If you’re walking or driving in San Jose, California, later this year and have the sense that a late model Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan just made eye contact with rooftop lighted sensors and a quick flash of a signature LED lamp, you could be right. The car could be one of several in a pilot program that will be testing, among […]
Car To Pedestrian Signal
Automatic Sliding Doors For Pets
Smart home devices are getting crazy these days. It’s not just video doorbells and IoT security cameras anymore. Now that all the low-hanging fruit has been plucked, we’re moving beyond the era of smart plugs, smoke detectors, appliances, and other staples of the home. Nowadays, designers are dreaming up smart home gear and gadgetry that never existed in analog form. […]
Headset For Enhanced Memory & Learning
HUMM, a San Francisco-based tech company, has developed the Edge headset, a wearable electrical stimulation device that the company claims can boost learning and memory. The device consists of a headband that delivers electrical stimulation to the brain, and using it for just 15 minutes is reported to provide certain cognitive enhancements for at least one hour. In an increasingly […]
Share Your Rail Rides
Have a passion for travel and a knack for telling stories? The new #AmtrakTakeMeThere social media residency program aims to highlight travel experiences from different travelers on Amtrak social media. Amtrak calls the program “an open casting call” to find travelers to share stories from aboard long-distance Amtrak trips. The program, Amtrak says, isn’t looking for professional social media influencers […]
Pedaltrain’s Tiny Tuner
Since its humble one man startup beginnings in 1999, Pedaltrain has mushroomed into a global brand that has everything guitarists need to create a travel home for their effects pedals. But once you’ve attached your power brick, distortion and modulation stomps with Velcro, you may find that there’s little or no space for a board tuner. Now there’s a chromatic […]
Why You Have To Consider Hiring a Lawyer For Your Business
Business ventures are challenging and risky enough by themselves. But having to go through it without legal aid or legal counsel? Even riskier! A business needs a lawyer like a plant needs the sunshine. Having a lawyer for your business ensures that you and your legal rights are sufficiently protected and safeguarded. Having a lawyer also prevents you from breaching […]
“Stacked Homes”
Apartments are made up of rooms stacked on top of one another in this extreme vertical housing proposal by Chicago studio Kwong von Glinow, which is the latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series. Titled Tower within a Tower, the scheme tries to solve an issue that is typical in traditional “pancake stacks” of apartments – the lack of […]
Origami Canoes
Here’s an excerpt from our full article, which ran earlier in the week: “A few years back,Oru Kayak became the darling of the crowdfunding scene when it introduced a lightweight, collapsible boat that could be stored in a closet and easily transported to and from the water. The company’s innovative design was heavily influenced by the Japanese art of origami, […]
Beyond Oil In Dubai
On the outskirts of Dubai, a shimmering metropolis built on buried oil, lies a small but similarly suave community looking at a new way of doing things. It is no small irony that the world’s most brazen exemplar of fossil-fueled excess is also home to a cutting-edge example of more thoughtful modern living. But the carefully planned Dubai Sustainable City […]
External Airbags For Cars
The external airbags from ZF reduce the severity of impacts for both cars involved in an accident. Currently only available for the side of a car, the ZF airbag relies on the same technology used in traditional airbags, but on a much larger scale—up to three times larger and inflated with multiple inflators. The system features an array of sensors […]