New paths for the roads of tomorrow
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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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Microsoft makes shopping more entertaining
To promote the launch of its new Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft installed a giant slide in the Bluewater…
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Hppy bday SMS :)
Twenty years ago, a text message was sent for the very first time via Short Message Service (SMS) by British engineer…
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Sewer holes transformed into radio speakers
The Zurich International Radio Festival found an original way to welcome the Australian radio Kiss FM in Switzerland.In…
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Europe remains the best place to live
With 15 of the top 25 slots, European cities still dominate Mercer’s “Quality of living” annual ranking.Vienna ranks…
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Lack of sunlight ? Just wait for the bus!
In Umeå, a city located close to the Arctic Circle in the north of Sweden, days last less than five hours during the…
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A particularly sensitive interface...
American company Qeexo developed a technology called Finger Sense allowing new user experiences on touch screens…
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The mobile apps market dominated by a few operators
According to a survey carried out by Canalys during the first 20 days of November, half of the revenue generated in the…
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When technology revives the magic of Christmas
For Christmas Cartier set up a special interactive display in its 5th Avenue storefront in New York City.This…
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Creating an interface on any object with an augmented light bulb
A student from the MIT Media Lab developed the prototype of a light bulb able to convert any kind of surface into a…
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Finding music in the clouds… literally
In 2010 Air France launched an onboard music service allowing passengers to create their own playlists from a catalogue…
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Android widens the gap with iOS
75% of the mobile phones shipped in the world during the third quarter 2012 were Android devices, according to IDC’s…
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The extraordinary growth of Chinese cities
The United Nations’ Habitat Programme recently published the latest edition of its “State of the World’s Cities”.This…
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Travelers appear to be confident mobile consumers
A survey carried out by comScore for Expedia Media Solutions shows the growing use of mobile phones by travelers for…
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The end of phone battery failure
The charge cycle project proposes both a funny and healthy way to charge your smartphone in the street.This project…
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Airbnb strengthens its hyperlocal expertise
Airbnb, the American social website connecting travelers and hosts around the world, has just launched a new service…
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A new way to control your smartphone
A new technology called GestIC and developed by American company Microchip will allow users to control their smartphone…
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Controlling the streetlights with an iPad
London’s Westminster district plans to renew its lighting system in the next four years by replacing 14,000…
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An UFO flying over London
To celebrate the release of the new Halo 4 video game on its Xbox 360 console, Microsoft organized a special operation…
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BMW opens a “Window into the near future”
To launch the BMW “i Born Electric Tour”, the German brand set up, on New York’s Sixth Avenue, a giant screen allowing…
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A building façade turned into a playing field
To promote the “I love techno” Festival organized in Ghent, Belgium, one of the building façades of the city was used…
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Re-imagining the “Before and After” effect
In order to demonstrate the hydrating effects of its new skin care line, cosmetic products company Burt’s Bees imagined…
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Store windows, laboratories for the future of retail
As a physical interface between customers and sellers, store windows can be more than just a space to display items…
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An interactive billboard made of plastic tubes
In order to illustrate its promise to revive clothes’ colors, laundry detergent brand Woolite set up an interactive low…
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32 bikes in a single car parking place
To solve the problems caused by the lack of parking spaces for bicycles in very dense cities, Korean industrial…
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Bike sharing is spreading out worldwide
Bike sharing systems provide more than 236,000 bicycles around the world, according to Berkeley University’s…
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A crowdsourced map of Berlin to simplify cyclists’ rides
The BMW Guggenheim Lab team has developed an interactive map of Berlin providing information about the city’s biking…
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M-commerce in search of a model
The latest researches on m-commerce underline the growing development of this sector, as evidenced by the strategic…
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The SoLoMo trend becomes clearer
According to Gartner analysts’ predictions on the Social Local Mobile (SoLoMo) trend, 1 billion people will only use…
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When m-commerce meets augmented reality
Chinese e-commerce company Yihaodian has just launched a large-scale m-commerce experiment based on augmented reality…
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Controlling a computer with your eyes
Japanese high-tech company Fujitsu has developed a prototype computer with an eye-tracking technology enabling hands…
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Turning people into Comics characters
New York based artist Nova Jiang has created an interactive digital installation called the “Ideogenetic Machine”, that…
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Lunch can be fun too!
Based on the observation that Brits spend less and less time for their lunch breaks, New York Bakery Co set up in…
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A giant outdoor installation to celebrate the aesthetics of movement
To celebrate the release of the new Air Jordan CP3.VI sneakers, Nike organized a giant outdoor art installation in…
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Experiencing teleportation from Lyon to Brussels…
To promote its new high-speed line linking Lyon to Brussels, French national railway company SNCF has imagined a device…
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The use of QR codes is growing
According to a survey led by ComScore in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, smartphone users…
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Parisians have already adopted the Autolib’
Parisian electric car sharing service Autolib’ could be profitable by 2014, four years ahead of the initial plan of the…