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Exploring what’s next. Stories on emerging ideas, innovations, and trends shaping the future of technology, culture, and the world ahead.
A dad invented the camera phone 28 years ago using a soldering iron during his daughters birth
It turns out that there’s a rather wholesome origin story behind the camera phone we now all carry in our pocket. The invention came to be after one dad snapped a picture of his daughter just after she was born. The new dad was determined to share the photo with friends and family quickly so […]
This 3,200-megapixel space camera is so powerful it’s already revealing secrets from the galaxy's edge
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just switched on its new space camera – the most powerful digital camera ever built. With a staggering 3,200 megapixels, this space camera is designed to capture more detail, from farther away, than anything that came before it. And it’s already delivering: the first images reveal clouds of interstellar […]
Iranian man develops eye-cam capable of capturing photos with a blink
It’s the opposite of ‘blink and you’ll miss it’





