Lightweight Unit One gives shipping containers the high-tech treatment

It's easy to think of shipping containers as simple metal boxes, that can't be improved. The Unit One container, however, is claimed to be lighter, stronger and more energy-efficient than others, plus it uses multiple sensors to monitor its cargo.

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Sustainable sand dune and holey roof feature in 2022 architecture awards

The Architecture MasterPrize offers a superb opportunity to check out a wide range of projects. Its 2022 winners include a sand dune-shaped office, a music museum topped by an unusual roof, and a former power station turned into a global HQ.

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Hyundai goes off-grid glamping with hotel experience powered by EVs

As well as offering a clean and quiet way to get from A to B, some electric vehicles can also power tools or equipment. Hyundai is demonstrating such vehicle-to-load abilities by opening an off-grid glamping experience powered by Ioniq 5 crossovers.

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Campod pioneers a fiberglass camper wagon for the new frontier

The new Campod trailer looks much like a Romani caravan or American covered wagon, only modernized with a lightweight fiberglass shell. The classic shape opens up over 6 feet of standing room and a picture window panorama to pull the outdoors in.

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How a smartphone could predict your risk of dying within 5 years

Your smartphone likely vibrates multiple times a day with a variety of different notifications but in the future there may be a new kind of message coming from your smartphone, a message from an app predicting your risk of death over the coming years.

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MIT’s cMaSK tech will tell you if your face mask fits properly

While it's still important to wear a face mask in many situations, that mask won't be fully effective if it doesn't fit properly. That's why a team at MIT has designed a device to assess how well a mask fits an individual user, quickly and easily.

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Baluchon squeezes full-time home and office into tiny 20-ft-long frame

Baluchon's latest tiny house measures just 6 m in length. However, despite its compact size, the Milanda packs everything necessary to serve as a comfortable full-time residence to its owner in northern France – including a well-lit home office.

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Stepped housing will absorb CO2 with large number of trees and shrubs

Stefano Boeri Architetti has done more than most to help popularize the current trend of covering buildings with trees. Its latest project is greenery covered housing that boasts sustainability features and will absorb significant amounts of CO2.

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Orbitkey’s quick-release keyring aims to save your fingernails

Since taking its first product to Kickstarter eight years ago, Australian startup Orbitkey hasn’t been afraid to float some fresh ideas around how we carry our keys, and its latest offering continues on with this theme.

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Inov-8’s new graphene trail running shoe literally nitro-boosts feet

For a few years now, Inov-8 has been focusing in on graphene for its trail running shoes. Now it mixes a little nitrogen into the formula. The nitrogen-injected foam adds a light, soft ride and a response so reactive it almost feels like cheating.

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