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HAWAII
This ominous red
substance is molten lava
from the Puu vent
on the Klauea Volcano in
Hawaii, exposed by a
skylight in the roof of a
developing lava tube.
This one measures six
metres across and
reveals an active lava
stream that is travelling
to the upper right.
Skylights are extremely
dangerous to approach
from the ground, says
Christina Neal, scientistin-charge at the United
States Geological
Surveys (USGS)
Hawaiian Volcano
Observatory. A USGS
geologist took this photo
from a helicopter on one
of the teams routine
monitoring missions.
Klauea is considered
one of the worlds most
active volcanoes. This
eruption has been going
on nearly continuously
since January 3, 1983,
says Neal. Since then,
lava ows from the Puu
vent have added
about 200 hectares of
new land to the island of
Hawaii; the lava ow in
this photo has already
reached the ocean, 11
kilometres away.
Since May, Neals team
has been using forwardlooking infrared imagery
to create sequences of
thermal maps along the
lava ows length, which
they translate into
precise thermal uxes.
With these calculations,
the team is developing
better lava ow
forecasts, which helps
the Hawaii Volcanoes
National Park, local
emergency managers
and Hawaii Civil Defense
ofcials understand what
is happening, how much
lava is owing, and where
it is going. And thats
useful for deciding when
to issue warnings about
the volcanos potentially
red-hot hazards.
Tina Amirtha
hvo.wr.usgs.gov
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inequality, natural disasters or booming populations but combine the three and the result is
deadly. Robert Muggah, research director of
Rio de Janeiro-based think tank the Igarap
Institute, combed through data on 2,100 cities
to find out which factors make an area more
likely to become violent, unsafe and fragile .Every city in the
world manifests some degree, to a lesser or greater extent, of
fragility, says Muggah, who chronicled the worlds murders in
WIRED 07.15. In Asia, statistics that seem to pull cities towards
fragility are signicant numbers of terrorist killings or high
levels of air pollution. In the Americas, its homicide.
Although many of the worlds most fragile cities are alicted
by conict, about a third are located in stable countries. The 40
fragile cities in middle- or high-income countries include London,
whose social inequality and high
risk of ooding make it the fth
most fragile city in Europe. New
Yorks exposure to cyclones
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places it at the top of the US list.
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Cities seen to be stable can
potentially become less so, if we
5 - Very fragile
dont start understanding and
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engaging with some of these
underlying risks, Muggah says.
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fragility index with data on
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climate change from Carnegie
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Mellon University, Pennsylvania,
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in a visualisation that will be
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world in 2017. Yet, he says, there
are huge gaps when it comes to
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the developing world. There is
Afghanistan
HTI Haiti
a lack of information about
AUS Australia
IRQ Iraq
whats going on in the majority
BRA Brazil
NZL New Zealand
DRC Democratic Republic
PNG Papua New Guinea
of cities. Ninety per cent of future
RUS Russia
of the Congo
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COL Colombia
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Founder,
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ROBERTA LUCCA
Co-founder,
Bossa Studios
Theres a new
device thats been
developed by the
US Department
of Energys
SLAC National
Accelerator
Laboratory and
Stanford University
that uses the Suns
power to destroy
bacteria in water
within 20 minutes.
It might help people
in parts of the
world in need of
drinking water.
Im beta-testing
Mondo, a
smartphone bank
that has a physical
card. It helps me
identify my
spending trends
I spend more on
coffee than I
thought Im not
sure Ill switch
completely but Ill
use it as an
everyday card, or a
business account,
depending
on the fee.
Im a fan of the
Runtastic Results
app. Its the best
(virtual) personal
trainer Ive had.
Theres no need to
go somewhere
to train or to feel
guilty when
I cancel. Its more
convenient to have
a daily 15 minutes
of personalised
exercises in my
living room and
being video-based,
it is easy to get the
exercises right.
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YOUR LIFE!
Tristan Harris, founder of the Time Well Spent movement,
has some tips to prevent us from falling under techs spell
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DAM SUMMERS ADVISED PIXAR ON
piscine movement for Finding Nemo and
Finding Dory, earning himself a credit as
Fabulous Fish Guy. Now the University
of Washington professor, 52, is scanning
the skeletons of every known sh species
33,000 at last count so biomechanists can learn how to build future
underwater vehicles: These skeletons
hold billions of dollars in patentable secrets, but theyre useless if theyre not available.
Summers invited researchers from around the world to use his universitys CT scanner
to capture their specimens on the condition that they upload every bit of data to the Open
Science Framework, a website where researchers share scientic data for anyone to study.
Until now, many researchers kept their scans to themselves, but Summers trawl will form
the rst openly available database of its kind. Now, theyre there for anyone and for any
purpose commercial, non-commercial, scientic, educational and entertainment, he
says. Understanding the skeletal structure of pectoral ns could help engineers develop new
types of underwater propulsion, Summers explains, and species that burrow into the ocean
oor or cling to rocks could hold the key to bio-inspired industrial or surgical equipment.
Summers hopes his project will be complete within a few years, and is able to scan 50
species a day. One problem: scanning fully grown whale sharks, which can grow to more
than 12 metres in length, might prove a challenge. Once you hit a metre, they get to be more
diicult, he says. But all sh are small at some point. Matthew Reynolds osf.io/ecmz4
SCANNING
NEMO
Adam Summers advised Pixar
on fish anatomy. Now hes
open-sourcing oceans-ful
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AT LAST
TIME TO
REFLECT
Hamburgs ambitious
new concert hall is
finally opening, seven
years behind schedule
Elbphilharmonies
undulating roof
contains 1,100 steel
girders and rises
to 110 metres at
its highest point,
sloping down to 88
metres towards its
eastern end
Inside the
building, the
2,150-seat
concert hall is
wrapped in a white
skin made from
natural gypsum
and recycled
paper mixed with
plaster of Paris
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UNDERGROUND
A former Nasa satellite engineer and an
ex-Googler are bringing sunshine and
greenery to the catacombs of New York
A solar canopy
spreads sunlight
across the
space, enabling
plants to thrive
A blood bank
in Amsterdam
is using public
drinking water to
flash-cool its drug
production line
reducing the citys
water-heating
needs in the
process. Working
with Dutch
water company
Waternet, Sanquin
Blood Supply
Foundation has
found a way to
draw water from
Amsterdams
two main public
drinking-water
lines, both of
which pass near
its campus on the
west side of the
city. Then, using
a heat exchanger,
Sanquin extracts
the cold from the
water, leaving
the rest of
Amsterdams
drinking water
0.5C warmer in
the winter months.
A portion of this
it keeps the
bloods leftover
plasma in order
to manufacture
plasma-based
therapies on-site.
This production
process requires a
year-round stream
of sterile water
to sanitise its lab
tools. If we clean
our parts with
water thats not
within the right
parameters, then
the end product
is not good to go.
We cannot use it,
says Roy van der
Mark, Sanquins
installation
manager.
Sanquin heats
the process water
up to 80C before
using a quick burst
of energy to cool
it down rapidly to
20C before use.
Basically, we need
a lot of cooling
down there,
says Pedd. Tina
Amirtha sanquin.nl
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scientists is putting 20,000 years of environmental history on ice. The aim is to create a
heritage for future generations of scientists, explains Jrme Chappellaz, research director
at Frances National Centre for Scientic Research and co-initiator of the Ice Memory
project. Otherwise the glaciers, the raw material for the ideas of tomorrow, will disappear.
Ice trapped at the bottom of some glaciers dates back to 18,000 BCE when glacial coverage
was at its peak. As it froze it trapped bubbles of atmospheric gas and radioactive substances,
along with dust and pollen. By drilling a cylindrical core through the ice, Chappellazs team
can extract a timeline of the changing environment around the glacier, and how human
activity has afected it. We will measure water isotopes and concentrations of chemical
species and trace gases, he explains. In future we should develop the methods to access
this signal, to study the genome and its evolution, in trapped bacteria and viruses.
New analytic techniques will be useless, however, without material to analyse. Although
ice sheltered more than 100 metres down at the bottom of a glacier wont be disappearing
any time soon, continuous melting at the surface can cause meltwater to percolate down
and distort the geochemical signals
preserved below. So, starting with the
collection of three 130-metre-long
samples from Col du Dme glacier in
the Mont Blanc massif in August 2016,
the Ice Memory project plans to create
a library of hundreds of cores in an
ice cave at Antarcticas Concordia
A team of scientists are storing samples
Research Station, where mean annual
temperatures hover around -54C.
from glaciers to stop history melting away
DEEPER
FREEZE
Below, left-right
Researchers Luc
Piard, Vladimir
Mikhalenko and
Andrea Spolaor
extract an ice
sample (left)
Above: Richard
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of Sandoz
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University of Glasgow
Magdalena
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University of
Cambridge
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Waseem Qasim, UCL
Demis Hassabis,
DeepMind
Peter Kazansky,
Optoelectronics
Research Centre
Kathy Niakan, The
Francis Crick Institute
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Claudia Hammond
is the author of
Mind over Money:
the Psychology
of Money and How
To Use It Better
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MENTAL ILLNESS:
A SECOND OPINION
Stuart Ritchie
is postdoctoral
fellow at the
University of
Edinburghs Centre
for Cognitive Ageing
and Epidemiology
F
or years, disruption has been the
rallying cry of the business of technology. And through technologys inuence, disruption has become valued in
education, governance and day-today life. But there is a bigger idea than
upsetting and tearing things asunder:
embracing them as they already are
and finding respectful, true and
therefore pleasurable and benecial
ways of improving them.
Disruption was popularised in
Clayton M Christensens 1997 book The
Innovators Dilemma. In it, he showed
that startups can disrupt the incumbents by appealing to customers future
needs. Christensens claims have since
been disputed, but no matter. Disruption
has weathered the storm. Now, every
startup wants to disrupt something,
from taxis, hotels and shopping to
pooing, ageing and even death.
As a business proposition, disruption
promises to upset entrenched ways of
life that could work more eiciently. For
example, people like Uber because it
allows them to hail a car in cities around
the world, in the same way, without
talking to anyone. People like Airbnb
because it facilitates breaks at a lower
cost than hotels, but with more space.
And people like Facebook because it
ofers a one-stop experience for socialisation and discovery.
The rhetoric of disruption makes
it hard to raise doubts about tech
companies. Critics worry that Uber
and Airbnb out local regulation, or
that Facebooks strong inuence on web
traic undermines the independence
and viability of the news media. Such
ideas, even if provisional, are seen as
retrograde attacks on progress itself.
Disruptors frame themselves as revolutionaries, and in parallel their targets
become oppressors.
All this bluster has clouded what it
means to produce progressive change
in commercial, industrial, civic and
IAN BOGOST
ITS TIME
FOR US
TO DISRUPT
THE VERY
NOTION OF
DISRUPTION
I
t was maddening. After departing
San Francisco in September 2015 and
crossing America on my campaign bus
to post a Transhumanist Bill of Rights
to the US Capitol, the single-page document wouldnt stick to the sandstone
wall. Standing on the steps near Capitol Hills main entrance, I began ripping
of more masking tape to try to help my
document adhere better. Then I heard
the footsteps and yelling behind me.
Posting anything on the US Capitol is
illegal. Within seconds, police and soldiers carrying M-16s had me surrounded, ordering me to back away.
I turned to everyone and explained
what transhumanism was: a social
movement that wants to use science
and technology to radically change the
human species. I told them why posting
the Transhumanist Bill of Rights was
so important: it defended the right of
humans to experiment with technology
on their bodies; it gave personhood to
future sapient individuals such as AI;
and it established the core transhumanist aim that people have a universal
right to live indenitely through science.
A guard clutching his machine gun
less than a metre away warned me I
was going to be arrested. I pondered
this, but turned back to the building
and re-posted the document on it.
The thing was, this wasnt just any
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document. Nor was transhumanism just
any movement. Both were inescapably
bound to the future of humankind. And
this small act of civil disobedience was
just the rst step of a long journey one
of radical evolution that would involve
human beings uploading their minds
into machines, replacing their hearts
with bionic ones and using CRISPR
genome-editing tech to grow gills so
they could breathe underwater. The
guard looked at me as if I was insane.
In March 2013, I published a novel
called The Transhumanist Wager. The
book asks a simple question: how far
would you go to ght an anti-science
world in order to live indefinitely
through transhumanism? Protagonist
Jethro Knights would start a world war
and does so in the book. It can be seen
as a political manifesto, and although I
dont believe in all of the books Nietzschean philosophy, 18 months after
publishing it I announced that I was
running for the US presidency. I really
do want to create a science-minded
world, and I think humanitys well-being
and happiness would be better of for it.
Will AI solve all the worlds problems
when it arrives? Will sex disappear as
we install microchips in our brains
that stimulate pleasure zones? Will we
double our childrens IQ with gene-editing techniques and nanotechnology?
The questions are endless, the ethics
murky. Nonetheless, companies
many of which are where I live in San
Francisco are already working on all
these ideas. My goal with my transhumanist evangelism and the political
Transhumanist Party I lead is to spread
awareness of the questions, and on
occasion attempt qualied answers. Its
tough going, to say the least. Transhumanist activism is a new concept, and
even my Transhumanist Bill of Rights
wont stick to a slick historic wall.
Zoltan Istvan
is a US-based
journalist,
entrepreneur and
transhumanist
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COGNITIVE
INSIGHT
#5
COMMERCE
IBM
WATSON
n Econsultancy report from 2015 contains a statistic that should make every
brand looking to sell anything from
shoes to insurance take a sharp breath.
Eighty-one per cent of the consumer
brands surveyed said that they had a
working holistic view of their customers.
That shows tremendous confidence in
their ability to understand what their
THE INFORMATION
REVOLUTION
IN COMMERCE
CUSTOMERS ALREADY
SHARE LARGE AMOUNTS
OF DATA WITH BRANDS
BUT IT IS SPREAD ACROSS
MULTIPLE CHANNELS,
OFTEN SILOED, AND RARELY
INTELLIGENTLY ANALYSED
FINANCE GETS TRULY PERSONAL
IBM Commerce is enabling Standard Life
to meet the specific financial requirements of its UK customers. Using IBM
analytics, Standard Life can examine
previously untapped structured and
unstructured data to precisely track a
persons interactions across different
screens and devices.
Standard Life can then create unique
customer profiles to illustrate each
persons financial needs and long-term
aspirations. This enables employees to
more effectively make recommendations to Standard Life customers across
multiple channels online, via mobile
device, or live with consultants.
YOU KNOW
YOU CANT
BE TRUSTED.
ONE IN FOUR PEOPLE BREAK THEIR NEW
PHONE WITHIN A MONTH.
TECH21.COM
ROBORACE
DEVBOT
No, its not a sci-fi
film: Roborace is
a new racing series
for self-driving cars.
To perfect the tech
and software,
Roborace created
this Le Mans-style
prototype test
model. Eventually,
all competing teams
will run identical
electric vehicles
and use the same
sensors, powertrain,
processors and
comms, but will
have to develop
their own control
algorithms for
competitive edge.
roborace.com
R AT E D & R E V I E W E D / E D I T E D B Y J E R E M Y W H I T E / P H O T O G R A P H Y : A N D Y B A R T E R / 0 6 1
DESIGN & INTERIORS - SOUND & VISION SPORT & LEISURE - RIDES - TOYS - TIME
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Handmade in
London, each
Herringbone vase
is 30cm tall,
weighs 2.5kg and
has its edition
number branded
into the base
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PHIL CUTTANCE
HERRINGBONE
VASE
The complex
details and precise
angles of Phil
Cuttances work
may suggest the
involvement of
a 3D printer, but
each vase
conceals subtle
imperfections that
reveal its low-tech
handmade origins.
The Herringbone
vase is cast in a
pleat-patterned
mould from a
water-based
cement composite,
then etched to
emphasise the
sharp lines. 255
philcuttance.com
KUDU MOON
LUNAR LIGHT
Machined from
polyurethane resin
in 1/20-million
scale, using data
from Nasas Lunar
Reconnaissance
Orbiter, the MOON
Lunar Light
replicates every
crater and ridge
of its celestial
ICANDY MICHAIR
Designed to grow
as your child
does, the iCandy
MiChair morphs
from low-level
newborn rocker
into secure high
chair, a toddlers
dining seat or
a comfortable
rocking chair.
A smart beechwood-and-chrome
finish ensures
the MiChair wont
look out of place
in a high-end
kitchen, and
the removable
padded insert
and wipe-clean
finish keeps
things practical.
tbc icandy
world.com
DYSON V8
ABSOLUTE
CORDLESS
VACUUM
With twice the
suction of any
other cordless
vacuum, Dysons
V8 ensures you
dont have to
compromise
SHAPER ORIGIN
Bringing autocorrection to
the physical
world, the Shaper
Origin hand-held
CNC machine can
track and readjust
the position of the
cutting tool while
on the move
to within a quarter
of a millimetre
of your original
design. Its
automatic depthdetection ensures
repeatable
grooves every
time. Perfect for
aspiring makers
everywhere. $2,099
shapertools.com
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WITHINGS
THERMO
Using 16 infrared
sensors to take
more than 4,000
no-contact
measurements
from along the
temporal artery, the
Withings Thermo
provides precise
temperature
readings with
none of the hygiene
concerns of
interaction with
bodily fluids. It can
also be set it up
to send reminders
and notifications
of related
symptoms. 89.95
withings.com
LITHIUM SUPER
73 ELECTRIC BIKE
Equal parts geekchic commuter
ride and ecofriendly off-roader,
the 1,000W Super
73 has the sturdy
tyres and frame for
handling a few
bumps, plus a neat
cupholder and a
USB power point
for the daily
to-and-fro. It has
a top speed of
70kph, a maximum
range of 51km
(extendible if
you pedal along),
and weighs in at
31kg. The battery
charges from at to
full in under four
hours. From $2,999
lithiumcycles.com
PORSCHE
PANAMERA 4
E-HYBRID
The Panamera is
now smarter and
more eco-friendly,
with a power
delivery that gives
you V6 petrol and
motor power right
from the off. The
batterys capacity
has been boosted
by 50 per cent,
allowing a range of
50km (and a top
speed of 138kph)
on electric power
alone. Elsewhere,
you get a faster
shifting eightspeed gearbox and
a new cockpit with
three touchscreen
displays.
From 71,795
porsche.com
LILIUM JET
When it rolls out
in 2018, the Lilium
Jet aims to be the
rst electric
vertical take-off
and landing jet.
Theoretically, that
means you could
land in a large
garden without too
much trouble
assuming you
have a sport pilots
licence. The Lilium
team claims the jet
will weigh up to
600kg, with two
people, and have a
range of 777km at
a cruising speed of
466kph. poa
lilium-aviation.com
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MASON BOKEH
More than a year
in development, the
Bokeh was conceived
with the burgeoning
adventure-sport
scene in mind
(think tough rides
such as the
Transcontinental). It
is hand-built using a
custom-formed
Dedacciai tubeset
with a unique
D-section downtube
and BoatTail seat
stays for tyre
clearance and
all day comfort.
Pair the frame and
custom fork with
the AdventureSport
650b wheelset
(built by fellow
Brighton startup
HUNT) and the
Bokeh will take you
far, fast all you
need is the legs.
1,150 (for frame,
fork, seat clamp
and through axles)
masoncycles.cc
MERCEDES-AMG
GT ROADSTER
The AMG GT has
won admirers, in
large part down to
its bold silhouette.
But does it still work
with the roof lopped
off? Luckily, yes. It
helps that the front
grille, air inlets and
vents have been
tweaked, and those
changes arent
just aesthetic: the
soft top has the
aerodynamics of
the range-topping
GT R. Combined
with the 4.0-litre V8
motor under the
bonnet, it could
make the rooess
AMG GT even
more compelling
to drive than its
hardtop sibling.
poa mercedesbenz.com
EDORADO 7S
The all-electric
twin-prop 7S boat
powered by two
40kW motors
makes use of two
side-mounted
hydrofoils level with
the windshield to
elevate it, thereby
JAGUAR
F-TYPE SVR
Nobody who's
driven Jaguars
F-Type R would
have walked away
thinking, What
that really needs
is a big slug of
extra horsepower.
Nevertheless,
Jaguar-Land
Rover has
reorganised its
performance
division, naming
it Special Vehicle
Operations, so
more power is
exactly what the
F-Type got up to
567bhp. And fourwheel drive, a racy
bodykit and of
course more
noise. 110,000
jaguar.co.uk
The G Pinto ON
can connect to
computers via USB
and to portable
devices using
a Bluetooth aptX
audio receiver
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G PINTO ON
A designer
turntable that
does the lot, the
G Pinto ON has a
built-in class-D
amp (100W, 250W
or 500W) that
can play analogue,
digital and
high-denition
24-bit le
sources. Unlike
most modern
multifunctional
pieces of tech,
its beautifully
crafted using
beech veneer deck,
smooth Corian
for the plinth,
exposed valves
and a carbon-bre
arm. From
3,000 gpinto.it
RAUMFELD X
ROSENTHAL
German audio
brand Raumfeld
has teamed up
with Rosenthal,
one of the
worlds nest
ceramic houses,
to create the
worlds rst
streaming speaker
made from
porcelain. The
milky matte
teardrop design
looks suitably
sensational, but
the real treat is in
the sound quality
created by the
naturally low
resonance of solid
ceramic. poa
raumfeld.com
POPSLATE 2
The original
popSLATE, an
iPhone case with
an e-ink screen
displaying push
notications via
ifthis, then that
statements was
inspired, but didnt
quite deliver. This
second iteration,
50 per cent thinner
with a 200dpi
screen, pulls
notications swiftly
via the popSLATE
app, making
customisation
a breeze.
$129 popslate.com
ISINE 10
Audeze has
managed to shrink
its patented planar
magnetic driver
technology into
a pair of 20g in-ear
headphones. The
LOEWE BILD 9
Loewes exquisite
new 55-inch Ultra
HD (3,840 x 2,160
pixels) OLED TV
has a built-in
120W soundbar
that effortlessly
appears when the
set is switched
on. A 1TB DR+
hard drive and
Freeview+ tuner
will take care of
your streaming
needs, but the
real draw here
is the Bodo
Sperlein-designed
sculptural stand
thats made to
order and ensures
a show-stopping
design. Similarly
striking stand
speakers are
also available.
poa loewe.tv
impossibly small
but perfectly
pocketable 30mm
drivers produce
a richly detailed,
distortion-free
sound thats
only enhanced
DREWMAN
D1 AND DT
Precision-milled
from a solid block
of aluminium and
nished with a
unique radial
burst archtop,
Drewmans guitar
bodies offer tourproof toughness
without the weight
(1.8kg). The curves
remain classic,
with the benet of
perfect resonance
and sublime
sustain. Made to
order in D1 or DT
shapes, complete
with humbucker
cut-out. poa
drewman.co.uk
by the inclusion
of an inline amp,
DSP and DAC, all
powered via the
24-bit iPhone
7-loving Lightning
port cable.
$399 audeze.com
SAMSUNG
GALAXY S7 EDGE
Superb industrial
design meets topnotch performance
in Samsungs
5.5in powerhouse.
Everything about
this device shines
from its Super
AMOLED screen to
the 12MP, optically
stabilised rear
camera and smart
ngerprint sensor
all backed up with
a beefy 3,600mAh
battery. Its also
water- and dustresistant. 640
samsung.com
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BANG & OLUFSEN
BEOSOUND 1 & 2
Not to be confused
with offshoot
portable brand
BeoPlay, the latest
wireless speakers
from B&O are every
bit as audiophile.
BeoSound 1 is a
rock-solid
aluminium affair
with a 16-hour
battery life; the
mains-powered
BeoSound 2 offers
a bigger sound with
exceptional clarity.
Both have B&O
Acoustic Lens
technology and
360 sound, plus
integrated access
to TuneIn, Spotify
and Deezer, and
compatibility with
the BeoLink Multiroom portfolio.
From 995 bangolufsen.com
HK AUDIO LUCAS
NANO 608I
A life-saver for
gigging musicians,
this 16.3kg all-inone PA system
with built-in
eight-channel
digital mixer can
be controlled
wirelessly via an
iPad app you can
tweak volumes
and check the
sound quality from
anywhere in the
room. Two 4.5-inch
satellite speakers
are hidden inside
the main unit,
which houses a
subwoofer and
460W power amp.
1,199 hkaudio.com
MCINTOSH RS100
With its blue meter
and classic dials,
this wireless
network speaker is
unmistakably
McIntosh. And,
given it was tuned
by its acoustic
engineer Carl Van
Gelder, it sounds
like one, too. The
single bookshelfspeaker design
supports almost
every audio format
and, with DTS
Play-Fi Wi-Fi
streaming, you can
hook up 16
speakers to create
an unforgettable
sound. $1,000
mcintoshlabs.com
STEREO
MONO
C O M PA C T
NANO
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TWIN
STEREO
SONUS
FABER SF16
This 1,400W multiroom streaming
speaker is the first
all-in-one audio
system from
Sonus Faber. It has
opposing frontand rear-firing
bass drivers in a
hand-crafted shell
and two satellite
speakers housing
four tweeters and
ceramic midrange
drivers. It can take
24-bit/192kHz
hi-res files, and
you can link up
to 16 speakers via
the DTS Play-Fi
platform. 9,900
sonusfaber.com
S T E R E O S E PA R AT I O N
TH E SF 16S TW O
SATELLIT E SPE AKE RS
EXTEN D O UT BY 440MM
AMAZON
ECHO & DOT
After a crash
course in English
accents, Alexa,
Amazons voiceactivated personal
assistant, finally
makes its UK
debut. It offers
hands-free control
for the likes of
Amazon Music,
Spotify and Uber,
plus smart-home
integration with
Philips Hue and
SmartThings.
With its built-in
speaker, the Echo
provides central
control. The pucklike Dot (not
pictured) will be
available in multipacks to build a
household voice
network. Echo
149.99; Dot 49.99
amazon.co.uk
AVRA 1-HUNDRED
Quite a number of
car designers
try their hands at
watch design;
very few manage
to bring anything
genuinely new to
to the watchs
locking crown
(found in the square
corner of the 46mm
titanium case) and
its perpendicular
time display, which
uses a sapphire ring
sandwiched
between the front
and back of the
case to show
the time from
a side-on view.
Each model takes
six months to
machine and is
made to order.
$2,500 avrawatch
company.com
TUDOR BLACK
BAY DARK
Tudors Heritage
Black Bay has been
so successful over
the past three
years it has come
single-handedly to
exemplify the
brands revival in
the UK. Blackedout designs are
nothing new, but as
with previous Black
Bays, the execution
is so sharp (the
dial stands up
flawlessly to
microscopic
inspection) that
it once again sets
the standard. If
you find the black
bracelet a bit
much, swap it for
the grey textile
strap (included
as standard) to
leaven the look
a little. 3,050
tudorwatch.com
APPLE WATCH
EDITION WHITE
CERAMIC
The Series 2
version of Apples
smartwatch now
has built-in GPS
and an IP67 rating,
meaning its waterresistant to 50
metres. It can also
track your running
without having to
be a slave to an
iPhone. WIREDs
favourite option is
the top-of-therange 38mm
White Ceramic:
thanks to a spot of
amazingly tricky
machining it looks
great on the wrist
and, at 39.6g, is
lighter than the
41.9g stainlesssteel model.
1,249 apple.com
OMEGA
PLANET OCEAN
DEEP BLACK
Omegas Deep
Black breaks new
ground in using a
fiendishly hard-tomachine monobloc
ceramic case
thats waterproof
to 600 metres. It
wears bigger than
its 45mm size
would suggest, but
youre not buying
one of these if
compromise is on
the agenda. Up
close, the build
quality is easily
good enough
to justify the
chunky price tag.
7,900 omega
watches.com
SWATCH
SISTEM51 IRONY
SISTEM51 the
only mechanical
watch movement
assembled on an
entirely automated
production line
sounds like heresy
in an industry that
venerates handmade craft. But
hardcore fans
love it because
its an honestly
priced distillation
of a simple idea.
Previously only
available in
plastic cases,
the SISTEM51 now
comes in a wide
range of stainlesssteel designs. From
127 swatch.com
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LEGO TECHNIC:
BUCKET WHEEL
EXCAVATOR
The largest LEGO
Technic set to
date, this detailed
mining excavator
model includes a
control cab and
moving conveyor
belts. Once your
excavation is
complete, rebuild
the set into
an aggregate
processing plant
to separate your
material by size.
179.99 lego.com
PLUS-PLUS
BUILDING SET
Denmark-based
Plus-Plus has
been making
these tactile
building blocks
since 2012. WIRED
first spotted them
at BIGs HQ in
Copenhagen and
if its good enough
for Bjarke Ingels,
its good enough
for us. Available in
Midi (50mm) and
Mini (20mm) sizes
in basic, neon and
pastel colour
themes, Plus-Plus
brings Minecraftstyle worldbuilding into the
real world. 5
for 100 pieces.
plus-plus.dk
YOSHIDA AVION
DE PNAUD PLANE
Despite its sleek
modern looks, the
Avion de Pnauds
design dates back
to 1871 and its
still lots of fun
today. It draws
inspiration from
the words first
rubber-band-
powered model
del
aeroplane that
was created by
Parisian aviation
pioneer Alphonse
Pnaud. 19.10
fredaldous.co.uk
ANKI COZMO
This mini robot
uses advanced
computer vision
alongside
smartphonepowered machine
learning to demand
you join in with its
games. Cozmo
also emotes,
using expressions
designed by
former Pixar
animator Carlos
Baena. $179.99
anki.com
ANALOGUE
NT MINI
The Nt mini console
uses original NES
components for a
highly authentic
8-bit experience.
The system is
compatible with
more than 2,000
NES or Famicom
cartridges. $449
analogue.co
PLAYSTATION PRO
With 4.2 teraflops
of raw processing
power, HDR output
and support for 4K
upscaled games,
the Pro is ready for
Ultra HD screens
and immersive
experiences
with PlayStation
VR. $349.99
playstation.com
NINEBOT ROBOT
SEGWAY
Based on a
Segway MiniPRO,
Ninebots cute
companion will
take you to work
in the morning,
carry messages
around the office,
lug your shopping
home in the
evening, then
carry on following
your commands
around the house
with voice
recognition, depth
sensing and face
recognition. poa
robot.segway.com
XBOX ONE S
The One S is 40 per
cent smaller than
its predecessor,
but theres no
decrease in power
all the better to
take advantage of
its 4K 60Hz output.
It also doubles as
an Ultra HD Blu-ray
player. 249.99
xbox.com
PRIMO
CUBETTO
A stylish update
on the LOGO
Turtle, this is
code construction
reduced to its
simplest
essentials, with
no language
knowledge
whether English
or C++ required.
Kids simply
arrange the tactile,
brightly coloured
blocks into the
control panel and
watch Cubetto
execute their
commands. $225
primotoys.com
686 SILVER
PIGEON I
SHOTGUN
Call it a budgett
Beretta if you
must, but this
stripped-down
12-bore, with a
choice of just 288or 30-inch barrels,
els,
has the flawless
s
performance
and features
competitive
shooters have
come to expect
from the 686
action, just
without the
heirloom-inducing
ing
price tag. 1,495
5
beretta.com
PEBBLE CORE
Pebble has
a knack of
understanding
what people
actually need their
wearables to do,
and as a result the
Core could be a
compelling fitness
companion.
The ultra-light
3G-enabled GPStoting 4GB dongle
lets you exercise
without your
smartphone and
track your run
accurately with
Strava, MapMyRun
et al, all while
streaming Spotify.
Its even Amazon
Alexa-compatible,
so you can order
an Uber when
the hill climb
gets too much.
$99 pebble.com
MO TO RS I N THE SO L E
W I ND I N THE L ACE S
NIKE
HYPERADAPT
1.0 TRAINERS
Great Scott! Nike
has finally
launched a line
of self-lacing
trainers featuring
electro-adaptive
reactive laces, a
technology which
adapts the fit
of the laces to
the individual
wearers foot
shape and weight
distribution.
Two buttons are
also on hand to
tweak the fit to
perfection. Fans
of Back to the
Future Part II
can finally look
the part while
streaming Huey
Lewis and the
News. Now, about
that hoverboard
tbc nike.com See
p90 for more on
the HyperAdapt 1.0
STARCK EYES
Philippe Starck
continues to
innovate with
his latest eyewear
range. These blend
his signature
Biolink 360
screwless hinge
modelled on the
human clavicle
with Gravity, a
new, 100 per
cent recyclable
polymer that,
despite being
extremely tough,
is feather-light,
scratch-resistant
and non-allergenic.
Around 300
starck.com
SELKBAG
ORIGINAL
Redefining cosy,
one anatomically
correct sleeping
bag at a time, the
new Selkbag
features ripstop
nylon, zip-off feet
and a snuggly
kangaroo pocket.
Theres also
masses of
insulation to
cocoon every limb
without restricting
movement, and
once the inclement
weather passes,
the suit packs
down to a highly
portable 38cm x
25cm. Available in
three sizes for
adults, there is also
the Lite,a singlelayer version for
warmer climes.
119.99 selkbag.eu
OPERATOR AXE
Weighing just 900g
but packing 24
tools into a single
length of 435
stainless steel,
the Operator Axe
includes a ruler,
wrench, hammer,
pry bar and axe,
plus metric and
standard hex
wrench openings.
It can be wielded
equally well if
youre right- or
left-handed. $160
511tactical.com
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POWEREGG
Aside from its
bag-friendly
folding design,
this PowerVision
drone has gesturerecognition remote
control and pushbutton take-off
and landing.
Theres also a
host of automated
flight modes
including Follow
Me, Orbit and
Selfie mode, plus
long distance
(5km) real-time
video transmission
using the on-board
4K UHD camera
and a flight time of
23 minutes. 1,290
powervision.me
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The PowerEgg
has an in-flight
pause function
just press the
button on the
remote, and the
drone will stop and
hold its position
JONNY VOON
LEAD TECHNOLOGIST OF IOT
INNOVATE UK
MISCHA DOHLER
CHAIR PROFESSOR
OF WIRELESS
COMMUNICATIONS
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
KASSIR HUSSAIN
DIRECTOR OF CONNECTED HOME
HIVE
SAVERIO ROMEO
PRINCIPAL ANALYST
BEECHAM RESEARCH
CAROLINE GORSKI
HEAD OF INTERNET OF THINGS
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is becoming more
accessible and it is easier to
experience. But it has taken
time for us to get here and
in some ways I dont feel
changes were seeing today
are as big as those made in
the last 20 years.
I do look forward to a time
when I can run my home
in a far more interactive
way, create a smart and
personalised space that
feels fluid and is smart
enough to adapt as I need it
to. Its these changes that
will allow me to be able to
stay in my home for longer,
even support me into old
age, if the environment
becomes intelligent
enough that it can be
adapted to suit me as my
physical needs change.
Thats the real benefit of a
smart home.
DESIGN
FOR
LIFE
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KEEP UP WITH HOWEVER YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE IT.
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Beasts of
Balance is a
modern-day
mashup of
Buckaroo!
and CRISPR >
balance of objects
and of nature.
He combined
that satisfaction
with the lessons of
Blocks, a Hide &
Seek game that
used PlayStation
Move to stack
wobbly cubes.
The result is, well, a
different beast.
Beasts of Balance
ties physical
pieces to a digital
world. Players have
to balance animals
and artefacts on a
plinth, connected
by Bluetooth to
a smartphone or
tablet. Special
items can
transform or
hybridise animals
on-screen to
create new
combinations its
a cross between
Buckaroo! and
CRISPRs genetic
engineering.
Beasts of
Balances lead
developer George
Buckenham,
whose previous
projects include a
competitive
custard-punching
game, singles out
The burnished gold walls of the new music centre in Calgary disseminate music around the surrounding area
2,040-square-metre building. Instead of creating
noisy echoes, the sound is tightly tuned, thanks to
digitally modelled spacing between the tiles and
underlying fibreglass insulation. In places, the
vertical joints between tiles are widened to absorb
more sound. In the lobby, a moveable performance
wall lets the space be customised depending
on what a piece entails. Outside, nine interlocking
terracotta towers are covered in a custom
slate glaze that took three years to develop.
Costing CAD$191 million (117m) to construct, Studio Bell will exhibit 2,000 instruments and artefacts, and is intended to jump-start the redevelopment of the East Village
in Calgary. The centres policy is to ensure at least 20 per cent of the instruments are in
working condition, forming what it calls a living collection.
With its exhibition spaces, a radio station and classrooms in addition to the concert
hall, Cloepfil hopes the centre will encourage artists in the area to use the building
for performances or even as a rehearsal space.
Its an entirely new institution, says the 60-yearAbove: Studio Bells cavernous
old. Its like a 24-hour drop-in music venue.
space was programmatically designed
Ruby Lott-Lavigna studiobell.ca
based on light and sound models
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at Kerava Art Museum
from November 26
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Odermatt. Its
magical, but it has
to feel plausible.
To achieve
the desired effect
required a big
leap in computer
power for Disney.
A typical home
computer has
between one and
four cores. We
peaked at 55,000
cores on Big
Hero 6, laughs
Driskill. Our high
on this movie
is 76,000 cores
running full tilt.
YouTube goes
to the movies
CROWD
CONTROL
Theme-park
games typically
focus on the
rides but Planet
Coaster is about
the queues. Weve
always wanted to
do a super-deep
simulation, says
Jonny Watts,
chief creative
officer at Frontier
Developments.
In the PC game,
out in November,
each player has
to physically
get on the rides,
go to the shops and
spend money,
says Watts.
To model a
better crowd, the
studio evaluated
real-life parks,
as well as crowd
dynamics. If
your paths are too
small, or youve
got choke points,
guests get bored,
says principal
programmer
Owen McCarthy, 32.
That affords so
much gameplay,
because the
way you connect
your park means
something,
adds Watts. For
example: putting
the biggest rides
further into the
park ensures
guests have to
flow through
the whole site,
but the distance
may make them
tired. After all, a
happy guest will
keep moving and
spending. planet
coaster.com OF-W
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ALMELLEHAN
An 18-year-old Syrian
refugee, now resettled
in the UK, Almellehan is
an activist and Malala
Fund campaigner.
HESTON
BLUMENTHAL
A Michelin-starred
chef, Blumenthal
specialises in creating
scientifically curated,
multi-sensory cuisine.
ALICE BENTINCK
Champion of young
founders and getting
girls coding, Bentinck
helps build startups
from scratch through
Entrepreneur First.
KRTIN
NITHIYANANDAM
At 15, Nithiyanandam
created an Alzheimersdetecting test which
won a prize at the
Google Science Fair.
SAMANTHA PAYNE
Paynes Open Bionics
turns amputee children
into superheroes by
building robotic hands
inspired by movies
such as Iron Man.
ED BARTON
Barton co-founded
Curiscope, which
creates immersive VR
and AR experiences
such as Virtuali-Tee,
an AR biology app.
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OK, flying cars are still a few years away, but Tiffany Beers
has made Marty McFlys futuristic trainers a reality
3. Context is everything.
When youre dealing with
learning a new language,
context plays a big role
in understanding intent,
says Coon. For example:
Earth in English refers to
the planet, but also the
dirt. To better understand,
ask yourself: Why
is somebody saying this?
What is the context
they are saying it in?
1. Introduce yourself.
Its always a good rule,
says Coon. Then make
them understand you want
to exchange language. A
hard task in monolingual
fieldwork situations is
getting the other person
to understand what you
want. If I point at
something, I first need you
to understand that I want
you to give me words.
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each movement
of Vivaldis Four
Seasons, laying out
the data by note.
Each circle is a
note, arranged on
a vertical scale
according to
pitch and octave;
the colours denote
instruments.
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OF THE
SEASONS
This is Vivaldis Four Seasons, quantified. Its the work of data artist Nicholas Rougeux,
who takes pleasure in making audiences see familiar artworks in unusual ways. His
previous projects include Between the Words, which stripped literary classics from
Pride and Prejudice to Moby-Dick down to just their punctuation. In Sonnet Signatures,
he interpreted Shakespeares love poems through their most common letters.
For Off the Staff, Rougeux breaks down classical compositions, from Vivaldi to
Beethhoven. I can barely read sheet music, explains Chicago-based Rougeux, 33.
Sheet music is an efficient way to look at music. Scales are condensed to the same
ve staf bars and denoted higher or lower with clefs. Doing away with that eiciency and
showing all notes on the same scale brought each score to life.
The result highlights the signatures of diferent composers. For
example, Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven reaches a high pitch, which
SEE THE MUSIC
is shown by a spike in the diagram, says Rougeux. This is subtle in
Using MuseScore,
the sheet music. Rougeux plans to sell the prints, and is already
a sheet-music app,
working on new scores to illustrate. I want others to see the diference
Rougeux converted
the notation of
between these scores, without having to hear a note. OF-W C82.net
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IN OCTOBER, WIRED AND PICTET CO-HOSTED THE
SECOND EVENT IN A SERIES DESIGNED TO STIMULATE
DEBATE AROUND EUROPES HOTTEST STARTUP CITIES
SELIN PERSENTILI
Global brand ambassador and
consultant, Persentili splits
her time between the UKs and
Turkeys technology ecosystems.
EFE CAKAREL
Cakarel is co-founder and
CEO of MUBI, a curated lm
streaming platform that uses
a subscription-based model.
ALI KARABEY
Investment capitalist Karabey
is the founder and managing
director of 212, an Istanbulbased venture capital fund.
DEMET MUTLU
Mutlu founded fashion
e-commerce site Trendyol in
2010, investing her own money
to launch the business.
ROYS GURELI
Gureli is founder and CEO
of annelutfen.com, an online
retailer for the home delivery
of baby care items.
ALAN MOORE
Providence (below)
is likely to be one
of The Master's
last comics after
turning to novels
Move over, capes: mystery comics are proving an alluring alternative in an industry that netted $1 billion (820m) in
2015. The genre has been around since the 60s think DCs House of Mystery but the success of reprints of Will Eisners
The Spirit in the late 90s set the stage for a comeback. Publisher Dark Horse has the most titles, including Black Hammer,
which follows a super-team trapped in a rural town, prevented from leaving by an unknown force. Elsewhere, Snotgirl
by Bryan Lee OMalley he of Scott Pilgrim features a smash-hit YouTuber but is her stalker real? And is she even
famous? Unfollow explores what happens when 140 social-media users are named as heirs to a billionaires fortune. Even
arch-scribe Alan Moore is getting on-trend with his neo-Cthulhu mythos.
Now the big two, DC and Marvel, have noticed the upswing. Occasional
Avenger the Vision is in the midst of a domestic murder-mystery storyline,
while DCs Gotham Academy which follows the young detectives of Batmans
prep school is one of a series of alt-mystery comics on their new slate. But
what caused this mysterious return? Its likely a response to super-saturation
in mainstream culture. When will it end? Find out next time Mike Dent
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of DCs Scooby
Apocalypse (yes,
that mystery-solving
dog), May 2016
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in a decades-spanning series of
papers on concrete algorithms
for recursive self-improvement,
with the goal of building a superintelligence. I predicted that, in
hindsight, the ultimate self-improver will seem so simple that
high-school students will be able
to understand and implement it. I
said its the last signicant thing
a man can create, because all else
follows from that. I am still saying it.
What kind of computational
device should we use to build
AIs? Physics dictates that future
eicient computational hardware
will look a lot like a brain-like
recurrent neural network (RNN),
a general-purpose computer
with many processors packed in
a compact volume connected by
wires, to minimise communication
costs3. Your cortex has more than
ten billion neurons, each connected
to 10,000 other neurons on average.
Some are input neurons that feed
the rest with data (sound, vision,
touch, pain, hunger). Others are
output neurons that move muscles.
Most are hidden in between, where
thinking takes place. All learn by
changing the connection strengths,
which determine how strongly
neurons inuence each other, and
which seem to encode all your
lifelong experience. Its the same
for our articial RNNs.
The difference between our
n e u ra l n e t w o r k s ( N N s ) a n d
others is that we gured out ways
of making NNs deeper and more
powerful, especially RNNs, which
have feedback connections and
can, in principle, run arbitrary
algorithms or programs interacting with the environment. In
1991, I published on very deep
learners 1, 3 algorithms much
deeper than the eight-layer nets of
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the Ukrainian mathematician Alexey Grigorevich Ivakhnenko, who pioneered deep learning in
the 60s. By the early 90s, our RNNs could learn to solve many previously unlearnable problems.
Most current commercial NNs need teachers. They rely on a method called backpropagation,
whose present form was rst formulated by Seppo Linnainmaa in 19703 and applied to teacherbased supervised learning NNs in 1982 by Paul Werbos. However, backpropagation didnt work
well for deep NNs. In 1991, Sepp Hochreiter, my rst student working on my rst deep-learning
project, identied the reason for this failure: the so-called vanishing gradient problem. This
was then overcome by a now widely used deep learning RNN called long short-term memory
(LSTM) developed in my labs since the early 90s2,3. In 2009, LSTM became the rst RNN to win
international pattern-recognition contests, through the eforts of Alex Graves, another former
student. The LSTM principle has become a basis of much of whats now called deep learning.
When people ask if I have a demo, my answer is: Do you have a smartphone? Because since
mid-2015, Googles speech recognition has been based on LSTM trained by our connectionist
temporal classication. This dramatically improved Google Voice not only by up to ten per
cent, but by almost 50 per cent now available to billions of smartphone users.
Microsofts recent ImageNet 2015 winner also uses LSTM-related ideas. The Chinese search
giant Baidu is building on our methods, such as CTC. Apple explained at its recent WWDC 2016
developer conference how it is using LSTM to improve iOS. Google is applying the rather universal
LSTM not only to speech recognition but also to natural language-processing, machine translation, image caption generation and other elds. Eventually it will end up as one huge LSTM.
AlphaGo, the program that beat the best human Go player, was made by DeepMind, which is
inuenced by our former students: two of DeepMinds rst four members came from my lab.
True AI goes beyond merely imitating teachers. This explains the interest in unsupervised learning (UL). There are two types of UL: passive and active. Passive UL is
simply about detecting regularities in observation streams. This means learning to encode
data with fewer computational resources, such as space and time and energy, or data
compression through predictive coding, which can be
achieved to a certain extent by backpropagation, and
can facilitate subsequent supervised learning.1
Active UL is more sophisticated than passive UL: it is about
learning to shape the observation stream through action
sequences that help the learning agent gure out how the
1. Schmidhuber, J. (1992).
world works and what can be done in it. Active UL explains
Learning complex,
all kinds of curious and creative behaviour in art and music
extended sequences
using the principle of
and science and comedy4, and we have already built simple
history compression.
articial scientists based on approximations thereof. There
Neural Computation,
is no reason why machines cannot be curious and creative.
4(2):234242.
2 Hochreiter, S. and
Kids and some animals are still smarter than our best
Schmidhuber, J.
self-learning robots. But I think that within a few year well
(1997). Long Shortbe able to build an NN-based AI (an NNAI) that incrementally
Term Memory. Neural
Computation, 9(8):1735
learns to become at least as smart as a little animal, curiously
1780. Based on TR FKIand creatively learning to plan, reason and decompose a wide
207-95, TUM (1995).
variety of problems into quickly solvable sub-problems.
3. Schmidhuber, J.
(2015). Deep learning
Once animal-level AI has been achieved, the move towards
in neural networks:
human-level AI may be small: it took billions of years to evolve
An overview. Neural
smart animals, but only a few millions of years on top of that
Networks, 61, 85-117.
4. Schmidhuber, J.
to evolve humans. Technological evolution is much faster
(2010). Formal Theory
than biological evolution, because dead ends are weeded
of Creativity, Fun, and
out much more quickly. Once we have animal-level AI, a few
Intrinsic Motivation
(1990-2010). IEEE
years or decades later we may have human-level AI, with truly
Transactions on
limitless applications. Every business will change and all of
Autonomous Mental
civilisation will change. Jrgen Schmidhuber is appearing at
Development,
WIRED2016 on November 3-4. wiredevent.co.uk/wired-2016
2(3): 230-247, 2010.
T H E I L LU S T R AT E D E X P E R I M E N T
Controlling one robot is easy, but making more than 1,000 work together sounds impossible.
In 2014, Harvard robotics researcher Mike Rubenstein decided to try
BIOLOGY
THE APP
THAT
LOOKS FOR
AUTISM
Toddlers who see
something amusing
usually smile and look at
their parents to share
the experience. If a child
takes too long to react,
that could be a sign of
autism. In hospitals,
psychiatrists are trained
to spot symptoms.
Now researchers at
Duke University, North
Carolina, want to bring
those skills to parents.
Using Apples
ResearchKit, the
Autism&Beyond group
created an app that can
screen children. It is
made up of videos that
provoke stimuli,
says lead researcher
Guillermo Sapiro. As the
kid watches, the devices
camera analyses the
reaction. The app
gauges if the childs
response is in line with
a regular pattern. One
goal is early diagnosis:
autism can be identified
at 18 months, yet the
average age of
detection is four. The
data collected from
screening more than
2,000 children could
also help identify
symptoms. We
wondered if we could
discover new patterns,
Sapiro says. But
those findings are
as yet unpublished.
Gian Volpicelli
autismandbeyond.
researchkit.duke.edu
Q&A
ALIEN WORLDS
ON EARTH
To better understand life on other
planets, Louisa Preston runs analogue
missions a little closer to home
WIRED: What are you researching?
Louisa Preston: Im studying diferent
environments across Earth, like
sub-glacial volcanoes, ancient rivers
and impact craters, which look like
what might be on Mars. On Earth,
these types of environments have
extreme-loving organisms that can live
in harsh conditions that may have
the potential to live on Mars today,
or to have lived there in the past. So
Im studying them on Earth to gure
out how they could survive on Mars.
How do you define what youre
looking for?
The good thing about looking for
organisms that might live on Mars is
that chances are, theyre going to be
quite simple organisms like bacteria,
which means theres only a certain
number were looking at. Ones that
can survive the cold, extreme radiation,
or acid conditions those, we are
particularly interested in.
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Embryonic fish
help us learn about
our own brains
Researchers are examining how
blood-brain barriers form
This image shows
the developing
vascular system
of an embryonic
zebrafish, a
reliable model
organism for
studying brain
development
in humans.
Researchers at
Brown University
are using these
fish to examine
how the bloodbrain barrier forms,
an element thats
essential for
brain health.
Specifically,
theyre looking
at how its ability
to function may
be disrupted
by exposure
to genetic and
chemical changes,
or environmental
contaminants,
with trickle-down
effects for
the brain. EB
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MUSTAFA SULEYMAN
Co-founder of Google
DeepMind and head of
applied AI, Suleyman
oversees projects
to simulate brain-like
neural networks.
JESSICA O MATTHEWS
Matthews founded
Uncharted Play,
an energy startup that
can turn almost
any moving object into
a power source.
YVES ROSSY
Professional pilot
Rossy became the
first man in aviation
history to fly with a
jet-powered wing
strapped to his back.
PETER PIOT
Director of the London
School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine,
Piot helped identify
the Ebola virus, and
researches HIV/AIDS.
REGINA CATRAMBONE
The co-founder of
Migrant Offshore Aid
Station a searchand-rescue charity
for Mediterranean
migrants in distress.
ABDALAZIZ ALHAMZA
A Syrian in exile, he
co-founded a group of
activists who use
citizen journalism
to expose the terror of
Daesh in Syria.
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In November, WIRED publishes our fth annual trends brieng, a standalone print
and digital magazine in which our community of inuencers and writers predicts
whats coming next in the sectors afecting our lives, from technology to science,
government, business and security. Turn the page for a sample of what youll discover.
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BUSINESS
By Rory Sutherland
Rory
Sutherland is
vice chairman
of Ogilvy &
Mather Group
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IMMERSIVE TECH
VR will allow us to
live in another world
of our own design
Artists and creatives will finally get
to inhabit bespoke digital realms
By Philip Rosedale
Philip
Rosedale is
the creator of
Second Life
and founder of
High Fidelity
ENTERTAINMENT
By Olivia Solon
Olivia Solon
is a freelance
technology
and science
journalist
108
EMPLOYMENT
Professionals,
the algorithm
is on its way
The games up: banking and legal
jobs now belong to computers
By Ben Hammersley
Ben
Hammersley
is an author
and TV
broadcaster
MARKETS
We need to act
now to stop wealth
concentration
Economics needs to be reinvented
with a focus away from the privileged
By Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad
Yunus
was awarded
the Nobel
Peace Prize for
founding
Grameen Bank
110
NETWORKS
Faster internet
speeds will upend
our urban spaces
The connected street will re-imagine
travel, jobs and housing in our cities
By Dan Doctoroff
Dan Doctoroff
is CEO of
Sidewalk Labs
in New York
BUSINESS STRATEGY
Develop a messy
tactic and confuse
your opponents
Try a cocktail of incoherence,
recklessness and improvisation
By Tim Harford
Tim Harford
is the author of
Messy: How to
be Creative
and Resilient
in a TidyMinded World
112
MEDICINE
How to map
the next Ebola
outbreak
Smartphones will speed up
tracking infectious diseases
By Jeremy Farrar
Jeremy Farrar
is director of
the Wellcome
Trust in London
PRODUCTIVITY
By Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely
is the James B
Duke professor
of psychology
and behavioural
economics
at Duke
University,
North Carolina
114
FINANCE
By Charlie Burton
Charlie Burton
is a WIRED
contributor and
commissioning
editor for GQ
POST-REALITY
Coming soon:
the end of the purely
physical experience
The more we live in a virtual world,
the more real it becomes
By Wendellen Li
Wendellen Li
is co-founder
and CEO of
Elsewhere
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F U T U R E O F AV I AT I O N L I E S
WITH CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES
AT 4 : 0 5 A M ,
A PL ANE TOUCHED
D O W N AT A L
B AT E E N E X E C U T I V E
AIRPORT IN ABU
DHABI. IT CAME IN
S L O W LY, N U D G I N G
50KPH AS ITS
I N S E C T- L I K E
FRAME DESCENDED
OUT OF THE
P R E - D AW N S K Y
AND EASED ON TO
T H E R U N W AY.
The aircraft, called Solar Impulse 2,
had own 42,438km in 558 hours and
seven minutes, becoming the first
manned solar-powered plane to
circumnavigate the globe. Its pilot,
Bertrand Piccard, emerged from the
tiny cockpit smiling as camera ashes
red. Piccard and fellow pilot Andr
Borschberg had just completed a bold
and challenging mission: for more than
16 months, with a ground crew of
around 60 people, the Solar Impulse
project had battled technical, meteorological and bureaucratic challenges
to complete the journey and return to
Abu Dhabi without using a drop of fuel.
But even before he landed, Piccard
knew his mission was far from over.
To be heard, you need to be rich or
famous, and I cannot be rich, says
Piccard, 58, when WIRED visits his home
in the hills above Lutry, Switzerland, in
September 2016. The Solar Impulse
gave me fame, so people listened to me.
Its hard not to. Piccard is as engaging
as he is adventurous. He speaks deliberately, leaning forward and xing your
gaze, his blue eyes surrounded by ne
lines. It was my goal from the start when
I initiated Solar Impulse: I wanted to
have a credible tool to show clean technologies can achieve the impossible.
Piccard is the initiator, chairman and
co-pilot of Solar Impulse and its success
PHOTOGRAPHY: EYEVINE
O N J U LY 26 , 2 0 1 6
PA G E 1 2 3
PA G E 1 2 5
B E L O W Bertrand Piccard in his
home near Lausanne, Switzerland,
where he has brought together
memorabilia celebrating his
grandfathers, fathers and his
own adventures. On the cabinet to
the right is a Jean-Luc Picard
action figure the Star Trek
character was named after
Bertrands father, Jacques. By the
window is a model of Professeur
Tournesol from Tintin he was
based on Bertrands grandfather
S O L A R F L I G H T P T. I I
F LY I N G
ON THE
EDGE
I T ' S O N E T H I N G T O F LY C L O S E T O E A R T H
A N O T H E R T O R E A C H T H E S TA R T O F S PA C E .
RAPHAL DOMJAN PL ANS TO PILOT A SOL ARP O W E R E D A I R C R A F T I N T O T H E S T R AT O S P H E R E
PA G E 1 2 7
B E L O W When it is completed in 2018,
SolarStratos will have a 24.8-metre
wingspan and weigh just 450kg
INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
IN Y VERDONL E S - B A I N S,
S W I T Z E R L A N D,
A SMALL TEAM OF
ADVENTURERS IS
P R E PA R I N G F O R
A MISSION TO THE
E D G E O F S PA C E .
If they succeed, their solar-powered
aircraft will y higher than any plane
before it and show that renewable
energy can not only match fossil fuels
but surpass them. Our goal is to be the
highest plane ever, not only solar and
electric, says Raphal Domjan, 44,
initiator and pilot of SolarStratos.
Echoes of Bertrand Piccard are everywhere: both are Swiss, both are based
near Lausanne and both believe
adventure can inspire people to take
action to tackle climate change.
With this project we take technology
you can nd in the supermarket and we
push it to the limit, Domjan says. If a
solar-powered plane can take a human
being to the edge of space and back
again, he continues, it could send a very
strong message about the potential of
clean technology. We still have so many
things to explore. Maybe exploration
can be used to protect our planet.
Domjans mission is a daring one. In
late 2018 he plans to climb into SolarStratos and take two hours and 30
minutes to ascend to 25,000m. There,
on the edge of space, he hopes to spend
15 minutes in the stratosphere before
slowly spiralling back down to Earth.
He will do so without using any fuel.
Its like the Icarus ight, Domjan jokes.
But I hope I will not lose my wings.
Founded in March 2014, SolarStratos
has already raised $5 million (3.8m)
from sponsors and work is underway to
manufacture the experimental aircraft.
A further $5 million will be required to
get the mission of the ground. Solarpowered aviation specialist PC-Solar
is expected to deliver the completed
aircraft by the end of the year.
Everything about the project is incongruous: Domjan himself is understated
PHOTOGRAPHY: AORTA
ON THE EDGE OF AN
PA G E 1 2 9
small scooter. To get up to 25,000m
they need all the help they can get.
Domjan himself will have to lose ten
kilos before take-of. We have to be
careful with the weight, its a big, big
challenge, Domjan says. Another big
challenge: keeping Domjan alive. At
25,000m there is two per cent of the
oxygen available at sea level, temperatures plummet to -70C and air
pressure falls to 0.019 atmospheres. At
these altitudes Domjan will have to
wear a pressurised spacesuit to keep
10
SpaceShipTwo
I L L U S T R AT I O N : J O E W A L D R O N
1
CityBird
PA G E 1 3 1
9
Bloostar
8
Boom
4
EHang 184
7
Airlander 10
5
Jetpack
2
3
Prime Air
Zip
PA G E 1 3 3
6
Carplane
4
VC200
FACTS
1
CityBird length:
24 metres
Weight: 12,344kg
CentAirStation
and CityBird,
by Glasgow
School of Arts
and Bauhaus
Luftfahrt
Zip, by
Zipline
4
Maximum attitude:
7,000m
Maximum speed:
100kph
Passengers:
1 (plus pilot)
Prime Air,
by Amazon
Paul Misener, vice president for
innovation at Amazon, wants his drones
to transform the retail experience:
order an item online and have your
purchase on your doorstep within 30
minutes, via a hovering drop-of UAV.
Prime Air is currently being tested
in Cambridgeshire under restricted
conditions. (Eyewitnesses have spotted
drones flying near Amazons development centre; the company has
already revealed that it has tested more
than a dozen prototypes recently.)
Drop-offs in gardens in rural areas
already work. However, the perfect
drone for delivering in urban environments is still a work-in-progress. One
of the challenges is noise: they need to
operate as quietly as possible.
Amazon has already set standards
for its future aircraft: they need to be
able to carry up to 2.2kg (very few
Amazon packages weigh more) and
be autonomous for up to 24km.
Looking like a cross between a
helicopter and an aeroplane, the latest
concept takes off vertically and is
brought up to speed by a tail rotor.
One thing that does need guring out
is where the drones will actually
be allowed to fly. At present, there
are very few regulations in place
worldwide, but Misener imagines a
60- to 120-metre-wide air corridor
exclusively reserved for his drones.
PA G E 1 3 5
VC200,
by e-volo
5
Maximum altitude:
5,200m
Span:
2.40m
Maximum speed:
315kph
Jetpack, by
Yves Rossy
Carplane, by
John Brown
Airlander 10,
by HAV
Boom, by
Boom
Technology
Two years ago, entrepreneur Blake
Scholl quit Groupon to pursue his
dream of supersonic flight. His
startup, Boom Technology, wants to
construct a jet to change air traffic.
No aviation company has tried to
break the sound barrier since
Concorde. Why did you decide to do it?
Blake Scholl: Because it simply
doesnt make any sense that we are
making technological breakthroughs
in all areas except aeroplanes, which
are still travelling at the same speed
as they did 50 years ago.
Why havent Airbus or Boeing
taken up the challenge?
They have other things to worry about.
6
Boeing and Airbus are in a price war
Maximum altitude:
in all model classes. The next techno4,570m
logical innovations therefore come
Top speed:
from startups like ours.
222kph
Concorde had problems finding
Passengers:
1 (plus pilot)
sufficient customers willing to pay
16,000 for a ticket. Whats Booms
7
business model?
Maximum altitude: The basic problem with Concorde was
4,880m
its astronomical consumption of
Top speed:
kerosene. The Boom will be 30 per cent
148kph
more eicient. Thats not easy to do,
Maximum flight
but it is possible. And well construct
time:
5 days (manned)
an aeroplane with the right amount
PHOTOGRAPHY: ALAMY
PA G E 1 3 7
8
Cruising altitude:
18,000m
Top speed:
2,700kph
Passengers: 40
10
Bloostar, by
Zero 2 Infinity
Spaniard Jos Lpez-Urdiales wants
to be the rst person to use a balloon
to hoist a rocket system into the stratosphere, 18km above the equator.
Then we cut the cord and the rocket
falls for a moment just like a bomb in
a ghter jet, he says. The rocket then
ignites and shoots further into orbit,
eventually releasing a payload of
small satellites into space.
Zero 2 Innity, and its high-altitude
Bloostar balloon, ofer an alternative
method to the way tech companies
shoot communication satellites into
9
Maximum altitude:
30,000m
Ascent speed:
17kph
Passengers:
4 (plus two pilots)
10
Maximum altitude:
110,000m
Top speed:
4,300kph
Passengers:
6 (plus two pilots)
10
SpaceShipTwo,
by Virgin Galactic
GREEN
PA G E 1 3 9
MACHINE
BY KAI SCHCHTELE
P H O T O G R A P H Y: C H R I S T O F F E R R U D Q U I S T
HY4
Built by an international team
of experts, the HY4 is claimed
to be the worlds first zeroemission passenger aircraft.
FUEL
A hydrogen tank sits in
the fuselage behind the
passengers. A single fuel
load should last 1,500km.
PROPELLER
The propeller on the central
shaft is the aircrafts only
form of propulsion. It can
accelerate up to 200kph.
PA G E 1 4 3
<< COCKPIT
The pilot sits in one of the
two cabins and can monitor
the performance of the fuel
cell on a display.
LANDING GEAR
A lithium battery provides
the power needed to reach
take-off speed. After that,
the fuel cell takes over.
ENGINE DETAIL
The fuel cell relies on
a filter, along with a
complex system of
coolant and air hoses.
ENGINE MAINTENANCE
The engine behind the
propeller has two chambers
which direct the cooling air into
the interior of the system.
HANGAR
Aircraft manufacturer
Pipistrels production area. The
aircraft will be transferred to
Stuttgart for its maiden flight.
PA G E 1 4 5
<< REFUELLING
One of the advantages of
fuel cells is that refuelling
only takes between
three and eight minutes.
AIRBORNE
If all goes to plan, the HY4
will soon be carrying out
shuttle flights over Germany,
as this CGI shows.
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BY
JAMES TEMPERTON
ILLUSTRATION:
BOTS
he app boom is over. There are now more than 4.2 million
apps available for Android and iOS, but three-quarters of
American smartphone users download a grand total of zero
new apps per month. They might be mostly free and easy to
access, but apps are struggling to make it on to our phones
and tablets. According to comScore, we spend the majority
of our screen time using just three apps, with the average
American spending almost half their time in just one. The
most popular type of app? Messaging. With the eyeballs
of the world glued to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger,
WeChat and Skype, developers have started turning
once-simple chat apps into complex ecosystems. And at the
centre of this change is a horde of subservient bots.
Its Friday, November 2, 2018. Youve just walked into your
kitchen after a long week. Play Etta James, you say. At Last
starts playing throughout the house. Your phone vibrates
in your pocket; a notification on the screen reads Return
flight to Toronto now 220 per person. Book? You type
Yes and confirm your identity using the phone's thumbprint
reader. You open the kitchen cupboard and scan for ingredients
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I EXPECT A BOT
TO TALK TO ME
IN A WAY THATS
MUCH BETTER
THAN A PERSON
versions of branching, he
argues. Libin agrees: There are
some misconceptions in the
popular imagination about what
this is going to be like, he says.
Probably the main one is
that bots should talk like people.
If I engage with a bot to do
something, I dont expect it to
behave like a human, I dont
expect it to talk to me as a
person would. I expect it to talk
to me in a way thats much
better than what a person
would. I dont want to mimic a
human experience I want to
have a much better experience.
One of Libins investments is
Growbot, a messaging bot that
listens for and encourages
praise on Slack. The bot is a participant in the conversation
that adds structure and functionality, he explains. When
Growbot spots praise it reacts, keeps a tally of whos saying
what and compiles a report for managers. The company has
raised $1.7 million (1.3m) in two rounds of seed funding and is
used by more than 2,000 companies, from Starbucks to Londonbased advertising agency Spongecell. Slack, with its focus on
teams at work, has become an early pacesetter in an industry
still searching for its killer product. In July, it announced a $2
million investment in 14 startups working on bots for its
platform. The money is part of a bigger $80 million investment
vehicle announced in December 2015 featuring Accel, Andreessen
Horowitz and Index Ventures. Since launching in August 2013,
Slacks growth has been rapid. It has three million daily active
users and 930,000 paying subscribers. We have some bots that
totally reside within Slack, says April Underwood, vice president
of product at Slack. These bots, she explains, are helping people
to complete irritating tasks that arent core to their job: le
expense reports, get budget approval or order new oice supplies.
Slack allows bots to join the conversation and solve those tasks
in a quick way from the application teams that are already in.
Where Slack has already gone, others will follow. The kind of
behaviours that you see in Slack are going to be fundamental
to all the Microsoft platforms, argues OReilly. Its how youre
going to invoke actions on a computer whether thats a typed
or a spoken conversation probably doesnt matter. A bet against
bots would, according to OReilly, be totally stupid.
For bots on Slack, simplicity is key. A lot of these bots right
now dont have to be super sophisticated. They can start from
very simple commands, says Underwood. This means you
dont have a conversation with a bot you just tell it what
to do. Think of them not as people but almost like service
animals, says Libin. A sheepdog is super-humanly good at
its job: its going to herd sheep much better than any person
could. But it isnt clever. Its something that is fantastically
good, much better than any human could possibly be. Take
Envoy, a Slack bot that sends direct messages to employees
whenever someone arrives at the oice to see them. It solves
a simple, non-core job task in a simple way, without staf needing
to install and learn a new system. Founded in San Francisco
in 2013, Envoy has raised $20.31 million in three rounds from
investors including Reddit co-founder and executive chairman
Alexis Ohanian, and Jeremy Stoppelman, co-founder and
CEO of Yelp. If we can do that a thousand times over for all
the things that need to happen inside the typical workplace
every day then I do think the experience of being a
worker is going to get better and better, Underwood says.
Outside the workplace, bots have even greater potential to
change how we engage with technology. A lot of people I interact
with believe they now type more words than they speak, says
Sarah Guo, an investor working on the enterprise team at Greylock
Partners. Thats a fundamental shift, for most of our communications to be digitally captured. And yet most of our software
today doesnt take advantage of the rich data we are creating in
our constant communications, instead requiring us to do structured, unnatural data entry. Youve been unwittingly interacting
with a bot since 1998 its called Google search. So why has
software been so stubbornly skeuomorphic? Why should ordering
a pizza involve downloading an app, signing up for an account
and then nding the menu option for extra chillis? The great
promise of bots is that they will break down the stubborn barrier
between human and machine and make scores of apps redundant.
According to OReilly, the switch
to conversational interfaces will
be rapid: Will I be pawing at the
screen of a 2019 Tesla? No, I
wont. Ill be talking to it.
In the space of just three
months, Facebook, Google and
Microsoft collectively red the
starting pistol in the next big
platform race. In March,
Microsoft launched and
open-sourced its developer tools
for making bots; in April,
Facebook announced its own bot
developer platform based
around its Messenger app; and
in May, Google showed off
Assistant, a new AI personal
assistant. But the west is playing
catch-up. Messaging platforms
in China, unconstrained by an
established app economy, are
already showing the way.
Weixin and can now understand text, images, video and voice.
In December 2015, Xiaoices familiar female voice started
presenting the morning weather on the popular news channel
Dragon TV. Shes since moved on to reading the news and has
fronted the channels 2016 Olympics coverage.
Microsofts other big bot experiment, Tay, was less successful.
The bot, based on Xiaoice, was designed to mimic the language
patterns of a 19-year-old American girl and learn from interacting with humans on Twitter. Released on March 23, 2016,
within a day Tay having learned from the worst social-media
has to ofer was spouting racist and sexually violent messages.
Two days later, after more than 96,000 ofensive tweets were
deleted from Tay, the experiment was taken offline. Undeterred,
in July Microsoft announced a partnership with the Singapore
government to develop a bot to handle public services. If youre
a citizen of Singapore you can interact with a bot that works
on behalf of the Singapore government. It can answer questions,
you can register complaints, you can interact with a bot representative of the government, explains Connell.
In the west, its Amazon that has had the surprise success.
Amazon Echo, launched in November 2014, uses a conversational interface called Alexa. Want to listen to Daft Punk? Say,
Alexa, play Daft Punk. Want to set a timer to boil an egg while
the music is playing? Say, Alexa, set a timer for four minutes.
Want to order an Uber? Say, Alexa, ask Uber to request a ride.
Amazons bot is always listening and can understand commands.
In June 2015, Amazon opened up Echo to developers within a
year, 1,400 new skills (Amazons jargon for app) had added
support. Unlike Microsofts Xiaoice, which tries to imitate human
interaction, Echo follows the same dumb bot principles laid
down by Weixin. Youre not going to have a conversation with
it, you just tell it what to do. Speech is more game-changing
than people realise, argues OReilly. Its been around a long
time with Siri and Google Now and all kinds of applications
powered by Nuance, but, to my mind, Alexa and Amazon Echo
are game-changing in the same way that the iPhone was
game-changing. Google, seemingly, agrees. In May 2016, it
announced Home, a voice-enabled wireless speaker in the mould
of Amazon Echo. Once you have a device thats always listening,
you have a diferent relationship with speech, says OReilly.
In October 2009, Apple launched in-app purchases for the
App Store. The software industry hasnt looked back. In the
second half of 2013 alone, Candy Crush Saga made $1.04 billion
from microtransactions. More recently, Pokmon GO, Niantics
runaway-success game, made $35 million from in-app purchases
in two weeks. According to analysts IDC, revenue from mobile
apps, not including advertising, was around $34.2 billion in 2015.
For bots, the opportunity could be even greater. Bots have
emerged as a high-potential channel of distribution for mobile
services, says Guo. Not only do messaging apps have a captive
audience, the cost of developing bots is lower than for apps. The
progression from trivial to sophisticated is going to happen
faster, says Underwood. App developers have been able to
learn from the introduction of prior interfaces because it wasnt
long ago that mobile apps came on the scene. It took a few years
in mobile. With bots I think it will happen in half the time.
Libin, one of the bot industrys leading investors, has no
doubts about its transformative potential. There are going to
be 100 million bots. Its going to be similar to the app gold-rush,
but magnied, he says. As with apps, the vast majority of bots
will be pointless, he argues. But the few hundred that are
actually really good are going to be world-changing.
A LOT OF PEOPLE
BELIEVE THEY
NOW TYPE MORE
WORDS THAN
THEY SPEAK
president of Microsofts Bing
division. With its new bot
obsession, Microsoft is also
looking to China, where it has
scored an unlikely success of its
own. Since it launched in May
2014, more than 40 million
people have held more than 20
billion conversations with
Xiaoice, its artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot. We
started with a theory: can we
maintain a conversation with
another human? says Connell,
who also heads the engineering
team that powers the bot. A key
measure of the bots success was
how long it could keep the
conversation going. With our
first version we were at 12
conversations per session. Three
years later were now up to 23
on average. The bot lives on
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Al Rifai founded Dubaibased Fetchr, an app
that uses mobile
geolocation to deliver
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NICK BRACKENBURY
The former Ogilvy
account director
founded NearSt in
London, connecting
shoppers with nearby
high-street inventory.
JEFF CHAPIN
Chapin co-founded
Casper, a US
mattress firm that
has embraced
radical design and
delivery methods.
RANDY DEAN
Dean is chief business
officer of Sentient
Technologies, a Silicon
Valley firm using AI to
tackle problems faced
by large retailers.
MICHAEL FEINDT
Blue Yonder, Feindts
UK- and Germanybased startup, builds
forecasting tools that
allow retailers to
optimise supply chains.
JODY MEDICH
Director of design at
Singularity University
Labs in San Jose,
Medichs AR and VR
tools have potentially
huge retail applications.
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Jewellery
Chalets
Snow
Horology
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Fetish
Fashion
Turntables
Food
Watches
Automobiles
Leisure
The Aston
Martin DB11s
innovative
Aeroblade is an
invisible spoiler
that works by
channelling air
through the
cars bodywork
>>
DEV I A L E T G O L D
P H ANT O M
In 2015, French
high-end audio
brand Devialet
brought out
a formidable
wireless multiroom
speaker called
the Phantom.
Hewn from
aluminium and
polycarbonate, the
speaker hit 750W
while its pimped
brother, the Silver
Phantom, topped
out at 3,000W.
For some reason
the company
has decided this
power wasnt quite
sufficient so here
is the new Gold
Phantom. It pushes
out an astonishing
4,500W, making
it six times more
powerful than the
original. Frequency
response has also
been improved
to 14Hz at the low
end, while high
frequency range
has been upped to
27kHz, thanks to
an upgraded pure
titanium tweeter.
The 22-carat rosegold-plated finish
on the sides is
the final luxurious
touch. 2,590
devialet.com
010 | TRANSPORT
From the Tarmac to the clouds, here are four of the most advanced vehicles on the market
WIRED readers
will be familiar
with todays
technology
entrepreneurs
desire to
disrupt. But
would you really
want your air
travel to undergo
a similarly
reckless redux?
According to
French aerospace
engineer David
Loury: yes,
probably. For the
past ten years,
the founder
and CEO of
Cobalt Aircraft
has pursued
his singleminded mission
to change the
face of the
private-aircraft
experience with
a new category
of light planes
with sublime
clean lines and
a gorgeous 320
bubble canopy
inspired by
classic fighter
jets, the Valkyrie
has a canard
configuration,
with a forewing
acting as an
aerodynamic
fuse to prevent
stalling. cobaltaircraft.com
SP EC
PRICE
$595,000
CAPACITY
Five
(including pilot)
ENGINE
Continental
TSIOF-550-D
turbocharged
six-cylinder
TOP SPEED
260 knots
RANGE
2,656km
012 | TRANSPORT
Newly formed
Montreal bike
manufacturer
LITO Green Motion
is billing this as
the worlds first
all-electric luxury
superbike. Where
there was once an
engine is now a
series of polymer
lithium batteries.
These can power
the formidable
two-wheeler up
to 190kph with
just the rush
of wind and an
addictive hum as
the soundtrack.
But the designers
havent stopped
there, going
above and beyond
with thoughtful
and extravagant
extras such as
carbon-fibre
bodywork, plus
an integrated
touchscreen GPS
that tells you
if you have the
necessary battery
charge to get
there. It will even
switch modes to
save electricity,
based on your
riding style.
soraelectric
superbike.com
SP EC
PRICE
$104,000
POWERTRAIN
Aircraft-grade
aluminium
TOP SPEED
190kph
RANGE
200km (city);
>100km (motorway)
CHARGE TIME
Nine hours
As a boy, I picked up
an extra paper round
in Petersfield to save
for flying lessons.
Richard Pillans, Boeing UK Chief Test Pilot
As a boy, I picked up an extra paper round in Petersfield to save for flying lessons. I managed to get my pilots
licence before I could even drive a car. Its freeing to get up in the air and see the world from that perspective.
Even though I left the British military I still feel like Im part of it as a civilian test pilot. The data we gather proves
the Chinooks are safe before the frontline fly them. We feel good about supporting the team overseas.
EV O YA C HT S E V O 4 3
Spend enough
time strolling
the waterfronts
of Monte Carlo
and youll soon
notice a trend in
bespoke megayachts: fold-out
cabin balconies.
Given all the
Sun decks and
wet bars already
available above
deck, this may
initially seem
superfluous, but
this 43-foot (13m)
day-cruisers
patented
XTensions
bathing platform,
whose sides slide
outwards in less
than 30 seconds,
extends its teaklaid sunbathing
and boozing
surface area by
40 per cent. Just
a tap of its iPhone
app will increase
the beam to
6.3 metres. The
concept is yet to
see fruition, but
given the Meds
scant mooring
availability, boats
like this are sure
to be in demand.
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PRICE
tbc
ENGINE OPTIONS
2x Volvo Penta
IPS 600 (total of
870hp) / 2x Volvo
Penta IPS 500
(total of 740hp) /
2x Cummins 550
straight shaft
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LENGTH
13.04m
UNLADEN
DISPLACEMENT
11,300kg
CAPACITY
12 people (two
cabins, one
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Each frame is
calibrated to the
buyers size
before its cured
in the autoclave.
Dimples on
every windfacing surface,
meanwhile,
improve the drag
coefficient by
ten per cent.
Its difficult
to imagine a lighter
or faster bike.
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Torayca M46J
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carbon fibre
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737g
PEDALS
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018 | FINERY
Shes better-known for her breathtaking architecture, but one of Zaha Hadids final
creative outputs was smaller in stature a jewellery collection for Georg Jensen
Imogen Belfield
Belfield refers
to her jewellery
as sculpture. Its
no exaggeration,
although her nuggety,
natural-looking creations
seem to more resemble
stalactite formations rather
than anything sculpted by
a hand. Her Galactica Finger
Glove resembles the inside
of a deep-space asteroid.
imogenbelfield.com
Ute Decker
Its never clear
whether you
should wear
one of Deckers
creations or put them in a
display case. Off the body,
her bracelets look like a childs
scribbles made 3D; once
worn, they spiral elegantly.
utedecker.com
020 | ARCHITECTURE
Main: Saunders Architectures V House is one of just 44 homes being built in Carraig Ridge in Banff, Canada
022 | ARCHITECTURE
Below: the V House incorporates a viewing deck along one side, linking the master bedroom and living area
1.
C A R R A I G R I D G E V H O U S E , B A N F F, C A N A D A
S A U N D E R S A R C HI T E CTS
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2.
S P L IT VI E W MO UNTA I N LO DGE , BU SKERU D,NORWAY
R E I U LF RAMSTAD ARCHITE CTS
A family chalet designed to exploit the best views of the Hallingdal Valley, a
resort in the centre of Norway, about 100km north of Oslo, the Split View Lodge
ofers up landscape vistas through the twin gables that fork of the main living
space. Four bedrooms are set in the main body of the building (with a small
annexe alongside), with the V-shaped living area branching of to create those
dramatic views. Reiulf Ramstad has disrupted the more traditional forms
associated with the ski lodge, rendering the results with typically thorough
Norwegian craftsmanship and carpentry. reiulframstadarchitects.com
024 | ARCHITECTURE
3.
C H A L ET A N Z R E ,
A N Z R E ,
S WI T Z ERL A N D
S EA R C H A R C HI T E C T S
SeARCHs Chalet Anzre sits among a thicket of trad chalets and apartment buildings in the
Swiss resort of Anzre. Taking inspiration from the regions traditional farmhouses and
the monumental 17th century Grand Chalet of Rossinire, this private house was created
for a Dutch client to replace the spec design sold with the site. The main living space is a
concrete-coated temple with stunning views. The plot includes a garage complex lower
down the mountain, linked to the chalet above by an underground walkway and elevator.
The principal faades are broken up by geometric divisions that reference the main elements
of the house private apartment, main living area and owners top floor eyrie. search.nl
PHOTOGRAPHY: OSSIP
During the summer, cooler air is drawn up from the concrete lower level to adjust the temperature in the upper part of the chalet
4.
H AD AWAY H O USE ,
WH I S T L E R , C A N A D A
PAT K A U A R C HI T E C TS
This bold reinvention of the traditional British Columbian cabin was designed by Vancouver-based Patkau Architects for a businessman client. The Hadaway House is located in
the BC resort of Whistler and is conceived as an origami-esque deconstruction of the
conventional chalet form. The angular faade appears to fold into itself, planned like a
rhombus-shaped wedge that fans out to provide sweeping mountain views. Ipe-wood
cladding and glazing bars are all set at a variety of angles, while the internal floor levels
also step down and up within the large living area, with built-in furniture blending into the
ribbon-like walls. The jagged forms are partly shaped by the strict rules that determine how
snow must fall from roofs, and where it can land, creating a shape that the architects
emphasise through the relationship between inside, outside, roof, wall and floor. patkau.ca
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CHARGER SKIS
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Stealth black
and supremely
insulated with
PrimaLoft Silver
Down, a blend
of duck down
and quick drying
man-made fibres,
this jacket is
limited to 200
pieces. Key
features include
a watch window,
carbon-fibre zip
and a waterproof
membrane for
extra stretch
and first-class
breathability.
$3,999 kjus.com
Bespoke boots
mean longer,
comfier days on
the slopes, and
theres none finer
than the H1 from
the worlds oldest
boot company.
Each shoe is
custom-moulded
for a perfect
fit, with handstitched leather
inners, power
straps, buckle
attachments and
fur toe-liners.
Temperaturestable plastic
and a handmade
shock-absorbing
wooden board
helps improve ski
feel and minimise
vibrations on the
slopes. 1,100
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Engineered for
racers demanding
maximum
protection with
minimum weight,
the Avance MIPS
helmet consists
of a stiff TeXtreme
carbon shell and
two layers of
EP-Premium foam
that redirects
and absorbs
rotational energy
from impacts.
Each helmet can
be sculpted using
a 3D scanner for
the perfect fit.
$500 giro.com
Getting layers
right can be
a lottery, but
with the Kjus
7SPHERE
system you
can let the tech
decide. Its app
will suggest
the best
outfit based
on weather
conditions,
picking from
four jackets/
layers, pants
and two-inone gloves. All
layers interact
with each other
through a mix
of vents and
air-permeable
fabrics to
deliver cosy in
all conditions.
tbc kjus.com
These innovative
ski goggles from
Oakley promise
fog-free, pinsharp visibility
with added
comfort. Their
strap-mounted
battery pack and
internal micro
heating elements
(think a cars
rear-window
heater) will keep
your lenses
crystal clear,
whatever the
weather, for up
to six hours.
$tbc oakley.com
With a core
made using a
combination
of triaxial
fibreglass,
carbon-fibre
strips and
bamboo, PFD has
produced a ski
with phenomenal
flex that never
feels sloppy.
Thanks to the
102mm waist
and 280mm tip,
its built to carve
up any slope
in a variety of
conditions. 960
pfdskis.com
F O I L OR O-
CO LLE C T I O N
Inspired by the
Arpin clothing
worn by 50s polar
explorer Paul
Emile Victor, this
high-performance
line combines
traditional wool
spun from raw
fleeces at the
firms very own
alpine mill in
Sez with highspec PrimaLoft
insulation, fusing
classic style
with practicality.
NE R O S K I
- >>
Luxurious doesnt
come close to
describing these
skis from Italian
maker Foil.
Each made-tomeasure pair
is built using a
graphite nanotech base and
Quadriaxial
carbon stripes,
and comes
finished in a
veneer taken from
an 8,000-year-old
bog oak. Theyre
also topped with
14-carat goldplated bindings
and inlays, and
come with ski
poles also goldplated that
will fit the buyer
exactly. 50,000
poa arpin1817.com
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INMARSAT
SONY FRD-X1000V
CHAMONIX BLACK
A casual all-winter
boot designed for
the mountains,
but stylish enough
for slippery city
streets, the
Chamonix Black
is based on boots
from Rossignols
100-year-old
archive. They are
constructed using
waterproof leather
with a breathable
membrane
and Wintherm
insulation for
added warmth
without bulk. 350
X EST BINDING
This snowboard
binding is ultra
stiff but highly
responsive
for freeriders
looking to carve
up every inch of
the mountain.
The 28 per cent
carbon-fibre and
nylon baseplate
offers superlight cushioning,
and the heel cup
design ensures the
baseplate flexes
in harmony with
your legs to
minimise fatigue.
AIR B AG VE S T
The batterypowered
In&Motion POC
Airbag Vest is
undetectable
beneath your
jacket, but
monitors your
actions, detects
imbalance and
can inflate in
less than 100
milliseconds
in the event of
a fall to offer
injury-preventing
protection for
your hips and
upper body. 1,200
ISATP HONE 2
A satellite phone
for the price of a
smartphone, the
IsatPhone 2 offers
a guaranteed
phone signal from
anywhere on the
planet. Operating
at -20C to
+55C, it is dust-,
splash- and
shock-resistant,
comes loaded with
a prepaid SIM
and features 160
hours of standby.
An indispensable
back-country
accessory. 630
4K ACTION CAM
Give dramatic
alpine landscapes
and gnarly riding
the attention
they deserve with
this 100mbpsshooting Wi-Fi/
GPS camera.
HD/240p allows
perfect slowmotion capture
from the 170
panoramic ZEISS
Tessar lens, and
SteadyShot image
stabilisation
means hardpack
conditions wont
spoil the action.
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319 sony.co.uk
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028 | WATCHES
High in the Swiss mountains, a breakaway team from Audemars Piguet has changed
the centuries-old tradition of minute repeaters. The difference is loud and clear
030 | WATCHES
Below: Alain Petitpas, head of APs acoustic research lab, checks parts in an anechoic chamber
S T O R E S N AT I O N W I D E
S N O WA N D R O C K . C O M
032 | GEAR
W OR D S B Y C H RI S HA LL
P HOT OG R A P HY: S UN L E E
Whaletone is
to pianos what
Bugatti is to
cars: large, lavish
and not about to
compromise. The
three-metre by
two-metre Grand
Hybrid digital
piano uses Roland
processors with
amplifiers and
speakers from
Danish specialist
Scan-Speak to
YAR A UD I O Y- D E R S P E AK E R S
YAR condently
claims that its
Y-der speakers
blend into the
background when
playing. This
doesnt mean
these handsome
units disappear
before your eyes,
but rather their
design, which
eliminates any
parallel surfaces
to reduce
resonance,
places the
individual drivers
in such a way
as to render
the source
of the sound
immaterial.
Carbon-bre
elements
help get rid of
interference, and
the oor mounts
are adjustable
down to the
micrometre.
WIRED has
experienced
the awesome
power of the
these speakers,
and can conrm
that they are
among the best
on the market.
250,000
yaraudio.com
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stereo sound.
Each unit can
deliver 400W at
8 ohms or 800W
at 4 ohms (also
known as a lot),
and operates in
whats known as
class A conditions
for minimal
distortion.
marklevinson.com
$15,000 each
(two required for
stereo sound)
T7 Bluetooth Speaker
with Micro Matrix
Or in laymans terms,
it sounds great.
It has taken Bowers & Wilkins 50
years of acoustic knowhow to make
the T7. And thanks to high-resolution
streaming via Bluetooth aptX and an
incredible 18 hours battery life, youre
guaranteed best-in-class performance
wherever you are.
299.99
from authorised retailers
Buy direct from bowers-wilkins.co.uk/T7
Two-year warranty
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PHONE WITHIN A MONTH.
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038 | GEAR
P O R S C HE
DES I G N
S H I S HA 2 .0
Porsche Designs
online store has
all the brands
obvious accessories:
sunglasses,
watches, a
soundbar made
from the tailpipes
of a 911 GT3
(And why not?) But
it may surprise you
to learn the brand
also has created a
shisha pipe.
To be precise, this
is actually Porsche
Designs second
iteration. Totally
in keeping with an
Eames chair-strewn
Philippe Starck
apartment, this
73.5cm pipe is milled
from aluminium
with a blownglass chamber and
synthetic leather
pipe. Its ceramic
heating elements
are designed
to last for the
objects lifetime.
1,550 porschedesign.com
040 | GEAR
HAS S ELBL A D X 1 D
Hasselblads latest
mirrorless camera
packs a huge 50MP
medium-format
sensor in a body
the size of most
compact systems,
putting studioquality power in
a truly portable
725g package. With
a shutter speed
range of 1/2,000
of a second right
up to 60 minutes,
14 f-stops and ISO
rates up to 25,600,
youll struggle to
MONT BL ANC
U RBAN SP I R I T
MOT ORCY C L E
HELMET
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Until now, the
hardiest thing
Montblanc made
was probably
its leather rucksack
- and you wouldnt
get that wet just
because its too
nice. But the Urban
Spirit motorbike
helmet is pure
badass. Available
in full- and openfaced versions
(depending on
whether youre
feeling more
like a hitman or
an F-22 ghter
pilot), the helmet
is swaddled in
Montblanc leather
inside and out,
with the main outer
section concealing
a reective
underlayer. The
sole adornment
comes in the form
of the Montblanc
rounded star on
the forehead and
stitched into the
visor joins. tbc
montblanc.com
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G EE CA TR I O N
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LOUIS VUITTON
ROLLING
LUGGAGE BY
MARC NEWSON
Australian industrial
designer Marc
Newson has
updated the luxury
brands iconic
trunks, making them
lighter and more
spacious. Available
in three sizes,
the four-wheeled
suitcases key
innovation
comes from the
extendible handles,
which retract
into the outside
edge of the body,
rather than the
centre, which
results in increased
packing space. Its
an idea that makes
WIRED wonder
why it hasnt been
done before.
The smallest case
in the collection
weighs a mere
2.9kg, but features
13 per cent more
internal space than
similar bags. tbc
uk.louisvuitton.com
ETTINGER.CO.UK
Zucchetti
WIRED, however,
specialises in highis captivated
end bathroom taps;
by the mixers
Kos in whirlpool
geometric lines,
bathtubs and
angular beauty and
multifunctional
luxurious finish. If
shower-cabins
you want to splash
and Wosh is
out, its available
the result of a
in chrome,
collaboration
polished nickel
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Their mission
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statement is to
create products
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style statement.
Designer William
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bath and shower
mixer is Centred
on two notions:
formal complexity
and anti-minimal
inclinations.
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>>
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P HO TO GR AP HY: S UN L E E
048 | TEST
WORDS BY
KEN KESSLER
PHOTOGRAPHY:
SUN LEE
>>
An ICM survey in
April 2016 indicated
that nearly half of
the current wave
of vinyl buyers
dont even own
turntables and
many that do use a
sub-99 USB deck.
So, WIRED picked
three premium
alternatives, with
prices ranging
from under 800
to nearly 19,000.
Each offers
relative value for
money, backed
by companies with
real longevity.
P RO-JECT CL ASSIC
your standards
Resembling the
a performance
all-in-one decks of
ascend. Offered
thats impossible
in walnut, rosenut
or eucalyptus,
the Classics
top-plate, this
build quality is
and a cartridge
charming slab of
excellent, aided by
from Koetsu or
timeless simplicity.
is transcendent.
tonearm is carbon
techdas.jp
aluminium platter
TE CH D AS AI R FORCE III
is supplied with
a felt mat, and
SP EC
sound is punchy
SP EC
SPEEDS 33 1/3, 45
and 78rpm
MOTOR external
AC synchronous
motor
POWER
External box
SIZE 500mm x
360mm (chassis
and motor)
SPEEDS 33 1/3
and 45rpm
MOTOR Low-noise
AC type
POWER External
wall-wart
SIZE 460mm x
131mm x 351mm
(allow 500mm
for open lid)
10.2kg, so it wont
suffer springy
floors. The arm is
the secret to this
decks resistance
to obsolescence:
its cartridges can
be upgraded as
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REGA RP 8
Like the Pro-Ject,
this unit comes
with its own
tonearm, and its
a honey. Regas
original RB100 is
one of the bestselling tonearms
of all time, and
the RB808
here is a direct
descendant.
The deck is fully
adjustable, and
cartridges can be
upgraded. Fitted
as standard with
excellent cables,
an external
power supply with
on/off, and speed
select buttons,
the RP8 can be up
and running in
minutes. The
plinth is an ultralight, 6.5kg mix
of magnesium
and phenolic
materials dual
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bracing ensures
rigidity and
eliminates
resonance. The
lower octave
reproduction
sounds similar
to the Pro-Jects,
but the upper
frequencies are
more refined.
WIREDs tip:
invest in a good
stand. 8/10
1,598 (without
cartridge)
rega.co.uk
SP EC
SPEEDS 33 1/3
and 45rpm
MOTOR 24V lowvoltage motor
POWER Wall-wart
and TT-PSU box
SIZE 440mm x
360mm x 130mm
(allow 500mm
for open lid)
HOW WE TESTED
Each deck is considered an exemplar in its price bracket, but all three were auditioned under
the same conditions with a legendary entry level moving coil, the Denon DL103 (175) even
if supplied with their own. Testing was undertaken in a special 4m x 6m listening room with
separate AC supply, 1m poured concrete floor and 50cm-thick walls. All were played through
the EAT E-Glo Phono Stage into two systems: a high-end set-up with the Audio Research Ref
6 pre-amplifier, Audio Research Ref 75SE and Wilson Alexia loudspeakers; and a real-world
system of Quad VA-one integrated amplifier and MartinLogan Motion 15 speakers. LPs ranged
from Leslie Wests heavy-metal milestone Mountain to an operatic Paul Robeson from 1958.
050 | FOOD
MAPO TOFU
IN YOUR
MOUTH
B O LO G N E S E
UMAMI, SILKINESS,
PUNGENCY
IN YOUR
MEMORY
MOMOFUKU CAVIAR
AND FRIED CHICKEN
Chef David Chang
varieties of pickled
is constantly
roe: white sturgeon
innovating
caviar farmed in
with flavour
Idaho, and smoked
combinations,
steelhead trout roe
experimenting
from the Columbia
with fermentation
River in the US.
and seasoning
Truffle cream,
to create new
spring onion
sensations.
scones, potato
One of his most
chips, baby carrots,
successful uses
red ball radishes,
Changs theory
bibb lettuce, three
of taste and how
sauces and a
it is influenced
herb basket round
by memory (see
out the feast.
chart, left). Its
$500 for a party
an unlikely union
of four to eight.
of southern fried
noodlebar-ny.
chicken with two
momofuku.com
WORDS: JEREMY WHITE. PHOTOGRAPHY: KEIRNAN MONAGHAN & THEO VAMVOUNAKIS; ERIC WOLFINGER
SPRING ONIONS,
RED CHILLIES,
PORK, FERMENTED
BEAN, WHIPPED
TOFU
This ceviche
of fruit and
vegetables
with flowers
was created
by three-Michelinstarred chef
David Kinch and
served on
a sculptural
porcelain plate
made by artist
Erica Iman
Founded in 2012
by Jouw Wijnsma
and Martin Kullik,
Steinbeisser
organises the
Experimental
Gastronomy
initiative, based
at the Lloyd
Hotel & Cultural
Embassy in
Amsterdam and
active around
WO RD S B Y A L E X D OAK PH O T O G R A PH Y: S UN L EE
CH AN E L M O NT RE D E M ON S IE UR
Whether or not
you agree with
fashion brands
getting in
on fine Swiss
watchmaking,
this piece was
one of the big
stories of Basel.
Not only is the
Monsieur the first
mens watch from
Chanel (the J12
was, technically,
unisex), it is the
first to be driven
by an entirely
in-housemanufactured
movement
created from
scratch and five
years in the
making and
what a beauty it
is. There is no
rotor to obscure
the sleek black
anthracite
mechanics,
which means you
can see all the
wheels, some of
which were
supplied by indie
CNC-machinistturnedwatchmaker
Romain Gauthier.
To top it all,
dial-side, the
design is pure,
monochromatic
Chanel chic, with
a jumping hour
and retrograde
minutes, depicted
in a specially
commissioned
typeface.
23,500
chanel.com
054 | TIMEPIECES
The smartwatch
as a product
category has been
legitimised in the
past two years
but in style terms
few would dispute
that theyre
considerably more
Birkenstock than
Berluti. Well, no
longer. Samsung
has crossed paths
with none-moreflamboyant
jeweller and
watchmaker
de GRISOGONO
to create this
diamond-studded
hybrid. Its a
smartwatch you
could wear to
a film premiere,
of The Crown
previously steel
There are glaciers
its legendary
bezel, whose
capable of moving
chronograph
logarithmic
faster than Rolexs
they werent going
tachymetre
famed product
to revolutionise;
calibration became
development team.
just improve and
easily scratched.
But when they do
future-proof
Its now rendered
make their move,
its icon for another
in Rolexs tough
its always the right
decade or so. Given
Cerachrom
one, executed
that the Daytona
ceramic. An
perfectly and it
was already a
incremental yet
sticks. So when it
bulletproof watch,
masterful move.
came to updating
from the automatic
8,250 rolex.com
the crowning glory
movement to
the design and
functionality, what
has changed is the
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056 | TIMEPIECES
I W C P I L O T S T I M E ZO NE R CH R ON OG R APH
A rather heavy
genuinely handy,
you need do here is
aesthetic belies
but off-putting
push the springthe virtuosity and
in the doing.
mounted bezel
lightness of touch
Even its name,
down, turn to the
thats gone into
Timezoner does
relevant city, and
this remarkable
few favours, as
release: the hour
timepiece,
this is a pedigree
hand, 24-hour day/
simplifying a
worldtimer, not
night display and
function that
just a seconddate rearrange
unlike so
time-zone GMT
themselves
much frippery
watch. Whereas
to sync with your
in the world of
you usually need
present location.
watchmaking is
the instruction
10,250 iwc.com
book to adjust your
worldtimer watch
to wherever
youve landed, all
HU BLOT MECA-10
A watch whose
mechanism is
inspired by
Meccano why
hasnt anyone
thought of this
before? The
relationship
between the
construction toys
struts, bolts and
panels, and
mechanical
watchmakings tiny
bridges, screws
and mainplates
is a no-brainer,
not to mention
tremendous fun.
Most brands
reverence for
their own heritage
would forbid them
from something
so whimsical,
but Hublot has
ploughed its furrow
as a future-forward
experimentalist,
and its high-tech
aesthetic lends
the perfect
playground. The
result is actually
one of the brands
most coherent
blends of chassis
and engine, with
its iconic porthole
case providing a
titanium frame for
an architectural,
ten-day-powerreserve movement.
15,000 hublot.com
M OR G AN EV3
Morgan first built a three-wheeler back in 1910, but has re-imagined the concept
with the launch of the EV3. The classic silhouette has changed little since the 1930s
and its still a hand-crafted piece of automotive couture, but the tubular-spaceframe chassis now houses a 20kWh lithium-ion battery and a 46kW electric
motor powering the solitary rear wheel. The EV3 weighs less than 500kg, and Morgan
claims a top speed of 145kph and a range of 240km. tbc morgan-motor.co.uk
B EN T LEY B E NTAY G A
Bentleys Bentayga claims the accolade of being the first luxury SUV. With 600bhp, the
2,422kg car can hit an astonishing 300kph powered by a new 6.0L W12 engine (that
will also offer 0-100kph in 4.1 seconds). Packed with superb tech, the Bentayga can sport
dashboard-displayed infrared night vision that highlights pedestrians and animals in
the vicinity of the road, as well as a Naim for Bentley stereo system that is seriously loud:
1,950 Watts, 20 speakers and a 300W subwoofer. From 160,000 bentleymotors.com
JAGU AR F - PA C E
Jaguars first SUV is built on an aluminium shell that weighs just 298kg and offers superb
economy in its class (24.5kpl combined). Its no slouch either; the F-PACE reaches 0-100kph
in 5.5 seconds and has a 210kph top speed. Inside, it has the new 10.2-inch touchscreen
InControl Touch Pro entertainment system as an upgrade. Outside, the waterproof Activity Key
wristband locks and unlocks the car, letting you leave the real keys in the car when water activity
calls. The keys automatically deactivate while the band is in use. From 34,450 jaguar.co.uk
L A ND R O V E R
DISCOVERY
Forget all the James Bond nonsense: the DB11 marks the launch of a new era for Aston Martin.
It features the companys first turbocharged engine a 600bhp, 5.2 litre V12. A partnership
with Mercedes-Benz has given Aston Martin access to new tech, including gesture control, but
the smartest feature is its AeroBlade. By channelling and accelerating air through the rear of
the car, Aston has created a virtual spoiler. This provides the downforce required to keep the
car stable at 320kph without the need for a rear wing. Clever. From 154,900 astonmartin.com
AS TON M AR TIN D B1 1
M CL ARE N 57 0 G T
The GT or Grand Tourer marks a subtle shift in emphasis for McLarens 570, transitioning
from track-day warrior to continental express. A glass hatchback liberates a new, leather-lined
load bay meaning this 328kph supercar now has more luggage space than a Ford Focus.
Theres a giant glass roof pinched from the P1 hypercar and its worth upgrading for the epic
Bowers & Wilkins sound system. The suspension has been retuned for comfort, but this is still
a proper supercar with a 562bhp, 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8. From 154,000 mclaren.com
B R I S T O L B UL L E T
The Bullet is only the 18th new car that Bristol has introduced since its car division
was founded in 1945. Just 70 examples of the roadster will be hand-built in Chichester
and customers will be invited to tailor the cockpit to their own tastes even the
luggage is bespoke. Its not all old-school charm, though. Theres a 370bhp, 4.8-litre V8
engine from BMW, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Apple CarPlay. Theres even a concierge button
so you can summon Bristols dealership in Kensington. 250,000 bristolcars.co.uk
064 |
W R AI T H LUG G A G E
Like a large, deluxe
version of Jenga,
all six pieces of the
Wraith Luggage
Collection two
Grand Tourers,
three Long
Weekenders and
the Garment
Carrier have
been designed
to fit perfectly
into the luggage
compartment
of the RollsRoyce Wraith. The
C O L L E C TION
Grand Tourers
are constructed
from carbon fibre
with a high-grade
aluminium frame,
and its wheels
feature a selflevelling central
monogram, like
those on the
car itself. The
Long Weekender
features a
magnetic zip that
keeps belongings
secure, and the
Garment Carrier
fits over the rest of
the luggage. The
design process
led the in-house
development
team to seek input
from head butlers
at some of the
worlds top hotels,
just to make sure
no part of the
bags potential
journey was left
unconsidered.
24,248 rolls-royce
motorcars.com
>>
Why stop at
luggage? The
limited-edition
Rolls-Royce
Cocktail Hamper
is made from
American walnut
and contains RRmonogrammed
utensils, a jigger,
muddler, crusher,
and tumblers,
plus a recipe book
and napkins. Just
15 units will be
produced. 26,366
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