Tag: Tech
AI-Vertical Farms: New Solutions for Food Insecurity and Land Scarcity
Plenty is an agricultural-tech startup that has specialised in vertical farms controlled by robots and monitored by artificial intelligence that could change the way we…
Sony’s Sci-Fi Prototyped Floating Habitats Propose New Futures for Living
Sony has recently launched an exhibition titled “One Day, 2050, Sci-fi Prototyping” which aims to propose new possible futures for technology. …
HiBeds: The Future of Sleeping
Technological innovations are often presented as original items able to improve people’s daily lives, additions to the piles of devices that inhabit homes. An opposing…
Igniting The City: Evercurb’s Plans Towards Awakening Urban Spaces
Energy demand is constantly increasing. Almost every new item advertised on the market requires energy to function. Phones, AirPods, cars, scooters, ebooks, computers, the list…
HERMITS: A Disassembled Robot
The design world has always taken inspiration from our surroundings: animal behaviours, nature, and people. Robotics design engineering has often tried to emulate humans’ and…
From Data Scarcity to Data Abundance: AI as an Agent of Culture with Matias del Campo
In the rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence in design, the architectural practice SPAN, co-founded by Dr. Sandra Manninger and Dr. Matias del Campo, investigates…
A new documentary brings the user-experience to the forefront of discourse surrounding society’s trust in new technologies
“Every time a new technology is announced, one question arises: can we trust it?” This is the question Archis and Subarmine Channel ask the general…
Is the secret to a good night’s sleep in a multi-sensory experience driven by VR and data visualization?
A research study from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s (RMIT) Exertion Games Lab titled “Towards Understanding the Design of Positive Pre-sleep Through a Neurofeedback…