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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A 3-D hologram to promote Nike's new running shoe
To introduce its new running shoe, the Free 5.0, and showcase the model's extreme flexibility, Nike teamed up with…
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A public cloakroom for absent-minded night owls
The Northern Dutch city of Groningen is famous in Holland for its student nightlife and its numerous bars and clubs…
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Colorful bicycles invading the streets of Auckland
As part of the "Designday" organized in Auckland (New Zealand) by Urbis Magazine, a giant outdoor installation composed…
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The rise of the connected car
According to a report by Juniper Research, 20% of all consumer cars in Western Europe and North America will be…
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Living Rembrandt
To celebrate its reopening after a 10 year renovation program and to announce a free entrance day, Amsterdam's…
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Shazam to enable clothes identification on TV
With 250 million claimed users, music identification service Shazam has emerged as one of the most popular mobile…
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Tiny blocks-made animals in the streets
Japanese brand Nanoblocks produces a line of tiny building blocks that appear to be a miniaturized version of Lego. To…
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40 years ago...
By a coincidence of history, April 3rd 1973 was a crucial date for two major technological innovations of the 20th…
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An action movie down the street!
To promote the release of the film "A Good Day to Die Hard", 20th Century Fox teamed up with JCDecaux Norway to create…
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SXSW 2013 review: Back to hardware?
Founded in 1987 and held every spring in Austin, Texas, the "South by Southwest" (SXSW) music, film and interactive…
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German riders' heaven...
The powerful "Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club" (General German Bicycle Club) asked its 130,000 members to vote…
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Guess where you are?
Hungarian development studio Nemesys created an addictive online game based on Google Street View called "Pursued".The…
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A billboard used as a Wi-Fi hotspot
In order to promote its films in a new way and target young urban moviegoers, South Korean distributor CJ Entertainment…
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The most innovative Asian cities are...
Consulting firm Solidiance conducted a study to identify and rank the most innovative cities in the Asia-Pacific region…
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Use your head, wear a helmet!
American bike helmets design company Nutcase recently launched an ambient marketing campaign in the streets of…
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Web traffic from tablets has become more important than from smartphones
According to a survey carried out by Adobe, tablets have surpassed smartphones as a source of traffic for websites. The…
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A terrifying sea creature to promote Vancouver Aquarium
Vancouver Aquarium used street furniture in an unexpected way to promote its latest exhibition "Luminescence",…
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A digital library in the subway...
The "Underground Library" is a new example of the emerging "mobile-reading" phenomenon we already wrote about on…
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Keep Cool!
Willing to illustrate in an entertaining way its slogan "Never lose your cool!", Lipton Ice Tea set up a temperature…
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Microsoft to develop hand gesture recognition for the Kinect
Microsoft just unveiled several details about the next version of Kinect and announced that it will improve the…
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What future for New York's payphones?
In December 2012, the City of New York launched the "Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge" to imagine the future of its…
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Come out and play! Towards the emergence of the "playable" city
The growing use of smartphones, the democratization of mobile Internet and the development of geolocation and augmented…
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iWatch, Google Glass... The battle of connected objects has only just begun
Rumors have intensified lately about the possible launch by Apple of a smart connected watch called the iWatch, even…
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Mirror Mirror...
Japanese clothing company United Arrows recently installed in one of its store windows in Tokyo, half mannequin, half…
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The "magic" billboard that turns air humidity into drinkable water
Whereas Lima's atmospheric humidity reaches 98%, Peru's capital city faces a dramatic lack of precipitations.The…
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A giant snowball fight to take people back to childhood
To celebrate the 40th birthday of its famous "Norwegian Formula" hand cream, American cosmetics brand Neutrogena…
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Amex and Twitter take e-payment one step further
Since March 2012, Amex customers have the possibility to sync their account with Twitter and get special discounts by…
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The explosive growth of mobile data traffic
According to the latest Mobility Report published by telecommunications company Ericsson, global mobile data traffic…
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Creativity and boldness for the Isuda bike share design competition
Singapore's bike-sharing operator Isuda recently launched a design competition in partnership with the Bicycledesign…
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An overview of Tokyo's frenzy...
According to RocketNews24, a press agency specialized in Asian countries, 45 of the 51 busiest train stations in the…
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Any Wikipedia articles nearby?
Wikipedia just added a "GeoData" extension to its mobile application, allowing contributors to attach geographical data…
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Woolly pavements!
To promote the eco-friendly dimension of its Prius Plug-In Hybrid vehicles, Toyota teamed with the London-based "urban…
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2012 was the year of Airbnb
Airbnb, the American social website connecting travelers and hosts around the world, recently published interesting…
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Customize your bike : the latest trends in urban cycling
As urban cycling has gained popularity in the past decade, this traditionally "standardized" object has seen its status…
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China likes records: The world's largest human QR code
2,000 employees, 2,000 umbrellas and a good sense of coordination: that's what it takes to create the largest human QR…
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Google Glass project unfolds a little more
New details were unveiled in the past weeks concerning the Google Glasses. According to the latest information provided…