Tag Archives: controversial
Engineering rain that doesn’t get you wet
Explore how an artist’s collective have engineered rain that won’t get you wet…
Handmade healthcare: Rebuilding the NHS with craft
The story of how a traditional craft has created a new technology to save lives on the NHS.
Social design in antisocial times
Head down, coffee in-hand, off to work. Can design help improve social interaction?
The robot vacuum cleaner with a personality
The vacuum cleaner that can communicate with you and clean your house to order.
CITE: The ghost city built to test future tech
Humans Invent talks to the CEO behind the unique $1bn “ghost city” built to test technology.
Love Me! The attention seeking machine
A design duo from Vienna are challenging how humans approach manufacturing.
The machine that turns brainwaves into music
Artist Masaki Batoh combines brain waves, music and acupuncture to provide relief to Japanese tsunami victims.
The vibrating suit: Using sensors to train Olympians
Scientists at Birmingham University have developed technology that improves athletes’ movement.
Smart Skin: Squid and zebrafish inspire camouflage tech
Humans Invent finds out how we can imitate animals that can change colour by using artificial cells.
Rise of the urban farmer: Edible flowers to fish fed lettuce
FARM:shop is leading the way in making the most out of our crammed cities.
Tal Golesworthy: The man who repaired his own heart
How it took an engineer with no medical background to come up with a new piece of life-saving technology.
The Descriptive Camera: When images aren’t enough
The camera that replaces photos with written descriptions. Find out why.
Smart Cities: Using data to stop a congestion meltdown
Dr. Jon Reades talks us through how data could help fine tune the transport system.
Gut condoms to Charles Dickens: London laid bare
Behind the plaques: Remembering the famous, and the infamous with old and new techniques.
Ian Rankin: It would be a crime to kill off vinyl
The best-selling crime writer explains his ‘insane’ obsession with vinyl.
Inside art forgery: From chemical testing to infrared tech
Simon Gillespie invites Humans Invent into the world of art forgery.
David Sokosh: Brooklyn’s vintage watchmaker
David Sokosh restores vintage pocket watch movements to create new timepieces.
I hate perfume: Make me smell of England
The perfumer who hates perfume, Christopher Brosius, makes fragrances that evoke happy memories.
The Facebook Poking Machine: A social media invention
The invention challenging how we interact with each other in the modern world.
Digging for sunlight: The battle for solar efficiency
For something that comes from the sky, there’s an astoundingly large amount of digging to get solar working.
