This glove turns your hand into a music instrument
Two Turin-based young engineers invented Remidi T8, a glove that let you create music by touching whichever surface with your hands.
The Miles Davis biopic is finally here
Miles Ahead, a biopic inspired in the last and troubled stage of life of the legendary jazz musician Miles Davis, will be released in April.
Here come the bike lights that can be connected to your smartphone
Revolights Eclipse+ is a bicycle light system formed by LEDs that is mounted to the wheels. It signals turns and when you’re braking and it collects information via a smartphone app.
Sherlock, the hi-tech antitheft device for bikes
A young start-up company based in Turin created a GPS antitheft device for bicycles that can be monitored via smartphone. Sherlock is the only Italian project presented at the British Parliament.
Pearl Jam are in the frontline to bring drinking water to the citizens of Flint
Pearl Jam launched a crowdfunding campaign to help the city of Flint, Michigan, overcome the serious water crisis.
Riding a bike to stop wars during the Olympic Games: here’s Bike4Truce’s project
Give me a bike and I’ll bring peace to the world. This could be a slogan for the initiative Bike4Truce started by OLOS Foundation, that has been committing itself for years to reach a truce and stop wars during the Olympic Games. The Olympic truce should be declared through a resolution adopted by the UN
Bibliobicicleta, San Francisco’s travelling trade library
A bicycle-powered community library in the streets of San Francisco to promote the passion for literature and willingness to learn and know. “Page by page, book by book, pedal by pedal” is the motto of the non-profit project Bibliobicicleta that started through successful fund-raising on Kickstarter. Thanks to the support of 117 donours, 2200 dollars were
Voglio una ruota, women who choose bicycles instead of roses
Could a seemingly innocuous object like a bicycle contribute to triggering a revolution? This is the question that the website of the documentary Voglio una ruota (I want a wheel) is asking itself, because the invention of bicycles, besides facilitating the right to mobility, encouraged women’s emancipation between the nineteenth and twentieth century. Voglio una ruota is
The clay speakers reproducing “the sound of the earth”
Chile is a country whose traditions and cultural identities are commended through the works of skilled artisans that hand down their own working techniques from one generation to another. Chilean design encloses this, being still far from well-known brands and industrial factories. The designer Pablo Ocqueteau has realised handmade clay speakers that combine ancestral ceramic techniques with
Refugees Welcome is the Airbnb for refugees. And Europe opens its homes
It’s been called the “Airbnb for refugees”. Refugees Welcome, Flüchtlinge Willkommen in the original German, is a non-profit website that connects refugees to people offering spare rooms. It has been active in Germany since November 2014 and in Austria since January 2015, helping around 140 refugees from 21 different countries find places to stay.