New paths for the roads of tomorrow
Transportation news feeds are filled with tech innovations and new start-ups willing to improve our daily mobility…
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Swimming is back in town (it’s still summer!)
Among other natural elements, water surely is one of the most appreciated in cities – or even a symbol, as the famous …
How cities deal with the climate change risks
According to the non-profit organization “100 Resilient Cities”, urban resilience is the ability of individuals,…
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Spring starts when the bikes start to melt…
How to celebrate both the end of a difficult winter and the beginning of warmer days?Take an ice cube that will melt,…
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"Make With a Red Stripe”: how to promote beer? An everyday challenge
Jamaïcan beer brand Red Stripe set up an art project called “Make with a Red Stripe”.This is a new ambient project…
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Flashmobs are still useful : Tic Tac knows it
Tic Tac wanted to create an outdoor campaign that conveys a very simple but universal message: bad breath is annoying…
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Eye-tracking devices will read your thoughts
In the movie Minority Report, all that deals with eye-tracking, personal data and privacy seem only science fiction…
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TweetVox: Sound & city are definitely a trendy topic
We already talked about « Clameurs », a mobile application that lets people record messages linked to their geographic…
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The city for canvas: the many faces of Street Art
Paradoxically enough, and despite some negative assumptions, urban areas have become more and more human. Companies are…
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Who exactly are the digital natives? PC lovers for sure
The “Digital Natives”, other qualification of youngsters born between 1985 and 1995, are a perfect target for IT…
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The rise of the Tablets : 2012 edition
Worldwide tablets sales are going to increase from 60 to 119 million in 2012 according to Gartner.Apple and its iPad…
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Digital personalities: which one is yours?
New IBM study Beyond Digital, released during the 2012 NAB conference, shows the emergence of four distinct “digital…
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What would You do for a free laptop?
Thinking that winning a notebook could be something people highly crave for, Intel set up a number of installations…
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Say Cheese !
How could the brand Oral B possibly promote its electric toothbrush and demonstrate that even if your teeth seem…
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Financial interactive wall
Infographics available to everyone? Maybe that is the bet of world-famous newspaper, The Financial Times.In their…
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Angry birds in space : from theory to practice
How to make advertising really spectacular when you are T-Mobile, one of the biggest phone operators in the USA?Well,…
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Just sit, relax, and take a rest
Improving the daily life of city-dwellers is an everyday challenge. Imagined by Formula-D, Ibali is an urban furniture…
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Mobilytrip, how to improve your holiday storytelling
MobilyTrip is an Android and iPhone application that helps people describe, organize and comment their holiday trips.It…
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Cayin & Fushing Private school : when technologies reach students
Located in Tapiei city, Fushing is one of the best private schools in Taiwan. It has developed a new medium, with help…
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This may change from paper : Digital Canvas for artists in Boston
Initiatives that help artists show their work to the public are always appreciated, even for the tiniest exhibition.The…
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SXSW 2012 Review
“SXSW”. This is how people call the “South by Southwest Music and Conference festival”, which takes place every year in…
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Apple & Samsung : 2011 Mobile Industry stars
According to Canaccord Genuity analysis, Apple and Samsung together represented more than 95% of the mobile Industry…
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Will the 21th century really be the end of PCs ?
The eternal couple Windows + PC might not last forever. This is what an IDC study explains.According to the data, the…
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Governments want to help Big Data projects
“Big Data” is a general term used to describe the voluminous amount of unstructured and semi-structured data a company…
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Tomorrow’s desktop might offer 3D display and interaction through a virtual interface
Microsoft Research‘s Applied Sciences Group (ASG) are exploring new opportunities to provide more genuine interactions…
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“Google Heads-Up Display Glasses” are expected for the end of the year
To maintain its reputation for innovation and break-through technologies, Google, through its Google X labs, should be…
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Mercedes-Benz ”launches” a stunning invisible car in Germany
Mercedes-Benz draws attention on its innovative F-Cell car, a hybrid model boasting zero gas emissions.Unlike what has…
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Panasonic creates an ephemeral organic garden in Paris - La Défense
To support the launch of innovative fridge-freezers prolonging freshness of fruits and vegetables and reducing vitamin…
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Axa Bank brings hope to a weeping house in Belgium
To make prospects and clients pay attention to its loaning services, Axa launched a playful and charismatic animated…
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LG engages with male expats in Dubaï with a giant capacity washing machine
Traditionally associated to women, a recent survey has unveiled that in Dubaï, washing machines are increasingly likely…
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A new bike concept to carry laptops and documents safely and elegantly
To adapt to new forms of commuting such as urban biking, this new concept-bicycle enables its users to carry briefcases…
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Better than reading barcodes, the latest scanner can directly recognize objects
Toshiba has just developed a new tool to facilitate cash supermarket sequences, called the new revolutionary Object…
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Sound: a new approach to experience the city
Sound is an essential component of the dynamics of urban areas. In other words; sound means movement and movement means…
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Mobile subscriptions keep on rising and total around 6 billion worldwide
According to Ericsson’s latest survey, global mobile subscriptions now reach 6 billion for 4.1 billion subscribers in…
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Pinterest, a new social website, appeals to more than 13 million people in the world
Despite being invitation-only, the website launched in early 2010 has been growing at an amazing rate. Pinterest is an…
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French people spend over 3h per month to surf the Internet on their mobile
According to Mediametrie’s latest survey in France, Internet users are rising by 6% compared to 2010, representing 40…
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Cittying, when outdoor sitting furniture becomes nomad to cater to citizens’ needs
In an even more nomad society, sitting in the city –“cittying”- is gaining an increasingly significant role. When on…
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Intel launches its new outdoor communication with a pop-up-theatre in Los Angeles
To launch its new ultrabook and invite people to “Transform every day”, Intel hired 60 people and equipped them with an…
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A money vending machine in Brazil
To spread the word about its website and illustrate the discount rate of its products, Brazilian group buying site…