The Microbial Home Probe invented by Phillips consists of a domestic ecosystem that challenges conventional design solutions to energy, cleaning, food preservation, lighting, human waste and healthy lifestyle – Our world is sending us warning signals that we are disturbing its equilibrium. A drastic cut in our environmental impact is Read the full story

Every year, those passionate about architectural innovation participate in the Evolvo competition -  With a jury composed by leaders of the architecture and design fields, they gathered to pick the winners for outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution.

Among the honorable mentions there are “waterscrapers” that clean oil spills and desalinate sea water, inverted skyscrapers for Read the full story

Very high-fashion and futuristic, the ‘World to Come‘ 2011 calendar by Indian photographer Jatin Kampani is pretty awesome. Imagining a close future, ‘a dream within a dream, a world within a world’ – ‘The World to Come‘ spells tomorrow like no other. This ‘Art meets Architecture’ project treads the line between Read the full story

Improved reality is part of our near future, and if you can replace ugly billboards with Art, well the world should be a more happy place then! The Artvertiser is a software platform for replacing billboard advertisements with art in real-time. It works by teaching computers to ‘recognize’ individual advertisements so they can be easily replaced with alternative content, like images and video. see video below
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Smart, responsive and elegant, the Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility. It transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid e-bikes that also function as mobile sensing units. The Copenhagen Wheel allows you to capture the energy dissipated while cycling and braking and save it for when you need  a bit of a boost. It also gives you maps pollution levels, traffic congestion, and road conditions in real-time..

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We’ve been telling you for a while now that Augmented Reality (or AR) will be everywhere in the next couple of years (maybe months now!). So its already starting with one of the most ‘Avant-Garde’ mag of the Print Industry (technology wise): Esquire Magazine, they already created there E-ink cover few months ago, now they launch their first Augmented Reality issue of Esquire- See video below to blow your mind !

The Fashion story that you can control gives you just a glimpse of the possibilities that Augmented Reality is able to do !

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