8 Incredible Prototypes That Show The Future Of Human-Computer Interaction
Every year, the Association for Computing Machinery—the world's largest scientific and educational computing society—gathers to explore the future of computer interaction in a legendary conference...
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The Brutal Beauty Of The Earliest Super Computers
To hear some people talk, computers were never even remotely sexy until Apple released the first Mac. That's a lie. Computers have always been sexy, as these pin-up photographs of vintage computer...
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Can A Video Game Teach Designers To Build Better Cities?
Minecraft, Microsoft's explosively popular Lego-like world building game, has already inspired a whole generation of kids to become architects. Block'hood is a game that aims to do the same thing for a...
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Google Is Enlisting Artists To Paint Its Massive Data Centers
Our letters, our schedules, our photos, and our memories: all the most intimate details of our lives are increasingly stored in the cloud. But "cloud" is a bit of a misnomer. Our data isn't stored in...
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MIT's Latest Project? Giving You An Extra Robot Hand
For all of the promises made by Apple and Google, none of their smartwatches will give you superpowers. Strap on MIT's new wearable, though, and you can suddenly have an extra pinky, a third thumb, or...
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The Only Way To Turn On This Work Lamp? Turn Off Your Phone
Staying focused and concentrating when your smartphone is at hand is a perpetual problem. Tranquilo, a lamp by New Zealand-based designer Avid Kadam, offers a unique solution: the only way to turn it...
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Google's Secret Weapon Against Amazon Echo? Just Being Google
With Amazon's voice assistant in a can, Echo, the company found a small but smart niche of users and a foothold in the smart homes of the future. It hasn't had much competition—until now. Today at I/O,...
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Bringing Wheelchair Design Into The Digital Age
Human bodies come in all shapes and sizes, especially where disability is involved. But for the most part, wheelchairs are a one-size-fits-all affair. It's absurd, says British designer Benjamin...
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Google's Latest Accessibility Feature Is So Good, Everyone Will Use It
Inclusive design has a way of trickling down to benefit all users, not just the ones for whom it's originally intended. Voice dictation, for example, was originally pioneered in the 1980s as an...
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How Designing For Disabled People Is Giving Google An Edge
"Accessibility is a basic human right," Eve Andersson tells me, sitting on a lawn at the Shoreline Amphitheater during this year's Google I/0 developer conference. "It benefits everyone."Soft spoken...
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Inside The Design Of Google's First Smart Jacket
Last year, Google announced Project Jacquard: an intriguing plan to turn all of your clothes into touchscreen controllers, partnering with Levi's to incorporate the technology into its denim...
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Notifications Are Broken. Here's How Google Plans To Fix Them
Notifications suck. They're constantly disrupting us with pointless, ill-timed updates we don't need. True, sometimes they give us pleasure—like when they alert us of messages from real people. And...
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Google's Project Ara Is Challenging The Very Notion Of What A Smartphone Can Be
Google's Project Ara has had an arduous road to market. It began in 2013 as a pie-in-the-sky concept: a Lego-like system for building smartphones called called Phonebloks. Phonebloks went viral, and...
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Controlling A Smart Home Can Be As Easy As Tossing Keys In A Bowl
The smart home of the future will likely be controlled with your voice, which is why companies like Google and Amazon are putting so much effort into getting their ears into your living room. But voice...
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What Architects Make When They Play With Lego
Many kids who grow up to be architects get their start with Lego, but how do architects play with Lego when they're not kids any more? To find out, the Lego Store in New York's Flatiron District, in...
View ArticleLook Closer! This Spider Bot Is Actually A Person Walking
At first, this kinetic sculpture looks like 15 biomechanical insect legs twitching in mid-air, each one tipped by a small LED light. But watch long enough, and those lights synchronize. Soon, you don't...
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Tribe Mixes The Best Of Text And Video Chat
Although it's the most dominant form of communication in the mobile age, text messaging isn't particularly convenient. We put up with typing on our tiny, error-prone keyboards because it beats the...
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A Universal Interface That You Control By Doodling
Right now, the Internet of Things is controlled by a thousand little apps that mostly live in your smartphone, each with its own UI. But what would a universal UI for the IoT look like? In the mind of...
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The Extreme Couture Of London's Underground Club Scene
A bedouin bedecked in nothing but newsprint. An enantiomorph, shimmering in the dark like a human negative. An S&M demon with a vulva for a face. A bearded woman wearing a Technicolor dream coat. A...
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Nendo Designed A Whole Department Store, And It's Bonkers
What do you get when you ask the insanely prolific Japanese design firm Nendo to redesign a department store? The new Siam Discovery, a five-story retail complex in Bangkok that Nendo has turned into a...
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