Dinamo Emerging Technology

Fiber optics and brain waves tell the airline a nice drink, a good movie, and a snooze make people feel good.

How Bell Telephone lost a half billion, but nearly created the internet in 1964.

Pepper promises a lot. SoftBank’s ambitious android, announced earlier in the month, is touted as the world’s first robot that can understand emotions. 

The creative agency's new NY office is designed to foster interaction and collaboration without distraction.

On Monday, the internet was all kinds of excited over the fact that hundreds of new emoji were soon to arrive. Now, the Unicode Consortium has published a chart which shows us what they'll actually look like.

For as long as I can remember, I've had too much to read, and too little time to do so. With the rise of the internet, I'm now at a point where fantastic content is being published on a daily basis, and I'm fighting to not miss a thing. That's why Pocket, Instapaper, and every other "read-it-later" service exists; to let you read what you want, at your own pace. But what if you don't want to read a giant feature on Eboy on an electronic screen? 

Ambitious start-ups like Coin want to replace the plastic credit and debit cards that take up space in your wallet. But what if they did away with your wallet altogether? 

Crowds of protesters could soon come under attack from riot control drones outfitted with paintball guns, strobe lights, and speakers. 

Razmetkus is a system with interactive pavement and sensors that track the position of all the road's users.

Technology has added plenty of new annoyances to life, but it's also done away with countless others. One more that could be on its way out? A visit to the doctor's office. That's the vision of a company called Cue, which wants to make at-home medical diagnosis — everything from the flu to vitamin D levels — as common as pregnancy tests.

This project uses that everyday mishap as inspiration for an everyday task. Paper Cut Razor takes a seemingly outrageous idea and makes it real. It’s a disposable razor made entirely out of paper. It’s a fictional product that playfully challenges two notions: that paper cuts are inherently evil, and that current disposable razors are truly disposable. 

Now here's a room with many views. At Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park in Scotland, you might come across this mirrored lookout blending into the landscape. The walls of mirrors are both framing device and invisibility cloak, reflecting an utterly unique view of the surrounding loch and trees.

Your employee engagement level is simply a yardstick for how emotionally motivated, committed, and connected people are to their work.

The Modillian: Makes you watch smart.

It's certainly not a new argument, but novelist and professor Tim Parks makes a compelling case in an essay for The New York Review of Books that the days of great novels are behind us. 

On Wednesday, Berlin’s The Factory opened (more on the opening) its 16,000 square-meter startup office. While all the other startups (such as 6Wunderkinder, Mozilla, Zendesk, and others) are still waiting to finally move into Berlin’s new startup space, SoundCloud’s office is the only one that is ready.