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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.