Oct 15, 2022 | Innovation
Alex Knoll was only 9 years old when he saw a man in a wheelchair struggling to open a door. He wondered if there was an app that could help the man find stores in the area which had automatic doors. He did some research, couldn’t see an app like that and began to...
Jul 31, 2022 | Innovation
The best technology on Planet Earth is Nature. It has to be…. or how could humans have survived for thousands of years? And mushrooms are not only ecological wizardry, they can be beautiful too – as shown by Aaron Tipton in his image of one seen from...
Jul 21, 2022 | Innovation
Nature and ancient wisdom have the solutions to reduce rising temperatures in cities around the world. Amid record temperatures hitting Spain each summer, Madrid is planning a new urban park that will lower city temperatures by 4 degrees Celsius. An urban forest will...
Jul 11, 2022 | Innovation
Professor Veena Sahajwalla is a recycling superstar with big and bold ideas on how to save waste from landfill. Living in Mumbai as a child, Veena could see that everything had a value and potential. This ‘waste nothing’ mindset shaped her engineering...