FutureEverything’s Top Five Projects

Annual innovation lab and digital culture festival, FutureEverything, will celebrate its 20th anniversary this month. Leading up to this year’s event, FutureEverything’s director Drew Hemmet looks back at five of the festival’s most groundbreaking installments and inventions—including creepy surveillance through hacked mobile phones, a digital scavenger hunt to meet “Uncle Roy,” and the worldwide launch of the interactive audiovisual device TENORI-ON.

Angel Haze: Candlxs

Angel Haze is known for staying true to herself and her brutal honesty—whether it’s rapping about being sexually abused in her rendition of Eminem’s “Cleaning Out My Closet” to openly expressing her frustration with her record label. (She ended up leaking her album Dirty Gold in response). Haze’s newest song, “Candlxs,” is a “incredibly personal” ballad (supposedly inspired by her relationship with Ireland Baldwin) and …

Microchip Implants for Employees

In Sweden, a company is implanting RFID microchips into its employees. The chips—much like the ones embedded into pet dogs—are about the size of a rice grain and are placed just beneath skin between the thumb and index finger. The new program is meant to give employees a more intuitive interaction with functions like unlocking doors, using the photocopier and, in the future, buying food …