Highways 63 and 881 in Albertas (USA) have been the scene of hundreds of injuries and dozens of fatalities in recent years.
To prevent other tragedies, this interactive data visualisation allow people to know better those dangerous roads and where accidents have happen and lives have been taken.
Smart and efficient.
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“At Honda, our engines don’t just move people and cargo. They move society and history, too. They are engines of change in a very real sense.”
This is the philosophy the japanese brand wants to deploy at a global level through this astonishing website. Inventing a new and terribly specific way to talk about engines to a wide audience.
It is not possible to discover this website without thinking of this (old) TV advert supported by a brilliant and breathrough strategy about love and hate.
Discover the website http://hondabeautifulengines.com/
While Facebook has been spending Billions to capture and claim the limelight around a Virtual Reality based future, and Google turning off production of Google Glass…
Microsoft has been the one building the future, with HoloLens. It’s like a mini-computer for your eyes, in quite a good looking piece of hardware.
As holograms, digital content will be as real as physical objects in the room. For the first time, holograms will become practical tools of daily life, says Microsoft.
Surprise! You are going to look more and more silly on social media.
When you do surprised face, open your eyes wide, combine that with a half-open, smiling mouth. Just pretend someone told you a really juicy secret about you boss. Are you shocked, but also immensely entertained? Exactly.
Ultimate benefit of the Faux surprise face: you seem like you’re constantly being followed by paparazzi — even though you have no idea how they got so close to your face — but still want to give them a cute, sultry photo. Of course, the paparazzo is just you.
(source Mashable)
The growing consumer interest in connected intelligent devices and environmentally friendly electric cars has driven the offer of partially autonomous and fully self-driving vehicles by the leading and startup car manufacturers alike.
The two recent tech events in the U.S.— CES in Las Vegas and Auto Show in Detroit—have demonstrated plenty of breakthrough innovative products and concepts, including the ones from Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Ford, Toyota, BMW, and Volkswagen.
To make some forecast on the innovative car market, the management consultancy BCG conducted an in-depth analysis of the current trends, available figures and industry publications; surveyed 1,500 U.S. drivers; as well as interviewed executives of some leading car making companies.
The study revealed that around 55% of the respondents would like to buy a fully autonomous car within 5 years, while about 44% would consider to do so within a 10-year time. About 20% are even ready to pay extra $5,000 for such features as highway and urban autopilot. What attracts potential customers of these innovative vehicles is that they are, of course, self-driving, require lower insurance and fuel costs, and overall safer.
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With the M4 concept, BMW decided to showcase of how the future lights would look on a typical BMW vehicle. The laser lights themselves starts blue in color, but a phosphor plate inside the light converts it to a bright white light that mimics daylight. The beams are ten times as powerful as any other light source like xenon or LED, and has a projection range of 600 meters.
Dynamic actuators control the Selective Beam system, which spots oncoming traffic with a set of cameras and prevents the headlights from dazzling oncoming vehicles.
Audi partnered with LG to create its own smartwatch.Tied directly to Audi’s piloted driving A7 prototype, the wearable allows the driver to communicate with the car.
One of the device’s functions will be to unlock the car. However, it remains unclear whether that wearable device communication will include things such as controlling the vehicle’s engine, windows, temperature and the like.
In any case, this partnership and niew device is part of Audi’s plans to aid the race to make self-driving cars the norm.
Ford is showcasing two research projects at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for the MyEnergi Lifestyle program. This green living tech will help consumers use energy more efficiently at home.
Ford and Nest are collaborating on an app that helps users manage energy costs and usage. The app will switch to “Away Mode” when a user leaves the home, and will set the house temperature when the vehicle is approaching home again.
Ford reveals also an the Green Energy App that will track when renewable energy sources like wind and solar are most active on the grid to help users schedule charging during these periods.
The MyEnergi Lifestyle program is a program gathering different companies and brands to better and optimize energy consumption in the US. Discorver it there
Mercedes-Benz revealed its concept for the self-driving car of the future at the Consumer Electronic Show Las Vegas: A bizarre looking “cocoon” intended to be a “mobile living-space”.
The F 015 Luxury in Motion research vehicle is offering a vision of autonomous driving in the future. The luxury saloon with total connectivity gives a preview of how the self-driving car of the future could become a platform for communication and interaction.
You are up to 4 friends, neighbours or colleagues? Audi Unite allows you to buy and also share access to the Audi car you want. Audi Unite is a collaborative car initiative that refashions mobility as a personalized micro-sharing experience, available in Stockholm (Sweden).
Audi takes care of everything: the total cost of the car usage comes in one monthly invoice for each co-owner. The invoice includes insurance, maintenance, cleaning and tyres changes as well as the personalized portion of fuel, car liquids, cleaning costs and congestion tax.
It is a service, it is a platform, it is an app. It is a breakthrough innovation.
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