From health-tracking wristbands to app-controlled thermostats, Béhar is the designer for our perma-connected age
Acclaimed San Francisco-based designer Yves Béhar has thrown his hat in the prefab game, by launching designs for ‘fully-customisable accessory dwelling units’ with LivingHomes (of Plant Prefab) as the Los Angeles’ Summit festival this week. The relatively compact structures are set to...
The 360-degree smart home hub by Hive has gone 480 with a new outdoor camera addition to its home technology collection. The launch of Hive View Outdoor marks the first time the UK-based smart home company has branched out into...
Two years ago designer Yves Béhar tapped into the philosophy that a well-appointed environment, lacking uniform cubicles and sterile lighting, can boost work ethic and foster productivity. He collaborated investor Steve Mohebi and designed Canopy with developer Amir Mortazavi, an...
After a decade languishing on consumer tech’s back porch, the smart home has started to enjoy mainstream success. Voice-activated butler bots such as Google Assistant and Apple HomeKit chime in 39 million American homes, while Ring, a video-activated doorbell, has...
London’s V&A Museum is engaging in a spot of reverse archaeology. For its latest exhibition, ‘The Future Starts Here’, it has scoured labs the world over – from Silicon Valley giants to Scottish start-ups – to collate more than...
Hive’s network of interconnected smart home devices, from Yves Béhar-designed Hive View, to lightbulbs, plugs and smart thermostats, have a new grand master – and it’s got built in WiFi. Like the existing Hive Hub, the new, updated Hive Hub...
We live in an age where the phrase ‘UV wearable’ is offered in conversation without explanation or definition. For those who aren’t up on their tech literacy, a ‘UV wearable’ is a stick-on sensor that tracks sun exposure, lowering the risk of skin...
It won’t have escaped even the most ardent Luddite that our devices are trying harder and harder to fulfil new desires by creating ever more complex ways of connecting with the humble home. It started with bulbs and thermostats but...
Korean tech giant Samsung has joined forces with Yves Béhar’s Fuseproject to develop a new model for home entertainment. Launching tonight in Paris, The Frame is a concept television with a design created to fit seamlessly into a home and...
Minimalism has always sat comfortably alongside the clutter of complicated watches, yin to its yang. Movado holds the honour of being both the first and the best at championing that state of utter simplicity, with its production of the Museum...
Merchandising slogans like ’intelligent home’ and ’automated home’ have been banded around since the 1964 New York World’s Fair. In recent times, these have become increasingly difficult to decode. Despite the unprecedented potential of smart home technology, when faced with...
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