Dinamo Emerging Technology

Dinamo Emerging Technology. Carefully curated content; from what is comfortable and known to stuff on the fringes of the unknown. People, technology, cuture, art, communication, history and business. This is our inspiration. This is Dinamo Emerging Technology by Dinamo Business & Service Design. If you are too busy to check in here everyday you can sign up for our newsletter "In Your Pocket". It aims to give you the latest - and best. Left photo: Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus Movement, poses on the roof of the Dessau Bauhaus building with other teaching staff in 1926.

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British Airways Made A Blanket That Measures Passengers' Moods

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

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

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I met an emotional robot and felt nothing

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. 

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Wieden & Kennedy HQ Does Away With The "Office As Playground" In Favor Of Useful Workspaces

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

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Here's What All Those New Emoji Actually Look Like

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.

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Read the internet like a newspaper with PaperLater

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? 

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Track your cash like calories with this new smart wristband concept

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? 

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This drone shoots crowds with pepper spray and paintballs

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

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Audi Robotic Telepresence: The future of technical support.

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Highways Reimagined As Interactive Displays That Track Drivers

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

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Spit here: can Cue's $199 lab-in-a-box keep you healthy?

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.

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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. 

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This Lookout Made of Mirrors Can Hide In Plain Sight

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.

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Why Your Company Needs To Measure Employee Engagement

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

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Not smart watches, but smart accessories for your regual watch.

The Glance: World's first smart accessory for your watch.

The Modillian: Makes you watch smart.

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Is the great novel dead?

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. 

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SoundCloud's new office in Berlin puts yours to shame

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.