How Smart Home Technology Could Change Architecture
Whether you're an early adopter or believe smart technology could invite a host of new headaches into our most private spaces, connectivity and automation are coming for us all. We’re still in ...
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Shape-Shifting Chinese Smart Home Uses Open-Source Building Technology
Set in a traditional Beijing hutong, this cozy futuristic house has a shape-changing layout and employs construction techniques available for download on WikiHouse, an open-source architecture ...
New IKEA Smart Home Fixtures Compatible with Google, Apple & Amazon
Furniture giant IKEA is making its new low-cost smart home fixtures voice-controllable can connect with ease to systems including Google Home, Apple HomeKit and Amazon Alexa. The company ...
IKEA 2025: Futuristic Modular Kitchen Caters to Food Drones
Reflecting a world of increasing everyday automation but decreasing natural resources, these kitchen concepts include flexible storage for on-demand food and high-tech responsive surfaces as ...
Glow-in-the-Dark Highways: Free Lighting Hits the Streets
Proposed just two years ago, this alternative solar-powered passive streetlight system is now already a reality, deployed along motorways across the Netherlands. As one reporter put it after ...
Smart Glass: Flip a Switch to Make Opaque Turn Transparent
Kiss curtains, blinds and shades goodbye - smart glass is not just an Xbox enhancement. Smart glass technology is evolving and faster than ever. It can shade rooms on demand, making them ...
Future Skyscraper: Arup Presents Awesome Vision for 2050
Rather than turning toward far-flung science-fiction, these designers have extrapolated current engineering techniques and evolving technologies. This skyscraper thus fuses passive power ...
Nailed It: 12 Extremely Effective Guerrilla Marketing Stunts
Ad-agencies are finding it more and more difficult today to get through to the average consumer, and marketing saturation only grows with every year. It's for that reason that guerrilla ...
