Tokyo’s sprawling maze of ageing expressways, measuring 320 kilometres (or 200 miles) in length, have long been crying out for a facelify (AFP Photo/KAZUHIRO NOGI) More Tokyo (AFP) – As Japan takes on the mammoth task of upgrading its capital’s outdated roads and infrastructure, a local “highway doctor” is betting […]
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By the time Fitbit decided to make a smartwatch, it was already behind. It was 2014, and Apple had already announced its watch at its annual fall event. Android Wear was on its way to building up an ecosystem of watches, and Pebble had been around for years. Fitbit, meanwhile, […]
The UN Environment Programme estimates that Kenyan supermarkets hand out as many as 100 million plastic bags every year (AFP Photo/SIMON MAINA) More Nairobi (AFP) – A ban on plastic bags came into force in Kenya on Monday in a bid to slow pollution, with offenders liable to jail time […]
Who’s watching when you control your house from your phone?Guido Mieth/The Image Bank/Getty By Matt Reynolds How much of your privacy would you trade for a smarter home? Internet service providers (ISPs) can peek at the internet-connected devices people use in their own homes – baby monitors, TV set-top boxes, […]
Burning Man takes place every August in the middle of the Black Rock Desert in northwest Nevada. It’s not a pleasant place, with triple-digit temperatures, 30-mile-an-hour winds and blinding sand storms. Yet that doesn’t stop some 70,000 burners pouring in for a good time. And erecting an entire city in […]
Earlier this year, Collin Smith came into possession of an “intelligent” first aid kit. When he did, the first thing he did was try to outsmart it. The kit in question was the Comprehensive Rescue System, a sturdy, gray, 17-pound case of supplies custom-built by emergency management startup Mobilize Rescue […]
Neil Johnson used to study electrons as a buttoned-up professor of physics at the University of Oxford. Then, a decade ago, he decamped to the University of Miami—a young institution that he sees as unconstrained by rigid traditions or barriers between disciplines—and branched out. In recent years, the 55-year-old physicist […]
Yossi Wolf, the CEO of robot-maker Roboteam, almost didn’t want to call his newest product a robot. When people think of robots, he says, they expect the stuff of science fiction—machines with faces and personalities indistinguishable from humans. Temi, the rolling robot Wolf hopes you’ll soon have in your home, […]