Packaging is ubiquitous. It touches almost every person on the planet. It affects things that human beings need to survive: food, healthcare, personal care. All of that is packaged. Today, none of that has a lot of intelligence.

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Messenger services such as WhatsApp and Threema have created ways for families to keep in touch, even across long distances. But the way different generations use these services to communicate can create funny – or infuriating – results.

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Music festivals have become an increasingly large slice of the music industry. But having to essentially create mini-cities for the influx of people looking to dance, drink, eat and shop, also leaves a bad ecological footprint. This however doesn’t have to be the case moving forward. Here’s what three organisers are doing to clean up the usually dirty festival business.

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At the inaugural Maxis Business Spark Summit 2019 conference, Mike Walsh a futurist, spoke during his keynote on how business leaders need to be an algorithmic leader. It’s not about millennials anymore, it’s about the 8 year olds that will be running the world.

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You reached your goal! It’s time to celebrate, call up some friends, and go out on the town. Except that rarely happens. What happens most often is . . . nothing at all. It might sound counterintuitive, but achieving a goal is not always the great thing it’s cracked up to be.

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The hotel “apologizes for any uneasiness caused.”

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If pinching your phone is something you've always wanted to do, well... you can now. A new high-tech phone case could make that very specific desire possible. Marc Teyssier at Telecom Paris in France and his colleagues have devised an artificial skin for interactive devices that responds to touch. The skin is able to detect a variety of gestures, including sliding, stretching and rotation.

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October means pumpkin spice and everything nice for some people, but for others, it’s all about the thrill of being scared witless. People have been paying for scary experiences for centuries. According to the Smithsonian, early relatives to modern haunted houses began experimenting with morbid themes like dismemberment, for example, at the turn of the 20th century. However, the traditional haunted house didn’t become a cultural icon until the opening of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion in 1969.

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Ants are notoriously much better than humans at organizing their collective traffic flow when foraging for food, but how they manage to do so isn't fully understood. A new study tries to understand the hidden bugs in their code that make them immune to traffic jams.

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IKEA is very much a tech company - using stats and analytics to determine what sells in which market and what doesn’t - so it makes sense that they’d embark on a full-blown “smart home” concept. The interior deco conglomerate is hoping that their “scenes” feature will set them apart from other smart home systems.

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