Emar Vegt composes the click of a BMW's door and tunes its engine as if it were a song Wired, March 2013 Not everybody wonders what a BMW sounds like. But it's a question that occupies Emar Vegt, an aural designer at the company's head office in Munich, where he designs the sounds that
Jay Bregman has launched his cab-hailing startup Hailo in nine cities -- and the app is driving revenues Wired, February 2013 If you've ever tried to hail a taxi in a big city, you'll probably be familiar with the system of hopeful kerbside gesticulation -- and its typically low success rate. It's this urban
Can Silicon Valley solve Africa's water problem? Scott Harrison is on a mission to try Wired, January 2013 Scott Harrison, the founder and president of charity:water, has stolen away from an official reception for a new water project his organisation has funded in Kisaro in northern Rwanda. As happens almost everywhere
We know more about space than we do about the ocean. That is about to change Four Seasons Magazine, January 2013 On March 26 last year, about 320 kilometres southwest of Guam in the western Pacific, James Cameron, filmmaker, entrepreneur and now deep-sea diver, squeezed into the pilot sphere of the Deepsea Challenger—a US$8
'Maths is cool,' says Vi Hart, 'but it's taught all wrong' Wired, October 2012 Anyone logging on to Vi Hart's blog of quirky maths-related videos must feel they are far away from long, dull afternoons of trigonometry. "Maths is just cool," says the 24-year-old "mathemusician", a
Korean artist Song Hojun is on a one-man mission to enter the space race Wired, June 2012 On 31 August, Korean artist Song Hojun plans to launch a tiny satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The 10cm3 shiny metal cube has as its payload four bright white LEDs
The high-paying jobs will be the ones robots can't do Wired, March 2012 You have probably by now read Race Against The Machine by MIT researchers Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. Their vision -- that, in the near future, computers will have taken over most of our jobs
Meet 12-year-old app developer Puck Meerburg Wired, February 2012 Twelve-year-old Puck Meerburg (above) from Delft, Holland, is an app developer. Since 2010 he has published seven apps for the iPhone and iPad, including a guide for the Netherlands' oldest museum, the Teylers in Haarlem. "My dad had got an
Israel's GeekCon is the irreverent tech meetup that emphasises fun and games. Wired went to join in Wired, December 2011 In 2004, three Israeli technology entrepreneurs -- Ilan Graicer, then 36, Eden Shochat, 27, and Nimrod Lehavi, 29 -- left the country's annual tech conference, Kinnernet, and decided they couldn't wait 12 months
Israel's technology exports hit $28.5 billion in 2010. Here is the next wave of businesses to watch Wired, September 2011 At the eastern edge of the Mediterranean, stretching 180 kilometres from Haifa in the north to the outskirts of Jerusalem, runs Israel's "Silicon Wadi". Centred on Tel Aviv, the strip has produced so
