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The Internet of Things will be without batteries or it will not be
The promise of the Internet of Things depends on future developments, and some of the most important will be seen in the field of energy. The enormous multitude of sensors and connected objects that will continuously communicate with each other will need to have energy autonomy, and not depend on battery recharges at all times….
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The revolution of the Sicilian countryside
Sicily’s farmers are re-growing the “ancient grains”, the local cereal seeds, using traditional methods and the island’s ancient agricultural wisdom. With this, according to the newspaper La Repubblica, They are once again rebuilding the landscape and recovering the biodiversity of the Sicilian countryside, in the face of the monoculture techniques of multinationals, which seek uniformity…
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EGA Master, innovation award
EGA Master from Alava has become the first hand tool manufacturing company to obtained the Innovative SME seal from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The family business, installed in the Jundiz industrial estate in Vitoria-Gasteiz, provides services to world leaders in sectors such as the automotive, aeronautical and oil sectors, exporting more than 90%…
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The first ‘superblock’ in Barcelona
The plan for “superblocks” in Barcelona, with which the aim is to transform the mobility of the Catalan capital and return up to 70% of the street space to pedestrians, will be launched next Monday, September 5 with its first pilot experience, as reported by La Vanguardia. The first superblock, which will be inaugurated in…
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The Nobel Prize in Economics defends universal basic income
The idea that all citizens have access to a universal basic income, or the right to a minimum guarantee of income, are increasingly present in the global public debate, and in some parts of the planet universal basic income is beginning to be glimpsed as a real possibility, becoming part of the debate. Finland plans…
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The American Downtown reemerges as a walkable space
The American dream has been synonymous for decades with large family houses with gardens and two garages, perfectly aligned in their “suburbs” or peripheral urbanizations, a model that entails dependence on the car as the only means of transportation. However, urban sprawl seems to be in the doldrums. According to a study by Smart Growth…
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WeChat, the app for everything
WeChat is often presented as the Chinese WhatsApp, but in reality it is much more than that. In addition to instant messaging, WeChat centralizes the functions of many other apps, something that we in the West are still unaware of. The Chinese spend more than a third of their time online on this platform that…
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Video: From motorway to cycle path
In Auckland (New Zealand), a motorway exit in the center of the city, which had been in disuse for ten years due to the construction of a new road, has been transformed into a cycle path.
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Today we have exhausted the annual budget of nature
Today, August 8th, is Overshoot Day of the year 2016, the date on which humanity has consumed the equivalent to all the resources that the Earth can renew in a period of 12 months. This is stated in a report by the NGO Global Footprint Network: the remaining five months of this year, we will…
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The growing impact of the sharing economy
The sharing economy, with BlaBlaCar, Uber, or AirBnb as its leading exponents, will have a global combined turnover of around 300,000 million euros in 2025, according to a report by the OBS Business School based on data from the consulting firm PwC echoed by The Economist. The report, which puts the number of platforms in…