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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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…
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An Asian floating market in London
To introduce its new collection, Ikea transformed London’s Regent’s Canal into a traditional Asian floating market,…
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Walking on a QR code made of stone
In order to provide tourist information combining modernity and tradition, Turismo de Portugal has placed in a square…
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Booking a restaurant directly on Foursquare
An update of check-in service Foursquare enables users to make restaurant reservations directly with the mobile…
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Finding the closest cab with smart taxi ranks
Smart taxi ranks could be a way to solve the problems caused by the lack of cabs in Paris.A project was recently…
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Connected car under the spotlights at Paris Motor Show
Special attention has been paid to innovation during the last Paris Motor Show, in particular in the field of connected…
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A bold design for bicycle docking stations
Bicycle parking can stimulate the creativity of designers, as evidenced by the works of Swiss architect Rafael Schmidt…
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Google Play hits 25 billion downloads
Google has announced that its online store Google Play has hit 25 billion downloads, four years after its launch…
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Samsung experiments its new gesture control system in Madrid’s streets
Following the launch of the world famous video game Angry Birds on Samsung Smart TV, the Korean brand has transformed…
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Audi takes businessmen back to childhood
Audi has set up in Toronto’s financial district an outdoor installation composed of a slot car track and scaled-down…
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Enhancing accessibility: cities for mobility
While the number of city dwellers keeps rising, so does the diversity of this urban population. Considering demographic…
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“Consumerization” and Hyper-connectivity will make a big impact in 2012
Gartner’s annual report on the Hype Cycle presents an overview of 1,900 technologies and trends in information security…
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Phone booths are the ultimate canvas for unbridled creativity
Part of an integration process in Brazil, Spanish group Telefonica has decided to rebrand all its Brazilian products…