Zapland
Wie ist es eigentlich möglich Kindern ein Gefühl für so komplexe und auch oft für Erwachsene schwer verständliche Themen, wie Energie und Nachhaltigkeit zu geben? Mit ihrem Zapland Projekt sind die...
View ArticleSolePower
SolePower ist eine Technologie die menschliche Energie aufnimmt um sie dann in Elektrizität zu transformieren. Dadurch ermöglicht es SolePower jene Energie nutzbar zu machen die wir ohnehin jeden Tag...
View ArticleAir Project
Wie würde eigentlich eine Welt aussehen in der Luft eine knappe Ressource geworden ist? Die Künstler hinter dem Air Project haben sich genau über diese Frage Gedanken gemacht und eröffnen mit ihrer...
View ArticleBlindMaps: Stadt-Navigation für sehbehinderte Menschen
Im Interview verrät uns Markus Schmeiduch, Gewinner der Kategorie [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant des Prix Ars Electronica 2014, wie es zu dem Projekt BlindMaps gekommen ist und...
View ArticleEine offene Initiative für unabhängige Mobilität
Nach der Residency im Ars Electronica Futurelab hat sich das Konzept von BlindMaps, dem diesjährigen Gewinner des [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grants, um 180° Grad gedreht. Die...
View ArticleKeyglove
Like the Mobile Lorm Glove, the Keyglove is another smart glove based solution to enhance ways of communication, but in a slightly different context.
View ArticleAnd the Winner is: Hyperform!
Congratulations to Marcelo Coelho and Skylar Tibbits from Fromlabs! With their project Hyperform they´ve won this years [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant! You can find a detailed...
View ArticleThe honorary mention goes to: Gravity Light
Generate light and energy through the force of gravitation! This idea convinced the [next idea] jury and the project GravityLight got awarded a honorary mention. We congratulate and dedicate this blog...
View ArticleThe Tokens
The young dutch designer Marco van Beers quite intensively investigated the field of illness and communication, and approaches this complex field from a socio – technological perspective. One output is...
View ArticleCookease – Intelligent Cooking System
The Cookease system is a solution for our growing desires for healthy convenient food. The Cookease system is an intelligent and sophisticated system - rather than just measuring the time required to...
View ArticleZapland
How is it actually possible to teach Kids about complex and often even for adults hard to understand topics such as energy and sustainability? With their Zapland project the developers from Kitchen...
View ArticleMinsky
Understand the economy as dynamic model and forsee the economy crisis at the same time? If you think that sounds to good to be true, have a look at Professor Steve Keen´s project, who is working on...
View ArticleSolePower
SolePower employs the piezoelectric effect to generate electricity from the human kinetic energy. By capturing accessible human energy and transforming it into electricity, SolePower enables us to...
View ArticleNanoLeaf
The at the moment most efficient light bulb in the world was unfortunately too far developed, to receive the [next idea] grant. But as it is an extraordinarily product, we still want to dedicate one...
View ArticleAir Project
How would a world look like in which air has become a scarce resource? The artists behind the Air Project have thought about this question and created an interesting installations that opens a new...
View ArticleOpen High Resolution Stereolithography, For Everyone
Stereolithography has been around for years. The art of taking uncured liquid resin and pulling out solid objects, while amazing, is not itself a new technology. In fact, its origin dates back to the...
View ArticleAfsnit I – Innovation Competition
From all over Europe Afsnit I invites creative entrepreneurs, social innovators, artists and inventors who are passionate about an idea and want to share it with the rest of the world. So in case you...
View ArticleHORTUS
Terms like urban farming or urban gardening have been around already for a while. The artists from Ecologicstudio take up these trends, but transform them radically, and go beyond the known practices...
View ArticleExciting, Inspiring Ideas
A grant designed to foster the development of innovative ideas with great future promise—the competition to select this year’s recipient of „[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant“ is one...
View ArticleHas technology become too intrusive?
As a juror in search of [the next idea], futurist Alexander Mankowsky is right on his home turf. What he’s been particularly struck by are artistic reflections on and social criticism of how we deal...
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