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Shower curtain that limits your shower to 4 minutes

Elisabeth Buecher a textile-based installation artist and educator has invented a clever way to conserve water.   Titled “My Shower is a Green Warrior,” Buecher’s shower curtain turns spiky after four...

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A 3D printer that uses glass for ink

A group of MIT scientists have recently 3D printed some spectacular glass creations.The glass sculptures were created by a group called Mediated Matter, led by Neri Oxman at the Massachusetts Institute...

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Experience the creativity of music with Stringless Art and Technology

Stringless Art and Technology are divergent innovations for musical study that optimize learning and enhance creativity in the brain. Stringless Art and Technology is one of the featured exhibitors at...

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Organic Burial Pods Turn Your Loved Ones Into Trees

The very thought of death puzzles, touches and disturbs us all. One thing we do know for sure is that not one of us will escape death, and so you might as well know how you want to be buried. No matter...

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Groundfridge prefab root cellar will take you back to your roots

Before there were electric fridges, many people had root cellars. Those were essentially underground rooms with stable cool temperatures year round. You can now buy a Groundfridge from Weltevree, the...

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The biggest Product Design trends set for 2016

Winners of Inc.’s Iconic Design Awards come from all varieties of categories this year, including toys, sportswear, environment-saving home goods, and more. However they all share one key quality: they...

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MIT creates a video you can reach out and touch

Strictly speaking, video isn’t an interactive medium, but a new research project from MIT aims to change that: The school’s CSAIL lab has come up with a technique through which viewers can reach out...

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Wall-Crawling Robots Could Weave A Room For You

Last May, researchers at ICD Stuttgart revealed the Elytra Filament Pavilion—a vast, carbon fiber structure woven with the industrial arm of a modified Kuka robot. Now, in a thesis project led by Maria...

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AI to compose an original Rembrandt painting

Earlier this year there was an unprecedented collaboration between ING, Microsoft and TU Delft, with the willing participation of Dutch museums Mauritshuis and Rembrandthuis, to teach an artificial...

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8 Tech trends that will shape the future Of fashion in 2017

The fashion industry – from your department store to your luxury boutique – is undergoing significant change at the hands of the digital revolution. That’s not new in concept. Neither, mind you, is...

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Solving the housing crisis with cheap backyard ‘granny flats’

A startup out of Los Angeles, California, wants to bring small, pre-fabricated living spaces into the backyards of the country’s hottest real estate markets. The homes range in size from 300 to 1,200...

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Will A.I. and machine learning make everyone a musician?

Music and other live performance art has always been at the cutting edge of technology so it’s no surprise that artificial intelligence and machine learning are pushing its boundaries. As AI’s ability...

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Biometric ring to replace your passwords, cards and keys

Smart rings aren’t a new idea: There are plenty of fitness tracking, notification-sending, payment or even protective finger ornaments around. But none have the ability to identify you and authorize...

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A future without fakes thanks to quantum technology

Counterfeit products are a huge problem – from medicines to car parts, fake technology costs lives. Every year, imports of counterfeited and pirated goods around the world cost nearly US $0.5 trillion...

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Robot sculptors are hijacking galleries all around the world

Two weeks ago, in an industrial shed in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, a team of engineers installed a large, orange robot arm. It was a standard industrial robot arm, but it was not going to be...

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What would U.S money look like, given the proper attention of an industrial...

Bills so pretty you’d never spend them. Industrial designer Andrey Avgust hails from Belarus, a country whose currency I admit I’ve never seen. But he’s seen our yankee dollars and recognizes that...

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A.I. musicians are a growing trend. What does that mean for the music industry?

The most prolific musical artists manage to release one, maybe two, studio albums in a year. Rappers can sometimes put out three or four mixtapes during that same time. However, Auxuman plans to put...

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The visual trends that will define 2020

The creative industries help to define the look of an era. As much as architecture and literature have an enormous impact, the style and flavour of a decade is primarily decided by the creatives. While...

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This AI lyrics generator strings your random words into songs

The system provides a new cure for songwriter’s block  Could keyword lyrics provide a new cure for songwriter’s block? Songwriter‘s block can be a problem for even the world’s most successful...

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Bulleit introduces futuristic 3D printed cocktail

Different groundbreaking digital tools have infiltrated just about every aspect of the modern world as technology continues to improve at an ever faster rate. But one area that’s been largely untouched...

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