09 2018 February
The Disruption Issue: Norway’s Olympic Curling Pants, Saudi Solar And Soap Fetishes
This week disruption was the theme in multiple stories featuring everything from new ASMR videos, to rocket launches to more than one story warning about...
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04 2018 January
7 Exciting Trends To Watch From CES 2018
In the first years of publishing my annual trend report, I used to wait until early in the year just so I could go to...
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25 2017 October
Nissan Will Make Its Electric Cars “Sing” To Protect Pedestrians
Electric cars are too quiet. For years, unsuspecting pedestrians accustomed to listening for cars would walk into the road in front of electric cars, unaware of their...
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17 2017 October
How Chicken Feathers Could Be The Future Of Home Insulation
It takes some serious Non-Obvious thinking to dream up using discarded chicken feathers as a super efficient home insulation material – but that’s the idea...
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13 2017 October
DelivAir Launches Drone-to-Hand Delivery (Literally)
The last 50 feet is a problem for automated delivery and I have seen lots of solutions, from Amazon’s parachute drones to Mercedes’ delivery truck...
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11 2017 October
Google Buys Apple, Smart Hacker Probably Makes Millions
Did you hear Google was buying Apple for only $9b? The story went out over the wires earlier this week and immediately triggered automated investment...
Read Now12 2017 September
Why One Reporter Won’t Be Getting The iPhone X
In the first Night at the Museum film, the hero invents a “snapper” device to control your lights, but it loses to the “clapper” because clapping is...
Read Now30 2017 August
An Inside Look At The First Robotic Microapartment Design
As apartments get smaller and urban areas get more crowded, real estate companies and residents themselves will look for more creative ways to use limited...
Read Now24 2017 August
The Mask That Displays Your Emotions In Real Time
Rather than wearing your emotions on your sleeve, a new product called the Hyperface lets you wear them on your face. The idea from London-based...
Read Now17 2017 August
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Measure Food By Its Ingredients?
We already have Artificial Intelligence using features like facial recognition to personalize experiences for us, but this story about “AI Gastronomy” looks forward to a...
Read Now16 2017 August
The NuturePod Offers A Scary Prediction Of Future Parenting
Sometimes art is the best way to shine a lens on how our culture may be changing for better … or worse, as is the...
Read Now07 2017 August
Chinese Mall Installs “Husband Pods” For Bored Spouses
The bored husband at a shopping mall is one of the most common stereotypes of suburbia and now a Chinese gaming company has a solution...
Read Now06 2017 August
The Future of Elevators Could Go Sideways
What if elevators went sideways? They might soon thanks to a new system invented and being tested by German elevator producer ThyssenKrupp which aims to...
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