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It seems wireless loudspeakers have finally come of age. Not only are these Theia speakers from Goldmund better than almost anything with a wire, but they also have a whopping 875 Watts of power and are great to look at, with some impressive sophistication under the surface too. Mind yo…
There’s a whole world of television sets aimed at people who want something special and don’t mind paying for it. For example, there’s a 50,000 USD Bang & Olufsen called the Beovision Harmony 88 that’s not only the world’s first 88-inch 8K television set, it’s also the largest OLED …
Featuring the highest-resolution display yet on a VR headset, the 900 USD HTC Vive Cosmos is a PC-powered VR headset that smashes away both the Oculus Rift S (1280×1440 per eye) and the new Valve Index (1440×1600 per eye) with an LCD display that boasts 1440×1700 per eye …
Following in the footsteps of Bose who earlier this year released their first smart sunglasses, Huawei has come out with their own integrated-electronics sunglasses, which also boast a built-in mic and speakers. But they went further than Bose by developing a whole eyewear collection, i…
The human race currently throws out one million plastic water bottles every MINUTE, of which less than 7 per cent are recycled. Larq doesn’t just address this by being metal and reusable, it’s also able to magically clean itself and its contents of 99.999 per cent of harmful and odour c…
With a plan to launch Libra in 2020, a cryptocurrency that could change global commerce and finance for good, there’s plenty for Facebook to be optimistic about. Ramez Shehadi is leading the company’s foray into the Middle East, and there’s little standing in his way. If you think Faceb…
Few things devour time like recovering a forgotten password: four trusted combinations fail, then come the emails, the recovery steps and, worst of all, the dreaded lockout. There must be a better way.
After years of dire predictions and on the other side, libertarian, tech-loving and science-driven transhumanists rooting for the victory of machine over nature, AI has made its way into almost all aspects of our lives. Think about it, we’ve all experienced that strange feeling when som…
Meet the guys behind Anghami, the Middle East’s leading music streaming service and app. Eddy Maroun and Elie Habib take us inside their brand new offices and tell the story of how two guys on a ski slope came to be the heads of a company that now has 73 million users, 30 million songs,…
Zero Mass Water has the potential to change the lives of billions of people by using the power of the sun to make clean drinking water out of thin air. Have you ever wished you could make something appear out of thin air? Well that’s exactly what Cody Friesen did, as the founder and CEO…
California-based Dr. Molly Maloof wants to perfect people’s health and improve performance using the latest technology and a few unorthodox substances. Some cautionary advice: this may cause munchies. In terms of shaping the modern world, you could say that Silicon Valley is the world’s…
Unlike other e-bike manufacturers, LA-based Hi-Power Cycles don’t throw together pre-fab parts. Instead, they almost entirely craft their bicycles in-house, and in the case of their latest product, no cost was spared in its production process. Named the Revolution X, it took a team of a…
Any conversation of cryptocurrencies has to begin with an explanation of blockchain and why it’s so revolutionary. In essence, blockchain changes the way we transact with each other and allows us to move from a world of cloning (in which we have to make copies of files we want to send o…
Uber clearly wasn’t messing around when it said it would launch a pay-as-you-go flying ride-sharing service to metropolitan skylines. Using the name Uber Elevate, they’ve now signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to create a new air traffic control system to manage these low-flying aut…
Let’s take a moment to look into the not-too-distant future. Imagine that a robot has stolen your job and pushed you into a lower-wage occupation, if not out of the workforce altogether. Now, this isn’t science fiction, for a University of Oxford study estimated that due to advances in …
On September 12th, 1962, John F. Kennedy told the United States, “We choose to go to the Moon.” What JFK and the American public didn’t know yet was that by investing in its space programme, it was also getting memory foam, precision GPS, the cardiac pump, food safety …
With enough money, you can buy almost anything – even a bold new dawn.
Saudi Arabia made history by becoming the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. The humanoid robot, named Sophia, held a press conference in Riyadh in front in front leaders of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), telling them how ‘honour…
France plans for every car on its roads to be electric by 2040; India aims a decade sooner, and Norway is already thirty per cent there. CNN's Nicki Shields asks whether electric vehicles can go the distance.
Drawing inspiration from the concept of the coal miner’s canary, the Urban Canary is an electronic pet that reacts to pollution. It was designed to be carried by a child as they go about their day. The idea is that, through various sensors, it continually monitors air pollution and gets…
An unlovely acronym for one of metropolitan New York's richest enclaves, DUMBO has reinvented its nineteenth-century industrial bones as the centre of Brooklyn's tech scene and a parade of outrageously expensive real estate.
Known as the King of Vintage to devotees like Victoria Beckham, Rihanna and Amal Clooney, William Banks-Blaney has turned William Vintage into a global reference, now selling his rarefied couture finds worldwide online.
Solar and wind powered, Nice Architects' EcoCapsule is a cosy abode that lets you live off the grid with an almost zero-carbon footprint. Small enough to ship anywhere, the portable home draws clever cues from boat design.
How does one turn the mundane into the exceptional? Ken Kessler considers Vertu's answer, transforming the most ubiquitous of modern devices into a covetable luxury object for those who would always choose excellence over disposability.
Founded in 1925 by engineers Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen in small-town Denmark, Bang & Olufsen built a reputation for media devices marrying striking design with engineering, fuelling enduring demand the world over.
Hasselblad has accompanied NASA into orbit since 1962, and Armstrong and Aldrin captured the first lunar images on specially modified models. We trace the camera maker's long, storied association with space exploration and serious collectors.
A passionate audiophile who grew tired of today’s tinny sound, Princeton professor Edgar Choueiri is determined to bring high-fidelity sound to brand new depths. Naturally, my conversation with Edgar Choueiri begins with space. I’m sitting in the Lotos Club in New York’s Upper East Side…
A new breed of voice command devices already surpasses the fickleness of Siri or S Voice, responding to multiple voices, accents and dialects. We examine whether this finally puts users in the power position.
Dr. Anthony Atala is at the forefront of regenerative medicine. Along with his team at the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina, he’s using 3D printing techniques to produce human organs in the lab, a technique that promises to revolutionise our ability to heal ourselves. In 2011, Dr…
From Kenya's pioneering Ushahidi platform, built to trace post-election violence, to tracking oil spills and earthquakes, crowdsourced reporting maps are transforming how communities gather, share and act upon information in real time.
Commercial space travel was long dismissed as fantasy, its logistics deemed insurmountable rather than merely costly. But Branson never ignores a challenge, and where commercial viability beckons, he is determined to take the idea as far as possible.
Our visit to Bang & Olufsen's stylishly contemporary headquarters in rural Jutland proves to be both an audiophile's dream and a design junkie's paradise. Ninety-seven years on, the Danish purveyor of sound and vision remains gloriously inventive.
After a hit debut at a wedding, Abdalla launched the mobile photobooth service Fishfayce last summer. The concept, she says, preserves the funniest, most impulsively crazy moments at any event, bound only by guests' imagination.
Despite its fame, the famous handset struggles in tech round-ups and top-ten lists, with critics citing a thin app catalogue. Meanwhile the iPhone 4 grows slicker and faster with every release.
In August 2010, an Egyptian smartphone application called The Circle Tie, popped up on the radar and promised to serve as a GPS-based people finder, as well as a Twitter-style micro-blogging option for that vague sounding term ‘status updates’, and for locating WiFi hotspots in your area.
Hi-tech companies have been talking about it for a while, but only Philips has managed to release a 3D TV that gives stunning three-dimensional depth to the picture to date. The technology has been integrated in its top of the line, ultra-wide 21:9 Cinema series.
It has been just over 15 years since text messaging was first made available to mobile phone users. Today, billions of text messages fly through the airwaves each and every day, forming a bedrock of revenue and profit for the world's telecommunications companies. The widespread usage of te
Even with the planet suffering, most of us continue to neglect the environment as we compound the problems we’re doing nothing to resolve. Here are a few ideas to help you do your bit.
Bang & Olufsen has long been the undisputed design-meets-tech luxury electronics ruler of the audio-visual market. But with increasing competition compounded by some financial woes, is the brand still what it's cut out to be?
Motorola Droid The Droid is Motorola’s answer to Apple’s iPhone, one that runs Google's Android operating system. It’s a little narrower than Apple’s product yet marginally thicker, but the fact that it packs a larger, higher resolution screen as well a physical keyboard makes you wonder j
Social networking may fast be taking over the Internet but it’s a divisive past time: you either love it or hate it. Have these sites ever been remotely cool, or are they something you just can’t live without - however much you might like to?
What Steinway-Lyngdorf Model Model LS Series Who The world leader in the manufacturing of pianos and a European audio legend have come together to produce audio magic Why Simply the finest audio system money can buy www.steinwaylyngdorf.com With the advent of portable music players people
What ISAL Where KSA (STC – 806280, Mobily - 606560), Lebanon (MTC - 1007, Alfa - pending) Since January 2009 Why A fast growing, reliable, efficient and accessible sms information service providing timely responses to mobile phone users’ questions. www.isalsms.com ISAL is a Short Message S
Amid the plethora of gadgets available for Apple’s Ipod one company stands out from the crowd. Creston Electronics’ touchscreen controls, state of the art audio capabilities and innovative design mean that creating a wireless, modern home entertainment package is easier than you might thin
We live in a perilous world, and our children are more vulnerable than ever. With that in mind it is worth taking a look at some of the devices currently helping parents keep track of their children and watch over their wellbeing.
For those with fresh memory of the Betamax vs. VHS format war, it was a serious case of deja-vu when Bluray went head-to-head with HD-DVD (and came out a winner). But for the regular consumer, acronyms and strange names are only part of the problem to understanding the crazy world of techn
It seems that Japan is the one nation on earth with an obsession for making the best toilets. Toto is the nation’s front runner and their superbowls deserve commendation.
Genetic testing has allowed humankind to look at how he is made. Today, these tests are also allowing doctors and their patients to prevent the likelihood of genetic diseases. Fida Abi Karam reveals the latest trend in preventive medicine.
Cyberspace is a world unto its own. But there is one website, Second Life that gives you a whole new sense of being. Where Ramsay Short finds out you can be whoever you want and make money doing so.
Are genetically modified organisms a revolution in food production that will save our planet or are they a serious threat to our health and the environment? Iyad Kayali explains what GMOs are and how the multibillion dollar industry has entered our market.
Technophiles are always thinking of what it would be like to have an unlimited budget in order to set up the ultimate home entertainment system. Iyad Kayali delves into the glamorous high-tech world of Archimedia to find out more.
Drinking a Long Island Ice Tea or a Virgin Pina Colada used to only be possible when out of the house. Until, that is, Digital Beverages created the possibility of a digital bartender for your home.
As policymakers grapple for ways to circumvent reliance on fossil fuels, real estate developers are already championing the cause. As Habib Battah discovers, in the Gulf, environment-friendly projects are beginning to skyrocket.
At any good outdoor party of if you just want to lounge by the pool, music is key to your enjoyment. There are better ways of hearing your indoor sound system than by just turning the volume up. As Ken Kessler discovers, some speakers can weather the harshest conditions and still sing a go
Did you know that the web was created by Englishman Tim Berners-Lee (and not by Al Gore as is ‘famously’ thought) in 1991, at CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva? Did you also know that in 1994 there were 10,000 websites and now there are over 100 million? Berners-Lee’s visio