How One Company Evolved an 187-year-old Game

The decision to expand a product line, innovate around a new idea, or move into a new area of business altogether is a difficult one. For example, you might reap the benefits of a larger customer base but spread your staff too thin to provide any semblance of effective support. Regardless, expansion will likely cost more time and money than […]

House-In-A-Cliff

It’s official: the beautiful and bizarre house-in-a-cliff known as Casa Brutale is actually being built. We reported last July on this crazy concrete design, which would be carved into a cliff overlooking the Aegean Sea, roofed by a transparent swimming pool and with a dizzying view of the sea below.  The stunning design quickly went viral, but few expected the project to […]

Smart Bra

A startup out of MIT is creating a wearable specifically aimed at better monitoring and understanding women’s cardiovascular health through an article of clothing worn closest to a woman’s heart: her bra. Bloomer Tech is developing flexible, washable circuits with sensors to be sewn into the lining of a bra. The smart bra device will monitor electrocardiogram signals from the heart (in […]

Smart Waste Bin

French company Uzer’s ‘Eugene’ is a waste bin with a smart twist. One of the biggest barriers stopping people from recycling, tragically enough, is that many people simply don’t know what can be recycled and what should be thrown into the trash. Eugene is able to recognize the packaging for nearly any product, and it can tell its owner which […]

Inspirational Spaces for Innovative Minds: How to Encourage Creativity in the Workplace

Creativity has never been so positively embraced. The defining quality of artists, poets, musicians, and writers throughout the ages, it is only recently that employers have begun to understand its importance in the cut-throat world of business. Yes, it often involves a lot of flounce and frill, but creativity is the closest thing to individuality, and in a world where […]

Forest Wool Furniture

Pine trees are the world’s main source of timber and every year 600 million pine trees are cut down in the EU alone. Latvian designer Tamara Orjola is using the parts of the tree that usually just get tossed aside while harvesting wood. Orjola creates biodegradable textiles, stools and carpets made of nothing but pine needles. Her project, ‘Forest Wool’, […]

Driverless Buses

Singapore will trial a pair of driverless buses. No, not micro buses, nor “Ollis” — full-sized buses, measuring 12 meters (40 feet) long. The vehicles will operate in the Jurong West region of Singapore, where the island’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is situated. The buses will ferry up to 80 people between NTU and the neighboring “eco-business” hub CleanTech Park […]

How to Make Your Office Millennial Friendly in Three Easy Steps

Millennials are not known for being a quiet bunch. The children of revolution and rapid social change, eighties, nineties, and noughties babies are outspoken, liberal, creative, and free-thinking, and the most successful companies have learnt to love them for these qualities. They inject a refreshing vibe into the businesses that social media and the internet culture have left floundering, bringing […]