Since NASA announced its return to the moon in 2024 with the artemis mission, a plethora of projects around this have surfaced. From BIG’s lunar habitat to toyota’s self-driving moon rover, creatives, researches, engineers and scientists around the world are imagining ways to inhabit earth’s satellite. the turn is now for andrew fabishevskiy who has envisioned a motorcycle concept designed f...

Toyota Patent Shows Self-Driving Drone Tankers for Car-to-Car Recharging and Refueling. Robots helping humans—and possibly other robots.Being stuck on the side of the road has been a problem since cars were invented, and indeed it still happens today. Toyota seems to be especially tired of it, though, because we recently came across a patent that outlines a system by which an autonomous drone...

Don’t Fear the Robots, and Other Lessons From a Study of the Digital Economy. A task force assembled by M.I.T. examined how technology has changed, and will change, the work force.L. Rafael Reif, the president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered an intellectual call to arms to the university’s faculty in November 2017: Help generate insights into how advancing technology has c...

Giraffe360 has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. It has now raised $4.5 million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. Also participating is HCVC (Hardware Club), alongside existing investor Change Ventures.The startup is l...

PwC and UNICEF, in support of Generation Unlimited, believe securing digital access for millions of youth can be a driver of new, more resilient economies.As the pandemic moved essential activities and services online, including education, jobs and training, the challenges for global youth to get or stay connected have only grown. According to UNICEF, one-third of the students around the world...

Orange slices that were quickly and efficiently dried using the new technique.When you think of processes that could benefit from a high-tech makeover, the drying of fruit may not be the first one that comes to mind. It turns out, however, that the use of "ionic wind" for fruit-dehydration both saves energy and preserves nutrients.For most of us, the application of heat may seem like the obviou...

As part of hongik university industrial design department’s 2020 online degree show, two groups of students have shared their projects that envision the future of home fitness. The first project is a smart fitness mirror designed by eunsoo ko and daye yang. the second proposal comprises a smart boxing and cardio system, and it’s been devised by hye min eom and jeong a seo.‘merge’ is a smart...

In an all-digital world exclusive premiere, MINI unveils the Vision Urbanaut – a vision of space in an all-new form.The interior design of the electric vehicle – at first reminiscent of a living room – literally pushes the boundaries of interior space and versatility on a minimal footprint in combination with a purist mono-volume exterior design. in fact, it showcases a wide range of usage t...

The pandemic is changing how many are going to be celebrating the holiday season this year.This Thanksgiving is going to look unlike any other in our lifetime due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But that isn’t stopping people from finding ways to celebrate and preserve tradition, according to recent data from Engine Insights, which polled more than 1,000 adults in mid-October.About half of those sur...