Minnesota’s Never-Built $10 Billion “City of the Future”

Distraught with the urban mess cities had become, Athelstan Spilhaus (creator of the comic “Our New Age,”) proposed a $10 billion utopian urban plan to be built in rural Minnesota back in 1967. Unfortunately, it would never come to fruition, but The Minnesota Experimental City and Spilhaus have become the subject of a new documentary, “The Experimental City,” directed by Chad Freidrichs. As the Smithsonian …

Another Self-Driving Car: Jaguar’s I-PACE

Joining forces, Waymo and Jaguar Land Rover have announced they’re going to design and build “the world’s first premium electric fully self-driving vehicle” called the I-PACE. Planning to add some 20,000 I-PACEs to the fleet over the next few years, the partnership’s aim is to make transport more accessible for everybody—focusing on passengers—and also creating safer roads. Further, by focusing on passengers’ different needs, the …

Speakers May Disappear From Cars Next

With sound technology forever in development, systems in automobiles undergo major changes from time to time (bye bye, tape decks). Thanks to advancements from German auto-component supplier Continental, speakers might be the next to go. This is because the company has developed technology that turns the entire car into a sound system. The rear window becomes a subwoofer; the windshield, floor and seat frames deliver …