German start-up Holoride has designed a virtual-reality experience for the backseats of taxis, for passengers in autonomous vehicles or for kids on long car trips. Holoride‘s games and visualisations provide entertainment that’s specifically tailored to passengers, incorporating the car’s real-time movements, such as acceleration and steering. The resulting experiences are not only immersive, they help to combat motion sickness by syncing […]
Car Sickness Battling VR
What Makes A Successful Kickstarter?
The internet is home to many crazy ideas, however, some of them aren’t always that crazy. In fact, some of them are worth a million dollars, or if it is a foldable metal straw, it could be worth $2 million. This was the idea of Emma Cohen and Miles Pepper who were irritated by the hideous amount of waste produced […]
3D’s Printer Unique Fingerprints
3D printers leave behind a type of “fingerprint” that can be used in tracing 3D-printed weapons through digital forensics, according to a joint-study released by university researchers in the US. Just as ballistics analysts can match a bullet to the gun that fired it by studying the markings on the bullet, so too can analysts look to the markings on […]
9 Premium Economy That Stretches Your Legs & Money
“Premium economy? Sounds like a pen for dirty animals.” That memorable quote comes from Rose Byrne’s character in the film Spy, upon hearing about this class of service for the first time, while flying in her private jet. While funny, there is some sad truth to it. What passes for domestic premium economy in the United States is nothing more than […]
Creating More Micro Living Space
The containers vary in width and depth to accommodate a range of contents, including a double mattress, clothing and toiletries. The lid of each unit conceals its contents and doubles as a floor panel. Bruijn developed MoreFloor during her final year at Design Academy Eindhoven in response to her own cramped urban living conditions. “I had a small apartment in […]
Google Maps To Add Speed Limits For Users
Google has rolled out speed limits to Google Maps, two years after the long-awaited feature started testing in San Francisco and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The speed limit feature will show the maximum speed for the road that drivers are traversing in the lower left side of the app. Google Maps will also now display the locations of speed traps […]
Retro Chopper Mixing With Urban Electric Style
Fat-tired electric cruisers with some retro chopper chic have popped up a few times over the years, the Scrooser from 2013 was followed by the Phatty in 2017 and then came the stripped back, stand up Strator last October. At about the same time as the latter was rolling out in California, German startup Schobba launched its own take on […]
Let Your Guests Connect With A Click
You know the scenario: A group of friends and family come to visit, and they all want to get on your Wi-Fi network, which means several tedious minutes of reading out the lengthy passcode for your network. That’s a problem that the new Wi-Fi Porter could solve. The dinky puck-shaped device uses NFC (Near Field Communications) – the same tech […]