Being a tourist can be expensive, inconvenient and embarrassing. Lumped into unwieldy masses and guided like cattle through a city, you're at the mercy of the schedules of others and sometimes ...
Home appliances like washing machines, refrigerators, irons and blenders are concerned, first and foremost, with practicality. But should we expect more? This year's Electrolux Design Lab ...
Payphones appear to be following the Pony Express down the well-worn path of obsolete technologies and their ubiquitous appearance in urban landscapes rings hollow in the face of today's cell phone ...
If you thought biking down stairs was hard, try skating a stairwell - or better yet: don't. At least not without this nifty device, that is. Designed by Po-Chih Lai (movie by Juriaan Booij), ...
It looks like a work of art - a sculpture meant to represent, perhaps, a cloud of smoke being blown from a pipe. But what you're looking at is actually a recreation of the vocal chords of a ...
Don't think technology has an effect on what you wear? It turns out that our outfits, the way we shop for clothes, and even the way we wear our clothes have all been altered by the constant ...
Looming above the surface of the sea like a spaceship, the Water Discus Underwater Hotel is a futuristic wonder that is actually set to be constructed in Dubai. The luxurious resort features a ...
Renovating your kitchen, and left without a place to make basic meals? Living in a tiny urban apartment that just doesn't have room for a standard setup? One of these 13 high-tech, modular, ...
A man takes a seat on a park bench and opens a pair of suitcases, carefully adjusting a few things inside, placing a few small objects in just the right spot. Then an alarm clock sounds, a pencil ...
Three-dimensional printing has made so many advancements in recent years, researchers have been able to print highly detailed models of castles that are as small as a grain of sand. But what ...
