Providing pure creativity in a digital world, Barcelona-based creative symposium OFFF is more than a design festival with unbridled Fs. It's a...
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Projects
Salus.Coop imagines a world where citizens control their health data. The future of our health depends largely on the...
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To stay ahead in an increasingly automated world, we’ll need to be more human than ever. You’ve probably heard the...
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The best built-in odour sensor? It’s sitting on your face. Did you know that around the world, odour pollution...
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“Your eyes will be of no help. So close them, sharpen your hearing and your blade… And embark on an...
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The World Bee Project is using Artificial Intelligence and computing technology to understand the local challenges facing bees across the...
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The Drones for Whale Research programme is on a mission to democratise whale science through cheap and non-invasive technology. ...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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The combination of laser and ozone technologies allows Jeanologia to finish a pair of jeans using just a glass of...
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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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Fancy fabricating your own beehive in 30 minutes? A buzzy giant hive of makers and beekeepers have come together in...
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Rain might be rare in the Moroccan desert, but there is no shortage of mist. Thanks to North Africa's largest fog...
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Water is getting the digital treatment. Within a network of innovative control towers in Spain, people are coming together with...
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Many students ponder what they will do after university, but fewer find that passion and follow it to the point...
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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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An innovative system of huge yellow floodgates is blocking the Adriatic Sea to hold back the tide, inspired by Moses parting the...
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Is there water on Mars? This technology was designed to tell us, but now it’s being used to see leaks...
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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
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This collective online platform can make a difference for rare disease patients and their families. Rare diseases amount to...
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Want a world with cleaner air? Try on this coat for size. Aldo Sollazzo and the team at WEARPURE.tech have created a...
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“You can spend your time on Facebook and Instagram, or spend half of that time helping researchers realise their objectives!”...
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Today, smartphones are as fast as 120,000,000 Apollo 11 computers, which were capable of taking people to the moon. If we...
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Backpacks with integrated school desks; modular tiles and twisty joints; pop up recycling trailers; and even a child’s rocker –...
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Excited by biofertilisers? Want to know about biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens and compost tea – or get down and dirty...
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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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The aquaponics game is fun, and now Aquapioneers wants to show Barcelona that it's also easy to harvest fish and grow food without...
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Do you know what an open source restaurant is? Located in Barcelona's Poblenou’s 22@ neighborhood, Leka is the first of its...
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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
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Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is an example of a distributed 21st century design. Their purpose is to democratise mobility – by enabling...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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Language is a tricky thing: vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and numerous irregularities and inconsistencies. If that’s not enough, regional differences and...
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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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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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If Antoni Gaudí were around today he would surely relish the advances 3D printing technologies are bringing to architecture, art...
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The words ‘unmanned aerial vehicle’ (UAV) may not sound particularly exciting, but use the more common name – drone – and a much...
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Our thirst for computer programs and mobile apps shows no sign of abating. From online to the impending launch of...
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Today billions of people do not have access to clean water, electricity and the Internet. Watly is a generator that aims...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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Mexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
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Barcelona's former factory neighborhood Poblenou, meaning 'new town', is witnessing a new type of industry in the neighbourhood’s streets. A...
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Submitted by you: Familyar is an app to prevent loneliness and social isolation of older adults by deeply involving families...
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In Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
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With more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, a tremendous amount of waste and energy must...
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With Google as an indispensable tool omnipresent in everyday life, it’s easy to feel like we have all the information...
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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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The more our lives have been transposed to the internet, the larger our personal data trails have become. Bank details,...
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While sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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Submitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
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On rolling pastures in the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, cattle peacefully graze on thick blades of grass. A...
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As humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
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In the past, studies into stroke rehabilitation have used restriction of movement in order to encourage recovery. The Rehabilitation Gaming System...
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In 2005, Stockholm-based philanthropist Hans Rosling predicted that differentiating between hard data and opinion would be one of the digital...
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Back in June 2011, civil unrest proved its ability to act as a catalyst for political change and amid bloody...
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If you could see the world through the eyes of the other, would it make it a better place? A...
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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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