Category: Technology

A Volvo Concept Car Embraces a ‘Digital Detox’ Interior, Features Indoor Garden
The Volvo Haven is an unusual and sophisticated concept car, with an interior that ditches screens and overt technology for a zen-like, plant-filled space.
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Sway Is Working to Use Seaweed Material to Replace Single Use Plastic
Sway is a new materials company looking to replace single-use plastic with seaweed based products.
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X Shore is Making One of the World’s First Commercially Available Performance Electric Power Boats
Made in Sweden, the X Shore is a handsome, future-forward electric powerboat.

Here’s a Very, Very Close Up View of Your Cloth Mask
Scientists and researchers wanted to know what actually happens when you wear a cloth face mask. So, they put various masks under a scanning electron microscope.
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Adobe’s New ‘Super Resolution’ Can Double a Photo’s Sharpness and Quality
While it's not quite up to Hollywood's silly level, Adobe's new Super Resolution tool can double an image's clarity and quality using A.I.
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Sunne Is a Solar Powered Light That Brings Sunset Hues Into Your Home
Sunne is a sleek and elegant solar light that hangs in your window, harnessing energy from the sun and then diffusing it at night like a gentle sunset.
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Canoo’s Newest Pickup is Adorable Yet Highly Functional
Canoo's new all-electric pickup truck is highly utilitarian, while also a welcome departure from current macho designs.
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New Printing Technique Allows for Intricate Hair Designs
Spanish hairdresser Alexis Ferrer has created a way to print full color designs onto hair extensions, resulting in patterns and intricate styles we've never seen before.
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Urban Sun Hopes to Make Public Spaces Virus Free By Using Far-UVC Light
Ever the inventor, Daan Roosegaarde of Studio Roosegaarde has created something called Urban Sun, an elevated light that is meant to disinfect public spaces of airborne Covid-19.
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Hyundai’s New Ionic 5 Is a Bold Design Direction for EVs
The 2022 Hyundai Ionic 5 is the company's most important EV release to date, with a unique sharp angle profile, and a style that feels both vintage and futuristic at …
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Same Energy is a Fully Visual Search Engine
Same Energy is a new visual search engine to find just the right image

An Eggless Egg Made from Mung Beans
Just is a company that has an egg-alternative made from mung beans, promising to replace your daily scramble.

See How A.I. Brings These Historical Figures in Paintings to Life
Nathan Shipley is using artificial intelligence to bring historical figures to life, in ways we’ve never seen before. Most of these figures lived far before the advent of photography, so …
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Organic Supertall Towers will Reach 1200 Feet into the Air
Famed architect Zaha Hadid may be gone, but the firm she founded lives on, and with it, her legacy of truly amazing architectural projects.
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Bird Buddy is a Smart Feeder that Lets You Finally Snag That Clear and Crisp Bird Photo
Bird Buddy is a smart bird feeder that recognizes your feathered visitor, and lets you snap a crisp, in-focus photo of them, for once.
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Oh Yes, the Robots are Dancing Now
Try not to be impressed by these robots dancing to The Contours' 'Do You Love Me'.

Santa’s New Ride
Made from steam-bent Scandinavian Ash, bronze-plated skis, candy cane lacquer and even a solar panel to provide a heated seat, this sleigh will take Santa to his millions of Christmas …

Ford’s 021C Concept Car Was Years Ahead of its Time, Still Looks Good 20 Years Later
The 1999 Ford 012C Concept was designed by Marc Newson, and still looks relevant, 20+ years later.
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A Solar Coating Made From Food Waste Turns Every Window Into a Power Generating Surface
A new solar film invention captures UV light particles, and can be applied to any existing window.
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Concept for Tesla Electric Bicycle Presents an Intriguing Design
Designer Kendall Toerner hasn't waited for a Tesla bike to arrive, instead creating a compelling concept design for a 'Model B' bicycle, with a streamlined, futuristic design.
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MINI Vision Urbanaut Electric Van Concept
Electrek gives us a peek at the MINI Vision Urbanaut, a new electric concept van meant to showcase the company's autonomous thinking.