In the next nature, many people spend as much time in the digital world of gaming as they do in the real world. We have covered video games before, but this year we thought it could be fun to list some of our favorites. These are the games that in 2017 have been transporting us into the future, blurring the line between virtual and real, and giving us access to new hybrid experiences.
Los Angeles is covering the blacktop asphalt of its streets with a more reflective “cool pavement” white treatment to reduce the urban warming heat island effect. What’s that? Are there island in Los Angeles? No no, the urban heat island effect means that the temperature in cities are higher than in the surrounding rural areas.
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The phone call was as unexpected as the American accent at the other end of the line. And when she hung up a few moments later, Ira van Eelen had to stop to catch her breath.
More than two years had passed since the 53-year-old Dutch woman had spoken that in depth to anyone about her father’s work. She’d more or less given up on the possibility that her father’s idea—more than an idea, a lifelong passion into which Ira had been drafted into pursuing over the course of decades of obsession—would ever become a reality. Now, caught by surprise at the tail end of summer, she was being asked to rethink everything.
As air traffic security you make sure that birds stay away from the airport using your eagle drone. With an accessory console, you fly the quadcopter from the sideline to scare birds and push them away from the engine of the planes. Thanks to your work, both the birds and the passengers will always be able to take off and land safely.
Cigarette butts are the most littered item on the planet. In any city, these tenacious plastic filters can be found everywhere, and can take up to a decade to decompose. But now, two Dutch designers have come up with a unique solution to the problem: they want to train crows to tidy up the filters for us.
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