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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…

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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Taking a rest at the red light

"Curbee" is a street-furniture allowing riders to take a rest while waiting at a red light.It consists in a simple…

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A giant scoreboard made of cars' LED headlights

Audi found an original and impacting way to display World Cup scores in real time.It set-up on the Brooklyn waterfront…

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Restoring damaged signs with Scrabble letters

American toys and games manufacturing company Mattel partnered with Spanish agency Lola to launch, in Madrid, a…

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Smart solar-powered benches for Boston parks

The City of Boston is about to set-up connected benches in several of its parks, allowing citizens to charge their…

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A vending machine turned into a tiny football field

Here is another campaign testing people's football skills, after the one organized by Pepsi a few weeks ago. To…

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The LEGO bus shelter

As part of the "Year of the Bus" organized in London, a bus shelter entirely made of LEGO bricks was set-up along…

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Is it worth climbing?

Transport for London (TfL) is currently testing in its famous double-decker buses a system aiming at informing…

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Smart devices and connected objects under the spotlight at Futur en Seine 2014

Founded in 2009 by Cap Digital and held every June in Paris, Futur en Seine is a festival aiming at promoting digital…

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Activity trackers dominate the wearable devices market

According to a report published by ABI Research, the global wearable devices market is clearly dominated by activity…

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The most walkable cities in the US are...

In partnership with Smart Growth America and the Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis at George Washington…

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Using a Kit Kat as a train ticket

As part of campaign aiming at reviving tourism in the region that was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami,…

Urban Radar

Design your own bus network!

TransitMix is a tool created by a group of developers from the Code for America organization that lets people design…

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Amazon enters the Smartphone market

Amazon just unveiled the "Fire Phone", a smartphone equipped with a "dynamic perspective" technology able to display 3D…

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Samsung unveils its smart bike

As part of its Maestros Academy, Samsung unveiled at the Milan Design Week the prototype of a smart connected bike…

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Hijacking Banksy

This might be considered as a sacrilege by street-art fanatics... German agency Grey was commissioned by online shoe…

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Queuing up for a free snack

Following the "How far would you go..." trend, Australian snacks brand Fantastic Delites partnered with Clemenger BBDO…

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This ad only appears when it rains

To promote the Philippines as a touristic destination, Cebu Pacific airline company partnered with Ogilvy & Mathers…

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An international standard to measure city services and quality of life

Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) issued a new standard to measure the performance of…

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Wake me up!

Google Now, the intelligent personal assistant developed by Google, offers a new feature for mobile devices able to…

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Enhancing urban heritage with technology

The growing use of Smartphones and the emergence of new technologies such as augmented reality have given birth to new…

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Tokyo offers the best traveler experience, according to Tripadvisor users

Travel website Tripadvisor announced the results of its second Annual Cities Survey, revealing how its users rate…

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Smart transportation market to reach $104.19 billion by 2019

Global smart transportation market is expected to grow at an annual rate of 18.3% from $45.05 billion in 2014 to $104…

Urban Radar

Using the Oculus Rift for urban planning

As part of the "Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon" organized in May by TechCrunch, software programmer Angel Say created Vrban,…

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An interactive vending machine rewarding talented football players

As the 2014 football World Cup is about to begin in Brazil, Pepsi UK created an interactive vending machine inviting…

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Making donations easy and concrete

The "Social Swipe" is an interactive poster set-up by German agency Kolle-Rebe at Hamburg International Airport,…

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Worldwide Wi-Fi deployments to exceed 10 million hotspots by 2018

According to a report published by ABI Research, worldwide Wi-Fi deployments reached 4.2 million hotspots in 2013 and…

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A bold design for an Austrian village's bus shelters

Willing to develop its awareness and attract more tourists, the Eastern Austrian village of Krumbach (around 1,000…

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An app to bring NYC subway maps to life

As part of a graduate thesis at New York University, interactive telecommunications student Bill Lindmeier created …

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Cisco unveils its connected billboard

To promote its position as one of the world's leaders in the "Internet of Everything" (IoE), Cisco set-up, on a highway…

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The smart bike lock

Skylock is the prototype of a connected bike u-lock created by San Francisco-based start-up Velo Labs. It can be…

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An outdoor raffle to win free airline tickets

To promote the launch of its special fares, Air France teamed-up with Verywell agency to organize an outdoor game…

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Making cities accessible to the visually-impaired

As part of the efforts to enhance cities' accessibility, recent technologies allow significant improvements to let the…

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Where are the smart cities in Europe?

The European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy recently published a report aiming at mapping smart…

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A giant hotspots network in New York

Last year, we mentioned the “Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge” organized by the City of New York to imagine the…

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The responsive facade

As part of a competition to remodel the Seoul headquarters building of Korean conglomerate Hanwa, UNStudio unveiled the…

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Towards a "smart" subway network in London

Transport for London (TfL) partnered with telecoms firm Telent and IT company CGI to set-up a giant network of sensors…