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AniCity Futures Workshop: Mobility in the City – Urban Innovation Centre. Do you have a smart idea to help mobility in the city?

aniCity Futures Workshop: Mobility in the City – Urban Innovation Centre

What innovative product would you like to see tested within an urban context? Later this year, Future Cities Catapult, and partners, will offer citizens, researchers and businesses the opportunity to build and test experimental products and services on top of a robust urban data platform. Successful experiment proposals will gain access to the data platform, tools, facilitation and some funding to get work off the ground.

Environment

Creative Future Green Home Designs and Plans. What does a 21st century home look like?

Creative Future Green Home Designs and Plans

We recently gave a rundown of some of the features we can expect in the next wave of amazing, green houses (in 21 Ways To Build A 21st Century Home). But since we’re already in the 21st Century, you’d expect to see some of these innovations put into practice already. And you’d be right. Here are 15 amazing futuristic innovations that you can see at work right now: 5 Futuristic Applications that Are Here NOW : Innovation.

Books you don't need in a place you can't find. David points us to the Montague Bookmill.

Books you don't need in a place you can't find

This is the bookstore of the future, because it's not a business trying to maximize growth and ROI. No, it's a place, an attitude, an approach to an afternoon. They don't sell every book, they don't even pretend to.

Real Estate