24 2024 July
Welcome to a Future Where Food Is Made from Thin Air
Last year when Henry and I were writing The Future Normal, we wrote about a trend we named Unnaturally Better and profiled Solar Foods, a company...
Read Now17 2024 July
After 40 Glorious Years of Simplicity Notepad Gets “Improved” By Adding Autocorrect and Spellcheck
I admit I’m a Notepad junkie. I use it nearly every day to capture ideas for stories, writing to use elsewhere and just general notetaking....
Read Now04 2024 July
Neuralink May Create a Generation of Gamers with Superhuman Reflexes
Earlier this year Noland Arbaugh became the first patient to receive a brain-computer chip implanted by Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink after a diving accident left him paralyzed....
Read Now21 2024 June
Scent Camera Recreates Travel Smells and More Core77 Design Award Winners
For the 12th year, the Core 77 Design Awards have spanned 22 categories and showcased product, branding and conceptual ideas from students and professionals imagining...
Read Now04 2024 June
Marques Brownlee and Walt Mossberg on Trustworthy Tech Reviews
How useful will tech reviews (or any other kind of online review) be in a future where they can increasingly be AI generated? This was...
Read Now31 2024 May
Soundproof Silk May Transform How We Manage Noise at Home and Work
Early in the pandemic I decided to make a home studio and looked into installing sound panels. Unfortunately, they were generally expensive, bulky and needed...
Read Now10 2024 May
The Lost Emotion of “Perfectly Colorized” Old Black & White Photos
A photographer edited and colorized 30 vintage black and white photos. His intention was to “breathe life into these vintage snapshots, turning monochrome memories into vibrant...
Read Now02 2024 May
Can Seaweed Mining Become the Next Billion Dollar Industry?
A tiny branch of the US Department of Energy focused on high-risk projects just awarded $5 million dollars to three startup ventures that are each...
Read Now23 2024 April
What Would You Put In the “Forever Library” to Archive Human Existence for a Billion Years?
Several million years from now when future civilizations or aliens or whatever is around then look back on human existence, at least they will know...
Read Now16 2024 April
Playing Happy Reef Sounds Could Bring Coral Reefs Back to Life
A happy and healthy coral reef has a sound. The various “snaps, groans, grunts and scratches that form the symphony of a healthy ecosystem” are...
Read Now15 2024 April
Augmented Reality Comes to Sports, Thanks to Wrestlemania
Last weekend The Rock made his return to wrestling and a “new era” for the sport was on display at WWE’s Wrestlemania 40 event. The...
Read Now11 2024 April
Aruba Becomes First Nation to Use the Internet Archive to Back up Their Entire History
The Indigenous population of Aruba was first colonized by the Spanish, and then the Dutch – which has given the Caribbean island a diverse history....
Read Now10 2024 April
The App That Recreates Social Media’s Dopamine Hits Without Actually Letting You Post Anything
One of the irresistible allures of social media has always been the dopamine hit from people engaging with the things that you post. Getting likes feels good....
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