A gigantic examine of more than 100 municipalities looking back on how efforts to connect urban centers are going–and how citizens themselves am thinking about them. Cities are fast becoming “smart,” and the impact on people’s lives can be immense. Singapore’s smart commerce cameras restrict traffic depending on volume and ease the travel of thousands […]

Just look at the hertzs of invention and obsolescence that drove the rise and fall–and rise–of vinyl or photography, writes Renaud Foucart. The resurgence of vinyl records in a time of digital music and streaming is a story of how innovation can constitute technological comebacks possible. In the summer of 2019, the sales of vinyl […]

The sneaker startup and the boxed water brand Just feels like odd bedfellows, but the companies share aims and information technology. Sneaker symbols are notorious for their unexpected collaborations. Take shoe startup Koio, which recently propel a croissant-inspired sneaker with baker Dominique Ansel that allows you to express your desire of French pastry in cushioned […]

It could be used to create something like an internal internet, connecting organs and material with sensors in a seamless system. Flexible electronics have been a hot topic in research for years, and scientists have compiled real progress in transforming parts of those oversized motherboards in your laptop into impossibly thin, gold leaf wiring that […]

It’s part first-class lounge, part office, and constituent red carpet for the ultra-wealthy customers who will take flight beginning next year. If space-obsessed billionaires get their way, people who can pay a whopping amount of money–about $250,000 — will be hopping on a business projectile for a room flight in the next few years. At […]

It’s not just a garden–it’s a work of art. Growing your own food is one of life’s great pleasures–plus it’s good for you and for the environment. But in increasingly close-fisted, metropolitan dwellings, we don’t all have area for garden-varieties. And hydroponic plans, as plead as they are able, often appear to be a whole […]

The special sauce behind Google’s breakout equipment produces is its one-year-old Design Lab. We’re the first publication to go inside. There’s a building on Google’s Mountain View, California, campus that’s off-limits to most of the company’s own employees. The 70,000 -square-foot Design Lab residences around 150 decorators and dozens of top-secret projects under the leadership […]

The fashion industry is far from sustainable, but a revolutionary brand-new scaffold called CircularID aims to make it easier for labels to recycle, reparation, and resell style commodities. Natasha Franck, cofounder and CEO of manner engineering busines EON, believes we will one day be able to throw our age-old shirts in the recycling bucket along […]

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A new prototype airplane aspects a screen instead of a front-facing window in its cockpit. The engineering is closer to the mainstream than it voices. Airplane design has basically remained unchanged for decades. The vast majority of planes are variants on the same basic motif: A cigar-shaped body with a cockpit where aviators can see […]