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Next year I’d like to have a robot, wouldn’t you?

Are we living in the future? It seems! According to the latest innovations in robotics, in addition to technological development, what is really changing is the real availability of robots, that we have only imagined for a long time. In…

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A Virtual Future

This virtual reality film and app, done by the New York Times, won the Grand Prix Lions Entertainment award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Media outlets from all over the world praised this film, and its creators for promoting…

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3D Printing Future of Construction

  In Dubai the first office completely 3d printed in loco: 17 days of layering of cement for a 250 square meters building. Will 3D printing succeed in lowering the costs of construction? http://mediaoffice.ae/en/media-center/news/23/5/2016/3d-printed-office-building.aspx

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Adidas environmental commitment

The Adidas xParley shoe is made of a thread coming from a company called Parley for the Oceans, spun from plastic waste and old fishing nets retrieved from the coast of Africa. Will such a commitment work in the long…

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Nomad Objects

There was a time, back in the early 2000 when the word “nomad”, linked to “design” lost many of its ethnic traits to be associated to digital culture and dematerialization: it was the time of new nomads, when nomadism lost…

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Controlling people: big data or bug data?

Google’s Quantum Computer works. The concern about government control and the risk that science may have gone too far sussists and it is reasonable that someone is claiming that both corporations and governments should be very careful handling with the new…

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