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Japan to test fingerprint payment
Neither cash, nor cards, nor contactless payment with the mobile. Tourists going to Japan this summer will be able to purchase products and services using only their fingerprints. This is the pilot test that the Japanese government is going to launch, according to The Japan Times, with the idea of facilitating tourism by making it…
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Video: The design of the everyday
Don Norman suggested that if the use of something everyday is so complicated as to require instructions, it is not designed correctly. This Vox Magazine video explains it.
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Developing solutions to store renewable energy
A few days ago we talked about how a study in Frankfurt School pointed out the need to adapt the electricity grid to renewable energy sources: the variability in production makes it necessary to develop solutions to store excess energy generated and to be able to provide energy when the wind does not blow or…
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The threat of climate change on the world economy
Climate change could wipe out €2.18 trillion worth of financial assets. This is the estimate of the study carried out by professors from the London School of Economics whose results have been published in the journal Nature. In the worst scenario contemplated by the model, the loss would skyrocket to 21 trillion euros, which is…
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Public space loses weight in expanding cities
Public spaces have less and less weight in cities that are expanding, according to the UN Habitat agency alerted in its Thematic Meeting on Public Spaces, which took place this week at the University of Barcelona, as reported by The Country. Something worrying, considering that it is estimated that in 2050 the urban population will…
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Video: Parking vs. well-being in the city
Giving priority to cars and creating parking lots has created a hostile environment for pedestrians in the city, as this video from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy produced by Streetfilms shows.
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The need to adapt the energy system to renewables
The report Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016, published on March 24 by the United Nations Environment Programme, revealed that in 2015, for the first time, investment in renewables was higher in developing countries than in developed countries . This is partly explained by the huge investment in China, where one third of the…
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The great start of Tesla Model 3
< /h3> Tesla, the leading Silicon Valley electric automotive company, unveiled its latest Tesla Model 3 electric car for the first time on Thursday March 31. It is the most anticipated and important model of the company; Until now, Tesla models had been aimed at wealthy customers looking for luxury, but with Model 3 they…
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Virtual reality, in our day to day
We have been hearing about virtual reality as something that will be in our daily lives for a long time, and it seemed like one of those inventions that was never really going to reach our hands. But everything points to the fact that technological development has reached the necessary maturity so that the leap…
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Rethinking New York as a green and pedestrian city
The Big Apple has carried out outstanding projects to become a city friendlier for urban pedestrians and cyclists, and ecologically more sustainable. In recent years, a disused Manhattan elevated rail line has been transformed into the 1.5-mile-long High Lane Greenway (see photo above), Times Square has been closed to cars, or more than 600 miles…