German companies controLED and RFID GmbH by Geschwister Flötotto launched the let’s be smart project with Koelnmesse for the 2018 IMM event. Several of the top tech and furniture companies leading the IoT industry today partnered with them to generate a truly smart home in which everything works together. Located in...
Portugal’s Web Summit, the “largest tech conference in the world”, once again brought over 1,000 speakers and 60,000 attendees. From this special event, we gathered information on how urbanism can benefit from technology and how this could soon affect the design of our cities.
ArchiExpo e-Magazine interviewed...
This year at Batiment, the bi-annual construction fair in Paris, products in the innovation sector are revolutionizing the way we build.
Augmented Reality
AR technology can assist professionals in space planning and design visualization. Cover Augmented Reality by Cover Group and DIVENT’ by Kostum give customers the...
It’s 4pm at Manchester’s newest rugby stadium. The pitch is empty, but inside, a group of city planners, architects, local government officials and IT nerds have spent the day imagining a world where street lights turn off when no one is around, public services as branding opportunities, park benches as charging...
German magazines Bauwelt and D-B2 organized a guided tour for architects during the fair. We were taken to several stands for product presentations from carpets to lighting and a focus on acoustics, sustainability and smart choices.
Object Carpet gave a presentation on how to use its online configurator in the...
Experts are now explaining what’s in store for the future of IoT and how to get there.
“Where design today focuses on physical products, design of the future will be about data-driven products and experience. Where innovation today is about creating new products, innovation of the future will be focused around...
Recently, Peter Taylor had an epiphany. He was at a restaurant with his young daughter who was annoyed that the lights were too bright. At home she was used to controlling the lights with her voice using Amazon Echo so she shouted:
“Alexa, lights off!”
The waiter was perplexed as to why a girl would talk to the...
Andrei Speridião designs connections. He moves beyond and between fabrication, technology, interactive objects and conceptual exchanges, developing innovative networks of people and things using digital thinking.
The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. The Brazilian designer was raised by a designer mother who...
Never get lost in your work environment again, and forget depending on a GPS or Wi-Fi. “The human-machine interface company” Daqri launched the Smart Helmet to enhance sensing capabilities outside the user’s traditional senses. The helmet fuses the company’s Intellitrack technology and native augmented reality...
The Fire Line Automatic 3 by Planika took first place for the iNovo iSaloni Tech award. An endless line of fire ignites due to the connection of multiple units, which are controlled with any smart device through a Wi-Fi system. The FLA 3 also connects to any Smart Home System and makes for a beautiful addition both...
