A pioneering virtual rehab platform is combining VR, gaming and motion capture to help make therapy fun. Virtual reality...
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A lot of staring at screens happens at Mobile World Congress – whether tapping away at your own rapidly depreciating handset, ogling smarter...
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Virtual reality has had a lot of press of late for its role as a catalyst for empathy. And one...
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Artist collective Basurama makes creative use of waste in order to re-think our relationship with unsustainable ways of living. ...
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“We believe that technology and renewable energy will not be enough to save us. And that for once, we should...
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Soils are the second largest global carbon sink after oceans and great allies against the climate crisis. Yet underground ecosystems...
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Games for Change is the world’s largest community dedicated to the intersection of games and social impact, empowering game creators...
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This educational video game highlights the importance of preserving ecosystems, caring for local fauna, and fighting urban speculation. Would...
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“Do you remember a time when the sky was filled with birds and bees, and colourful fruit grew from the...
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“It is important to tell our stories as refugees, to express ourselves, to be heard.” David Thok Koang, 16 years...
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The Amsterdam based Black Archives boasts an inspiring mixture of educational resources, cultural projects, and political organisation, highlighting the diversity...
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Young people are unleashing their creative brilliance by creating high end couture from everyday junk. At a time when...
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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
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Need a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving...
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The global sextech industry is huge and growing. If there was ever a time to want more pleasure, it’s during lockdown,...
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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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In this storybook sisterhood, a diverse range of phenomenal women mirror characters from books to inspire girls to read for...
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To seduce the public with culture, some saucy Spanish poets are prostituting themselves for money, but not in the way...
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Are you ready to speak frankly about gender issues and sexual taboos? Because this virtual art gallery wants you to...
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"Hope is sprouting in the margins, from the grassroots.” – Rhiannon White The stage is set… but not as you know...
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If you feel that formal education doesn't hold the answers to a sustainable future, take a few tips from Enrol Yourself...
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Some clothes become our office staples or Saturday night favourites – but, increasingly, some only ever have a place in our...
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Scrolling through Instagram, a Too Good To Go ad pops up in which a girl and a boy sprint through...
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Think adults don’t play Minecraft? Think again. Games help solve society's challenges. Minecraft is a lot more than the biggest video game...
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Good news: Kindness has gone viral. OK, things are definitely weird now that we're inside for the foreseeable. But on...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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Exciting rewilding projects are happening at vastly different scales all around the world – as more and more people make...
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Dystopian science fiction movie Ready Player One (2018) showcased a futuristic world where it’s possible to live life in virtual reality, meeting...
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The F.A.K.E. Movement is a platform where vegan and ethical designers can promote proudly their clothes and accessories. Created by Jonathan...
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"Why do an equality lineup now? Because we should have done it ages ago." It's 2019 and we've all had...
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In an ever-changing creative landscape, today's youth need to become multi-disciplinary – skilled at being creative in different mediums. Pitch Futures...
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“In the 20th century, we learned to read, so we could read to learn. Now, we’re learning to make so...
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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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“We want to drive political action with our work, and I don’t think you can do that sitting down.” –...
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The things NASA want to do next are “really, really hard”. There is a misconception NASA is concerned only with...
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"Do you have any family or friends that you’d like to record a message for?" A walk along Market Street in San...
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In Argentina, the term villa miseria is used to describe the impoverished shanty towns that exist within large urban settlements. And in Buenos...
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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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Fasten your helmets as this week we're exploring creativity in the most toxic place on earth and getting lost in...
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In old Norse mythology the Aesir are the principal gods of the pantheon. In present day Hong Kong AESIR are serious games for social inclusion....
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Imagine being stuck in a room you can’t escape. You hear voices: “Do it!” “Stop it!” Light shoots out of...
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Girl bikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; this digital platform shows you a different side of Pakistan....
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Turning the silver screen green and providing a ray of light in South Africa (literally), Sunshine Cinema is not just an...
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"These sneakers were designed with silk sourced from the Brazilian producer Hermès uses." So ran the Vogue headline in an article...
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In the 1980s, sci-fi prophet William Gibson coined the term 'cyberspace' to describe a consensual hallucination created by millions of computers that we...
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We're big fans of simple tech that makes things better. While mobile Internet rapidly becomes a primary source of knowledge, not...
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What do Uber flying cars, Hoversurf drone taxis, Amazon's giant mothership zeppelin, the Soviet city in the sky and these visions of high-elevation life have...
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A festival in a coastline settlement in Lagos is challenging the notion of art in the white cube. Iwaya Community Art...
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Curiscope's Virtuali-Tee is a t-shirt with guts. The ‘smart’ garment projects biology onto children in order to teach them about anatomy. Described by...
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Vienna-based Helioz aims to solve the problem of the lack of access to safe drinking water in the Global South, through...
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Every year Sónar+D forms a key part of the stamina-pushing Sónar Festival, one of Europe's biggest and most forward-thinking dance music events. If you...
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Just as the Atlas mission is to 'Democratise the Future', littleBits is on a mission to 'Democratise Hardware' by empowering everyone –...
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As more and more sensors, electronics and data radically transform the way we understand cities, Carlo Ratti makes dazzling interactive environments from the information we...
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Robots and humans are working together to save water, enhance agriculture and make wine lovers very, very happy. An estimated...
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Pakistani human rights activist Gulalai Ismail set up Aware Girls when she was just 16-years-old to empower women and girls in her country....
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Submitted by you: Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project has been dedicated to the protection of wild and captive dolphins worldwide since...
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US election outcomes are always governed by expensive campaigns and big money, but this year the role of money has...
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Tania Hadjithomas Mehanna knows that wonderful things happen in the resilient and energetic Lebanon – and that they deserve to be heard of....
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Imagine living on a massive ice shelf thousands of miles away from anyone else, that when the weather gets warmer...
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The internet's getting fired up over new web browser Brave which claims to block harmful ads and replace them with 'clean...
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For the first time ever there is a clinic which focuses specifically on the body and caring for it after...
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Understanding climate change is at times a perplexing business. Communicating it is a considerable challenge, especially for those who might...
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Since the Atlas launch just a few months ago we've seen some of the most forward-thinking and insightful minds on the planet walk through our...
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By now you’ve probably had some exposure to the driverless technology phenomenon – even if it’s that taxi in Total...
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From a Noah’s Ark of seeds and American Idol for rural farmers to 3D printing prosthetics in conflict zones and...
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In March the French government decreed that all new buildings in commercial zones must construct gardens or solar panels on...
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The virtual reality storyteller and documentary producer, who has realised the visions of Terry Gilliam, Chris Milk, Spike Jonze, Robert...
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Dengue fever is a fast-growing and sometimes fatal disease which infects an estimated 390 million people every year. In Abingdon,...
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Samantha Storr keeps a low profile, but is very much the woman behind top directors Terry Gilliam, Chris Milk, Spike Jonze...
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Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
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Known for his genetic research, biochemistry scientist and Stanford University professor Patrick Brown has created a plant-based hamburger that ‘bleeds’ just...
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This is the obvious front-runner. Elon Musk and his gang of geniuses are changing the world at a rate the...
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Honestly, we all know the Elon Musks of the world, and we know the amazing work they’re doing, like the...
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A new industry first in freight shipping is gaining popularity. With rising anticipation of a global emissions tax, land and air-based...
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Although I might struggle to find the long term social good of having shoes that light up and tie themselves,...
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Imagine a virtual world overlaid on top of the real one, with full physical interaction between you and the digital...
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Access to water in Afghanistan is among the lowest in the world and many wells that exist are contaminated with...
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I'm thrilled to introduce myself as editor-in-chief of Atlas of the Future, the new international Barcelona-London venture from Oriol Soler, Cathy...
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