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Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.
As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic... →
Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure... →
One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and... →
The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example... →
The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral... →
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
Phone networks can capture life on our planet.
The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped... →
Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to... →
We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the... →
When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better... →
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