Group and Cisco Systems have explored the promise and impact of blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT). The result is a three-part series that studies the practical applications and economic benefits of using blockchain with distributed IoT networks.

Startup Ideas: 24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World - CB Insights Research

CB Insights gives us insightful article on the 24 areas where there will be tailwinds due to #coronavirus outbreak. So, anybody does have any question regarding whether his or her venture will succeed or not, he or she can look out whether their product, service or process belongs to any one or more of these areas.

All the best!

These are:-

1. Telehealth technology

2. Continuous & remote diagnostics

3. Teletherapy

4. Virtual fitness & gyms

5. Senior care & aging in place

6. Telecommuting tech

7. Enterprise virtual reality

8. Remote learning technology

9. Online courses & content

10. 3D printing

11. Industrial automation & robotics

12. Online grocery

13. Enhanced e-commerce

14. Conversational AI/chatbots

15. Cloud call centers

16. Contactless payments

17. Branchless banking

18. Parametric insurance

19. Personal surveillance technology

20. Distributed cybersecurity

21. Social online gaming

22. Virtual events

23. Restaurant & grocery delivery

24. Cloud kitchens

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World - CB Insights Research

In industries from healthcare to education to finance to manufacturing, quarantine is forcing companies to use technology to reimagine nearly every facet of their operations. As reopening begins in fits and starts, we analyze the industries poised to thrive in a post-Covid world.

Startup Ideas: Low salary earners need innovative FinTech solutions for their financial needs

The salaries/wages the average Indian regular employee is earning could look like pittance to the urban eye. The earnings of as many as 45 per cent of regular workers in India were below Rs 10,000 per month during the survey period (2017-18), the PLFS (Periodic Labour Force Survey - https://lnkd.in/gUi8sW6) data showed. Around 12% of workers were paid less than Rs 5,000 a month.

So, there are many millions of regular employees who are in the pay bracket of Rs 5000 to Rs 25000 per month in India. These employees, though require money every week for their day to day expenses, have to wait get till the end of the month or first week of next month for their salaries / wages.

This situation gives a scope for startups to start "pay as you earn" concept, wherein these employees are paid every week in advance by a fintech startup with nominal interest arbitrage and startup is paid directly by the employer after the end of month. Here, the scope for bad debts is very low. Think over it guys and girls out there.

All the best!

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How much do the salaried really earn? Here are the most detailed findings yet

The issue of jobs - or rather the lack of them - has dominated India's economic discourse for quite a while. But while the headline employment/unemployment numbers routinely grab the headlines, there is another equally important set of numbers - who gets paid how much - that doesn't usually draw similar attention.

Startup Ideas:- The gig economy of street vendors and hawkers throws opportunities for FinTech startups for a win-win situation

According to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, there are 10 million street vendors in India, with Mumbai accounting for 250,000, Delhi has 450,000, Kolkata, more than 150,000, and Ahmedabad, 100,000. Most of them are immigrants or laid-off workers, work for an average 10–12 hours a day, and remain impoverished. In India, street vending makes up 14% of total (non-agricultural) urban informal employment.

These street vendors or hawkers require daily finance, which is now provided by nearby private money lenders at at an exorbitantly high interest rates as high as 10% daily. For example, a hawker requires Rs 1000 for the day, he gets Rs 900 in the morning after deducting that day’s interest. In the evening, he has to deposit Rs 1000 with the lender. This routine repeats everyday. There is also a rent for trolly used for business as well.

Covid times impacted these communities very hard. Govt announced a package where these small vendors will get a working capital loan of Rs 10000 with a moratorium of 1 yr.

So, there is a tremendous scope and market opportunity for startups to provide FinTech solutions to these micro retailers so that it is a win-win situation for both.

All the best!

Tracxn: Top Indoor Positioning System Startups

Theme: Indoor Positioning Systems

Source: Tracxn

Business models evolve with time, sometimes due to changes in the market and sometimes due to advent of technology, resulting in emergence of new exciting trends. Tracxn closely tracks the startup ecosystem from across the world and they have come across a whole lot of interesting new themes which are gaining popularity, one of them being Indoor Positioning System.

Globally there are 96 Indoor Positioning System companies, and here is the list of the 10 most interesting ones:

Top Indoor Positioning System Startups

Last Updated: January 17, 2020 Business models evolve with time, sometimes due to changes in the market and sometimes due to advent of technology, resulting in emergence of new exciting trends. We at Tracxn closely track the startup ecosystem from across the world and we have come across a whole lot of interesting new themes which are gaining popularity, one of them being Indoor Positioning System.

Startup Ideas - Blockchain based distributed super-computing technologies

As the quantum of information and also required computing power for #AI and #ML applications has been increasing, there is a need everywhere for faster computing power, which may be costly affair. However, #blockchain technology allows to increase computing power without huge investments in the computing infrastructure. In fact, #blockchain technology can be used to create a super computer by sitting in our office from combining the computing power of all idle computing capacity of desktops, laptops and mobiles located anywhere in the world by using distributed #blockchain technology.

The persons making available these computing capacities are paid based on PoW (Proof of Work) basis. So our old computers or laptops in the backyard or idle capacity during night time can be used to get additional revenues. Of course, the trade off is between revenues and electricity bills for power consumption.

One such white paper can be downloaded from https://conun.io

Indian villages can give us tremendous opportunity to develop native herbal medicines

Based on my personal childhood experience in my village, it can be said that Indian villages have vast reservoirs of traditional medical knowledge in using natural herbs and plants for curing wounds/injuries/diseases. Unfortunately, we don't have sufficient research material on the therapeutic value of these native plants and herbs. Rather, as requested by our PM, Shri Naredra Modiji, we should show case this traditional knowledge to the western world on a scientific basis.

While I was in 3rd or 4th standard, a big thorn got into my left sole and it was difficult and painful to take it out immediately. So, a local guy applied paste of Nallalam, (also known as Putlaputlam or Gaddi Chamanthi), a wild plant (small shrub) available in Telangana, to the sole and wrapped a cloth around it. After few days, thorn came out without any pain by squeezing it, as the sole area had become pale yellow and very soft.

In fact, Nallalam (tridax procumbens) clots the blood immediately in case of an accident or cuts; allows the skin layers to form immediately in one or two days of accidents or wounds. The scars out of pimples, wounds and burns would be cured or minimized. Most of the skin problems are curable with these leaves.

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