In the biggest garbage dump in West Africa, in Ghana, a makerspace is being set up where one is beginning to imagine projects to improve the life conditions of the families living there and to create added value from rubbish.
The Democracy Fund, Knight Foundation and Rita Allen Foundation teamed up to launch a joint fund to support fresh and creative ideas to counter the spread of misinformation and build trust in quality journalism in the United States.
This March 14, one particularly numerically oriented artist duo decided to celebrate π Day (3/14) by launching an... unlimited edition artwork.
On one side, Handle by Boston Dynamics, a military-grade equine robot that rolls, jumps and spins; on the other, Spider, an excavator commissioned to crush and remove nuclear debris in Fukushima.
70 mini fablabs are set to be built in the next 9 months with the support of the Indian government in Kerala, South India.
Imagine a “DIY and inventive destruction” in animation from a 3D model: “White Noise” magazine calls for a project around the BBC East Tower, which will be soon destroyed for real.
Space10, supported by Ikea, released files under an open licence of the Growroom, a DIY urban garden kit. A new strategy for the Swedish company?
Tokyo 2020 organizing committee invites all residents of Japan to donate their obsolete electronic devices to manufacture 100% of the Olympic medals.
According to a study published by four major universities, resorting to 3D printing in PLA would allow the textile industry to be more respectful of the environment.
Europe is pondering robots. On January 12, members of the Committee on Legal Affairs met to discuss regulations for robotics to be adopted by the European Union.
103 Perdix mini drones swarmed in the sky thanks to collective artificial intelligence, announced the secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense on January 9.
For Erasmus+, EU finances a €984,865 program to promote exchange between industry players, universities and maker communities to develop open fabrication and design.
Clarius Mobile Health is authorized to commercialize its wireless ultrasound-stethoscope in the United States.
Exactly one hundred years after his death in 1916, Japan’s most famous Meiji-era author, Natsume Soseki, was both commemorated and revived at a Tokyo University in the form of an android.
Open Gov Summit: French organizations promoting civil and digital liberties criticize France's flawed expression of open democracy.
Agricool recycles containers into organic strawberry tanks in town. And it works: the start-up has just raised €4 million.
Designer Isis Shiffer won the James Dyson Award for her EcoHelmet, a paper folding helmet designed with a honeycomb structure giving its strength.
Sprint session of ironic prototyping at the first French stupid hackathon organized by the Stereolux Arts and Technologies Laboratory in Nantes on October 29.
To reconstitute his lost memories, Colombian artist Fito Segrera created an installation that tinkers with your memories using an Open BCI (brain-computer interface) headset.
French committed citizens create a solidarity app for the roofless, “Besoin d’un toi”. Activation this month.
