Interview: Ivy Ross, Google’s Head of Hardware Design

How the former head of Glass is turning the company into a product design powerhouse

In her role as VP of Hardware Design at Google, Ivy Ross brings creative expertise in everything from fashion and jewelry to toys and art and even sound healing and Mien Shiang (the Chinese art of face-reading). She dropped out of college right before graduating to open a design concept store in NYC, but still managed to attend Harvard Business School and was recently given …

The Most Funded App Campaign in Kickstarter History, Fluent Forever

Based on the bestselling 2014 book by Gabriel Wyner, the forthcoming Fluent Forever app (which has amassed a record-setting $507,495, or more than double its goal, and is still funding) approaches language lessons differently than everyone else. First, it trains users in proper pronunciation. Then it proceeds to teach vocabulary and grammar with pictures and example sentences, rather than with translations. It’s goal really is …

Dinner and Drugs Via Drone in Australia

Stocked up with food and medicine, drones in Australia are delivering necessities right to people’s doors—or yards. Project Wing, (which is part of Alphabet’s X) is getting much needed supplies to remote communities across the country, but it’s not a charity, it’s simply for convenience. Partnering with a pharmacy and a Mexican food chain, Project Wing can get people’s orders to them much faster—connecting those …