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    Stay warm longer with solar-harnessing jackets

    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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    Aging Simulation Suits

    While other robotic devices at CES 2016 are meant to make daily life easier and tasks streamlined, the R70i Aging Experience makes everyday activities more challenging by simulating the physical effects of old age. Insurance company, Genworth, collaborated with engineers ...
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    VR Relaxation Pods

    While there are a number of revolutionary VR applications in the works, one company is taking a unique approach by using the technology for mediation purposes. In short, traditional mindfulness may soon be accessible via a non-traditional medium. The new ...
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    Marcela Sapone: Hospitality Requires the New Human Interface

    The future of consumer tech is putting humans back in the computing loop and connecting the offline and online worlds in ways we have never seen. Technology is running us, and not the other way around. People walk around on ...
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    New Report Defines Six Strategies to Power 2017

    While most people are thinking about the year ahead, PSFK Labs focused our gaze a bit further into the future. In our 2017 Forecast, we outline the trends that will shape creative business not only in 2016, but for the ...
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    World’s largest waste-to-energy plant proposed for Shenzhen

    Danish firms Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects have won a competition to design the world’s largest waste-to-energy power plant in China (+ movie). Proposed for the mountainous region on the outskirts of Shenzhen, the waste-to-energy plant is expected to incinerate 5,000 tonnes of rubbish per ...
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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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    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 ...