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MIT’s Color-Changing Ink Lets You Jazz Up Your Art, Clothes, Car Every Day

MIT’s Color-Changing Ink Lets You Jazz Up Your Art, Clothes, Car Every Day

Design Innovation

If you’ve ever purchased two articles of the same clothing because you couldn’t decide on a color, here’s a game-changer: color-changing ink. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a “reprogrammable ink” that lets you change the color of objects whenever you wish by exposing them to light of various wavelengths.

Elon Musk's Battery Farm Is An Undeniable Success

Elon Musk's Battery Farm Is An Undeniable Success

Innovation Tech

More than two years after winning an electricity bet, Elon Musk’s resulting Australian solar and wind farm is an almost total success. The facility powers rural South Australia, whose population density falls between Wyoming and Alaska, the two least dense U.S. states.

The Display Of The Future Might Be In Your Contact Lens

The Display Of The Future Might Be In Your Contact Lens

Innovation Tech

As my eyes flitted around the room, I moved through a virtual interface only visible to me—scrolling through a calendar, looking up commute times home, and even controlling music playback. It’s all I theoretically need to do to use Mojo Lens, a smart contact lens coming from a company called Mojo Vision.

How Technology Is Shaping The World Of Footwear

How Technology Is Shaping The World Of Footwear

Business Innovation Tech

Over the past decade, one of the best examples of where tech has flourished is the footwear industry. From self-lacing tech to cushioning systems made from tiny foam particles, brands like Nike, Adidas and others have gone all out trying to change what footwear design means.

Inside Kanye West’s Vision For The Future

Inside Kanye West’s Vision For The Future

Innovation Long Reads

First he changed the sound of popular music. Then he revolutionized fashion and sneakers. Now, Kanye West is redesigning the very building blocks of family life—food, clothing, and shelter—and he’s claimed thousands of acres in Wyoming as a test site for his ideas.

Matt Rota

Inspiration
Matt Rota
How A Small Texas City Rewrote The Rules Of Development

How A Small Texas City Rewrote The Rules Of Development

Architecture Cities Innovation

Last month, Bastrop, Texas, adopted a new building code, known as Bastrop Building Block, which radically alters how the city will approach development. The new flexible system was designed to address three interrelated issues hitting municipalities across the county: population growth, aging infrastructure, and outdated development patterns.

Water-Resistant And Biodegradable Plant-Based Plastic

Water-Resistant And Biodegradable Plant-Based Plastic

Innovation Science

A group of researchers at Japan’s Osaka University has developed an alternative type of plastic which is not only biodegradable in seawater but is also water-resistant under normal use. The plastic is made from cellulose nanofibers and starch, both of which were extracted from plants.

Floating Island System Imagines A Future For The People Of Kiribati

Floating Island System Imagines A Future For The People Of Kiribati

Architecture Innovation

Kiribati is in danger of being lost to rising sea levels. In response to this, YAC launched the ‘Kiribati floating houses’ competition to architects and designers across the globe. Marcin Kitala’s winning project comprises a system of pentagonal-shaped platforms, which can be easily connected or disconnected.

MI.MU Gloves: Music Through Movement

MI.MU Gloves: Music Through Movement

Innovation Tech Videos

MI·MU Gloves are the world’s most advanced wearable musical instrument, for expressive creation, composition and performance. Express yourself through gestures using wearable music technology, connect movement to sound in your own way and discover new forms of expression.

Big Tech Takes Aim At The Low-Profit Retail-Banking Industry

Big Tech Takes Aim At The Low-Profit Retail-Banking Industry

Business Economics Innovation Tech

After years of timidity Big Tech, with its billions of users and gigantic war chest, at last appears serious about crashing the fintech party. Amazon and Apple introduced a credit card. Facebook announced a new payments system and Google said it would start offering current (checking) accounts in America.

The “New” Trend Of 8D Audio Explained; What Is It And How Is It Achieved?

The “New” Trend Of 8D Audio Explained; What Is It And How Is It Achieved?

Explainers Innovation Tech

The reality is that there’s no new technology but a technique that allows hearing sounds as if you were in the middle of it. That feeling of music that runs through your head, thanks to the use of headphones, is the result of equalization techniques, panning and effects combined together.

3D Printed Housing For Those Who Need It Most

3D Printed Housing For Those Who Need It Most

Architecture Design Innovation Videos

New Story, ICON, and Échale have completed the first two printed homes in the world’s first 3D printed community in Mexico. The 3D printed homes feature two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and bath. Co-designed with feedback from the families who will live in them, the homes have been created to meet the specific needs of the community.

'The Countryside Is Where The Radical Changes Are': Rem Koolhaas Goes Rural

'The Countryside Is Where The Radical Changes Are': Rem Koolhaas Goes Rural

Architecture Business Innovation

“There has been no architecture of a similar vigour in the last 100 years. It is based strictly on codes, algorithms, technologies, engineering and performance, not intention. Its boredom is hypnotic, its banality breathtaking.” For Koolhaas, the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center embodies a new kind of sublime.

The Ingenious System Bringing Water To The Chinese Desert

The Ingenious System Bringing Water To The Chinese Desert

Innovation Nature Videos

The Karez is a modern-day engineering marvel and a prime example of a native people working with, not against, the forces of nature to deliver their needs – in this case, water. Today, this system nourishes an area called Grape Valley, once an oasis for weary travelers along the Silk Road.

Joseph Ford

Inspiration
Joseph Ford
Ripples Of Time Sand Clock By Studio Ayaskan

Ripples Of Time Sand Clock By Studio Ayaskan

Art Design Innovation Videos

The Ripples of Time Sand Clock allows natural materials to be shaped by time, reminding us of its presence. The installation consists of two complementary clocks; Sand and Water. Sand, inspired by Zen Gardens, is the gradual formation and flattening of a ripple pattern over a period of twelve-hour cycles.

What If We Automated Construction?

What If We Automated Construction?

Architecture Innovation Videos

The rise of technology is a huge opportunity for the construction industry; enabling it to overcome many of its challenges while broadening its appeal to young talent. From predictive design to 3D printing and even autonomous machines on site, this is what the future could look like if we automated construction.

Airbus Beluga XL Enters Service

Airbus Beluga XL Enters Service

Business Innovation

One of the aviation world’s most hotly anticipated planes, the Airbus Beluga XL, has entered full-time service. The super-transporter cargo plane is designed by Airbus to fly its aircraft components between production sites in Europe and its final assembly lines in Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; and Tianjin, China.

Solar-Powered Prefab Home Comes Move-In Ready

Solar-Powered Prefab Home Comes Move-In Ready

Innovation

Haus.me is a turducken of housing buzzwords: The 3D-printed prefab house integrates smart home technology and can also go off-grid. The company has been making and testing homes that generate their own energy since 2016. Now, the company is ready to start shipping the homes to customers.

Hard Truths: Will Museums’ Digital Plans Make Curators Obsolete?

Hard Truths: Will Museums’ Digital Plans Make Curators Obsolete?

Art Innovation Tech

As art institutions continue to raise ticket prices and roll out blockbusters, we may come to see shows that will be curated entirely by optimized algorithms. What happens when a museum becomes curator-less? Will this be the end of art history as we’ve known it, or the dawn of a techno renaissance?

Bashir Sultani

Inspiration
Bashir Sultani
Could Air-Conditioning Fix Climate Change?

Could Air-Conditioning Fix Climate Change?

Innovation Nature Science

Air conditioning systems can replace the entire air volume in an office building five or 10 times an hour.  Machines that capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—a developing fix for climate change—also depend on moving large volumes of air.  So why not save energy by tacking the carbon capture machine onto the air conditioner?

Russian Cows Fitted With Virtual-Reality Headsets

Russian Cows Fitted With Virtual-Reality Headsets

Innovation Nature Tech

The grass is greener in a virtual world. That’s what Moscow region farmers were aiming for when they fitted their dairy cows with virtual-reality headsets to test their milk production. “Experts noted reduced anxiety and improved overall emotional mood in the herd” during the VR experiment, said the regional agriculture administration.

3D Printing Ink May Solve The “Toothpaste Problem”

3D Printing Ink May Solve The “Toothpaste Problem”

Innovation Science

A new kind of ink for 3D printing liquifies when pressed through the nozzle of a 3D printer, but then quickly returns to its original shape, researchers report. The invention paves the way for personalized biomaterial implants, according to new research. As things stand, however, personalized implants remain a long way off.

The Small Virginia Town Where Drone Deliveries Have Begun For Real

The Small Virginia Town Where Drone Deliveries Have Begun For Real

Business Innovation Tech

Wing, a subsidiary of Google, chose Christiansburg (population 22,500) as its first launching site for American commercial drone delivery operations — it’s also testing in Australia and Finland — not only because of the relatively flat terrain and low population density, but because of nearby Virginia Tech University.

Air Co’s Vodka Is Made Out Of Carbon Dioxide Pulled From The Atmosphere

Air Co’s Vodka Is Made Out Of Carbon Dioxide Pulled From The Atmosphere

Food Innovation Nature

To bring the spirit in-line with its contemporaries, Air Co. has applied a process that converts air-based carbons into pure ethanol using a proprietary, solar-based electrical procedure. The result? An 80-proof vodka that looks, tastes, and feels like the traditional spirit, but with a reduced environmental impact due to its specialized “distillation” process.

The Future Of Energy Storage Beyond Lithium-Ion

The Future Of Energy Storage Beyond Lithium-Ion

Innovation Tech Videos

Over the past decade, prices for solar panels and wind farms have reached all-time lows. However, the price for lithium-ion batteries, the leading energy storage technology, has remained too high. So researchers are exploring other alternatives, including flow batteries, thermal batteries, and gravity-based systems.

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