Sonos Play:5 Redesigned and Reengineered

The latest wireless HiFi speaker and music streaming system keeps getting better

Today Sonos, the wireless HiFi company, announced two significant releases: The new Play:5 speaker and Trueplay, a feature in the Sonos app that easily helps most Sonos speakers sound the best it can in whatever environment you’ve placed it in. We sat down with two of the people that brought them to life, Tad Toulis, Sonos’s Vice President of Design, and Giles Martin, their Sound …

Bizarre Mars Housing Concepts

Mars is looking more inhabitable than ever—as NASA announced the discovery of liquid water on its surface—so it’s only a matter of time until we finally touch down on the Red Planet. And when we do, we’ll have no shortage of housing options thanks to a handful of architects and designers who submitted proposals to NASA’s 3D Printed Habitat Challenge. The competition called for “state-of-the-art …

NASA Discovers Liquid Water on Mars

Today, NASA announced that a new analysis of images taken from their Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter strongly confirms their hypothesis that liquid water exists on the Martian surface—at least seasonally. The cold, desolate planet has previously been known to house water, but only in the form of frozen slabs beneath its surface, making this an exciting discovery. While the presence of liquid water increases the chances …