Headset provides ‘3D soundscape’ to help blind people navigate cities
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Microsoft’s GPS-enabled navigation headset provides directions and live transport information, and ‘paints a picture of the world through sound’
Tag: Technology
Flying car approaches liftoff as most advanced prototype yet is unveiled
30 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Its almost here ! At last the Flying Car !!
Why Kim Kardashian has a stash of BlackBerry phones
28 October 2014 • Mark Westall
A BlackBerry Bold is Kardashian’s ‘heart and soul’ and other phones simply can’t compare, but is she the last of a dying breed?
FAD Q+A with Perry-James Sugden #PostDigitalWeekend @DegreeArt
26 July 2014 • Ben Austin
Perry-James Sugden speaks about the communication used in his innovative works, and how he incorporates technology such as phone, texts and emails to create his art.
4D-printing: from self-assembling chairs to cancer-fighting robots
13 April 2013 • Mark Westall
The future is here. Project Cyborg will revolutionise the way designers think by training materials to build themselves – and adapt to their surroundings
What have you done with your Raspberry Pi?
1 March 2013 • Mark Westall
From drones to drumkits, the Design Museum wants to see what you have made of your $25 credit-card-sized computer
Textile futures: the living shoe and the strawberry plant that grows lace
24 January 2013 • Mark Westall
What will we be making shoes out of in 2080? And will our clothes come from fruit? One college course studies exactly that
Bodleian Library launches £2.2m bid to stop Fox Talbot archive going overseas
11 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Inventor and pioneering photographer left ‘unique’ collection of images, experiment notes and correspondences
Print yourself: the rise of the 3D photo booth
24 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Shops in Tokyo and New York are offering you the chance to turn yourself into a miniature plastic action figure
TECHNOLOGY CREATES AUGMENTED REALITY FOR 12 HRS IN SHOREDITCH
12 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The Lush Prize is designed to reward groups or individuals working in the field of cruelty-free scientific research, awareness-raising and lobbying to help bring an end to animal testing.
Brickstarter: crowd-funding takes to the streets
27 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Have an idea for a public space? A new website based on the Kickstarter model could make citizen-based urban planning a reality
Ten more UK galleries join Google Art Project’s virtual culture tours
3 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Ten British galleries join likes of Palace of Versailles and the White House as online museum grows to 30,000 objects
Photographers’ Gallery in London to reopen in May after £8.9m facelift
31 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Work by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky to feature in initial shows at seven floor West End site
Robot cleaners and the Museum of Me: Intel’s vision of the future
28 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Intel’s best-known project might be gimmicky, but its new collaboration with the Royal College of Art is full of daring
How Steve Jobs made the world more beautiful
7 October 2011 • Mark Westall
The Apple aesthetic has transformed how we see our lives – and the future
Race to save digital art from the rapid pace of technological change
12 May 2011 • Mark Westall
Pioneers of computer art are in danger of becoming the lost generation of our cultural heritage because scientists are unable to preserve their work