3D Printing - Bringing the World’s Greatest Art to Blind People

New York-based company 3Dphotoworks is aiming to make the 2D world of art accessible to blind people using a 3D printing process that turns paintings, drawings and photographs into 3D printed tactile fine art. Developed in collaboration with the Nat…

Alberta’s oil-sands plants - Environmentally it’s a disaster zone

No long-term future in tar sands, says Alberta's premier - Rachel Notley supports a switch to clean energy to help Canada’s biggest oil-producing province move beyond fossil fuels within a century. Alberta being the epicenter of Canada's declining r…

The ‘biggest climate story on the planet’ is happening in Indonesia right now

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, known as “Jokowi,” came to Washington Monday to help elevate his country’s profile and appeal to foreign investors. But as raging forest and peatland fires in Indonesia pour huge amounts of carbon into the atmospher…

Connected 2030 - Das Gehirn und die Cloud

Ray Kurzweil ist Futurist und Erfinder. Er hat eine ganz außergewöhnliche Theorie wie für uns das Jahr 2030 aussehen wird. Er sagt voraus, dass wir Menschen mit Nanobots im Gehirn in der Lage sein werden Emails, Fotos, Erinnerungen und Gedanken in e…

6 NSFW Reasons Why Robots Are The Future Of Sex

 If you think you can't live without your devices now, just wait. Technology is already paving the way for a future filled with robot-derived pleasure. In her recent blog for The Huffington Post, Dr. Helen Driscoll, a senior psychology lecturer and …

Aliens - be found by 2025?

Sci-fi or science? Head of NASA says proof of alien life just years away, top NASA administrator adds it will be found in our solar system. NASA Chief Scientist claims Aliens will be found in ten years.

A robot anyone can build - The Lego of the Future?

A robotics and coding kit for kids of all ages. Modular, colorful and LEGO® compatible. Build, code, play, create the future! Meet Robo Wunderkind, the Lego of the future. This startup is building programmable Lego-like bricks that teach kids how al…

Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

Forget moving like Jagger. The key to unlocking your inner genius is to think like da Vinci. Easy, right? Here are seven principles to help.

Leonardo da Vinci was arguably the greatest thinker of all times—genius demonstrated on so many levels, with…

Sie erforschen die Armenviertel der Welt und finden dort kreative Kräfte

Zwei unkonventionelle ETH-Professoren. Sie erforschen die Armenviertel der Welt und finden dort kreative Kräfte. Alfredo Brillembourg und Hubert Klumpner sind keine klassischen Architekten.

 

Design of a floating city for humans and marine animals

Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: WORKac has teamed up with the founders of 1970s art collective Ant Farm to design a floating city based on drawings that were lost during a fire decades ago.