If you’ve used Google Maps for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed an occasional quirk: unless you’re using the satellite view, the colors of the maps don’t necessarily reflect the natural features of the real world. Sure, streets and corners will be where they are supposed to be, but ‘green’ areas marked as parks …
Artist Simon Weckert claims he managed to trick Google Maps into displaying fake traffic jams by hauling 99 smartphones around in a cart.
Google Maps diverts road users after mistaking cartload of phones for huge traffic cluster
Google Maps incorporates data from smartphones to estimate traffic in any given location. Artist Simon Weckert used this tidbit to throw the statistical models off the scent. With a wagon of 99 sma…
Taschen’s new publication Web Design: The Evolution of the Digital World 1990 – Today – written by Rob Ford, founder of FWA, and edited by Julius Wiedemann – goes on a visual journey to the very earliest examples of the web.
If you spend hours a day staring at your phone screen for social media, games and reading, a new no-frills device could help nudge you back to the real world
called weWALK, the smart cane is equipped with built-in speakers, smartphone integration, and sensors that send vibrations to warn users of obstacles.
Google is introducing several new privacy features for its products, including an Incognito mode for Google Maps on Android and iOS.
Think of it as Material Design for data visualization.
Colour is creeping over our cities, thanks both to an explosion in street art but also designers and architects’ subsequent confidence in splashing rainbow-hued graphic treatments over their walls. But the line between street art, fine art and architecture is increasingly blurring as artists are invited to weave their own distinctive works into the fabric of buildings.
People had to get by without the search engine giant before it was launched in 1998. But is it possible to live your life – and do your job – without it these days?
An unusual new competition aims to develop “odd lots” into affordable housing.
Google released its AR maps in January in alpha version. But now it's rolling out to more cities in India to selected users.
London-based designer Keiichi Matsuda imagines how augmented reality will define the workstation of the future in short film Merger
TasteAtlas is an online compendium and search engine for good food, authentic recipes and quality restaurants.
Google Earth has opted for a 3D view since it's inception, but now Google Maps is joining the more accurate route of exploring our planet.
Google’s done more than almost any other company to bring virtual reality to the masses, from making cheap Cardboard headsets to giving the public easy ways to create and share 360-degree photos. Now the company is giving VR fans another way to dive in with a new tool called Tour Creator.
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