Members of the Bombardier family have been coming up with crazy transportation ideas for 80 years, usually pesky things the Ski-doo and the Sea-doo. Now Charles Bombardier, described in Wired as a visionary “at his best when he ignores pesky things like budgets, timelines, and contemporary physics”, tells us that architects, planners and developers should get ready for the drone revolution.Dr...

Carmakers continue to look to the Valley for help paving the way for the future of cars – Ford has teamed up with Baidu to jointly invest $150 million in Velodyne, a company making LiDAR sensors in California’s technology hotspot. The money will help Velodyne quickly ramp up efforts to make its LiDAR sensors at scale while retaining and increasing quality, which will help carmakers build auto...

While making and selling wine has traditionally been a very analog business, ONEHOPE Wine is on the path to break that mould, one bottle at a time. Founded in 2007 in collaboration with noted winemaker Rob Mondavi Jr., ONEHOPE aims to provide wine lovers with more than a bottle of award-winning wine—it offers consumers the opportunity to take part in a movement for social good with every purch...

The nanostructured device uses visible light to kill bacteria within just 20 minutes. If you're trying to kill bacteria in tainted water, one of the best ways is simply to leave that water in a clear bottle in direct sunlight, letting the ultraviolet rays do the work. That said, this method can take six to 48 hours to be fully effective. Instead, scientists at the US Department of Energy's SLAC...

The floating homes have been designed to offer residents privacy, comfort and a connection to nature. There may be a time in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that floating homes become passé, but that time doesn't appear to be now. Following the Floating Seahorse and the Waterlovt, New Living on Water is the latest outfit to offer a luxury waterborne residence.Its take on the idea is said to hav...

Predicting the future can be a fool’s errand. Need proof? Just look at our previous post showing a timeline of failed tech predictions by some of the biggest names in business, academia, and technology over the last two centuries.Experts not only get it wrong – they get it embarrassingly wrong.The Earth 100 Years in the FutureSo why predict the future? Because it’s fun and it helps us critic...

Vroom is debuting an online showroom in Phoenix. Buying a car isn't easy. It's a hassle to spend hours upon hours searching massive lots, and it's time-consuming to pore over pages upon pages of reviews. And, after finally deciding which of the dozens of cars to buy, it's especially hard to pay for one. Now, imagine doing all of that in virtual reality—minus the paying part.Online used car sel...

Last month, the $1 billion acquisition of Dollar Shave Club by CPG giant Unilever prompted headlines like “Who’s Next?” and brought increased investor attention to the burgeoning opportunities in early-stage consumer startups. As millennials mature and reach peak purchasing power of $200 billion, consumer demands are shifting in line with the generation’s values-oriented spending philosophy...

So long, itchy, uncomfortable plaster.Every year, some six million people in the United States break a bone, and many of these injuries are cloaked with a heavy sheath of fiberglass or plaster while they heal—a treatment that’s been the same for generations.But casts are finally getting a modern spin. 3-D-printed casts boast an open-lattice plastic design that’s customized to the individual...