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    The Next Phase of Wearable Tech Is…Better Fashion

    Wearable technology has been contested by fashion editors from its inception, with too gimmicky high-tech accessories not faring well with the latest styles. For these type of connected products to truly proliferate, they need to evolve to complement—or exist within—everyday apparel. Today, ...
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    Skywalks Linking Stockholm Roofs Would Accommodate Newcomers

    As a city whose rapidly growing population numbers do not appear to be leveling off any time soon, Stockholm needs to find a way to accommodate legions of new residents without succumbing to uncontrollable sprawl. A plan commissioned by Sweden’s ...
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    Stress-Detecting Dresses

    As part of a collaboration with designer Becca McCharen and her Chromat label, Intel is creating smart clothing pieces that fuse cutting-edge fashion and technology. One of the dresses created in the project is called the ‘Adrenaline Dress,’ a design ...
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    Nutrient-Infusing Bottles

    The modern consumer is constantly looking out for ways to both prioritize a healthy lifestyle and efficiency, which are two notions the LifeFuels Smart Sport Bottle adapts seamlessly. Working like a personal assistant for consuming nutrients, the LifeFuels Smart Bottle ...
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    For some of us, the Internet could be doing more harm than good, report finds

    The Internet has changed our lives for the better in so many ways: we can talk to our grandparents on the other side of the world in an instant, we can access the combined knowledge of the world in one ...
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    Long Island house by Bates Masi Architects has adjustable sound barriers for walls

    New York studio Bates Masi Architects added sprung cedar boards that can be acoustically “tuned” to this house in The Hamptons, so residents can have noisy parties without disturbing their neighbours (+ slideshow). Designed for studio co-founder Paul Masi, Elizabeth II house occupies a ...
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    Pop-Up Wellness Outlets

    Every so often, New York City’s STORY retail store completely changes its theme, much like an art gallery that features ever-changing curated collections. In the spirit of the arrival of a new year and all of the resolutions that come ...
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    March Studio created Hotel Hotel lobby and bar by recycling “thousands of pieces of timber”

    Inside Festival 2015: in this exclusive movie, Rodney Eggleston of March Studio explains how the Australian firm used over 5000 lengths of reclaimed wood to create the award-winning interior for a Canberra hotel. March Studio designed the ground floor spaces of Hotel ...
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    Our brain’s memory capacity is 10 times larger than we thought

    The human brain’s memory capacity may be as much as 10 times larger than previously thought, according to a new study by scientists in California that looked at how hippocampal neurons in the brain function with low energy but high ...