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Holographic home decoration trends; house robots that patrol your property and clean the living room; novel home building trends with next-gen appliances built in—this page covers the trends and news that will guide the future of the home.

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https://www.propertywire.com/news/north-america/new-analysis-reveals-hundreds-of-thousands-of-us-home-at-risk-from-coastal-change/
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Property Wire
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https://theconversation.com/more-housing-supply-isnt-a-cure-all-for-the-housing-crisis-188342
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The Conversation
The study found that market housing tenants faced above-average challenges in all aspects, while community housing tenants fared better. Limited housing affordances by tenure was reported as a difficulty for both renters groups. Most respondents were satisfied with neighborhood accessibility, but some issues were reported, such as lack of public transit and access to private outdoor spaces. Addressing housing vulnerability also means addressing housing instability, lack of housing affordances, or lack of access to neighborhood amenities. To build long-term community resilience, public policies should pay attention not only to housing adequacy but also to residential stability and the quality of life that homes and neighborhoods provide. To read more, use the button below to open the original external article.
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https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/rf-cooking-could-be-the-wave-of-the-future/
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Digital Trends
RF cooking could change the way you use microwaves and ovens in the very near future.
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https://newatlas.com/around-the-home/julia-autonomous-cooking-system-kitchen-recipe-help-ces/
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New Atlas
A lot of people these days consider cooking a chore and wouldn't know a paring knife from a boning knife. Julia is an autonomous cooking system from CookingPal that is designed to appeal to just that market.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcbjWGj3jBk
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The School of Life
Very high house prices aren’t an act of God or a fact of nature. They’re the result of all sorts of policy and design mistakes – which we should try to under...
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/floor-cleaning-robots-a-k-robotics-1.4881482
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CBC
A&K Robotics was founded by three UBC graduates in 2015 and has developed a technology that turns conventional floor cleaning machines into self-driving robots.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2022/09/11/fadaa-bio-brick-screens-d-o-aqaba-retail-space/?li_source=LI&li_medium=rhs_block_2
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Dezeen
Crushed shells were used to form the bio-brick partitions at this store for a decor brand in Aqaba, Jordan, by architecture studio FADAA.
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As virtual reality tech vastly improves, potential homebuyers can tour their dream homes from their living rooms.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesrealestatecouncil/2020/03/02/everything-you-need-to-know-about-automated-valuation-models-avms-in-real-estate/
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Forbes
Appraisers, investors and lenders can leverage AVMs to get a more accurate value for their property of interest.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/04/tech-home-future-robots-living-smart
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The Guardian
Smart ovens, living carpets, robot butlers and beds that remind you to have sex – then make themselves. Welcome to your home of tomorrow
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https://soundcloud.com/a16z/eq-iq-consumer-robotics-home
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a16z
Stream a16z Podcast: The IQ and EQ of Robots by a16z from desktop or your mobile device
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMvvrMtV9TU
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a16z
Homeownership is an integral part of the American dream. But it’s fundamentally broken today. In this talk Adena Hefets, cofounder and CEO of Divvy Homes, ex...
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https://fortune.com/longform/single-family-home-ai-algorithms/
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Fortune
Data science helped Amherst Holdings CEO Sean Dobson make a fortune in the housing crash. Now he's deploying A.I. to profit from properties that most investors wouldn’t touch.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKYaNEwd34g
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Wall Street Journal
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https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/26/21154185/tempo-smart-home-gym-kinect-computer-vision-ai-form-correction
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The Verge
The Peloton for every fitness category already exists, but Tempo is differentiating itself by using AI computer vision to monitor a user’s form.
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http://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-create-holograms-you-can-touch
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IFLS
A scientist flicks on a switch. Like magic, a small, delicate image of a fairy appears, suspended in the air. The scientist then reaches out to touch the f
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https://howwegettonext.com/could-the-cities-of-the-future-take-the-form-of-a-digital-swarm-5531a3931760#989d.jluck8t89
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How We Get to Next
Each time we move to a new city, we make memories as the city slowly takes shape in our minds. Every new place we locate — the closest grocery store, the post office, rendezvous points with friends —…
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/these-are-the-top-25-cities-of-the-future
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WeForum
A new report from AT Kearney, a global business-consulting firm, ranks 128 cities based on their projected levels of importance and competitiveness in the future.
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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/4/20726427/raj-chetty-segregation-moving-opportunity-seattle-experiment
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Vox
Chetty says the Creating Moves to Opportunity program has "the largest effect I’ve ever seen in a social science intervention."
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2014/07/30/smartthings-smart-home-services/#42c81f8d507a
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Forbes
The real money in the booming smart-home
industry isn't in selling hardware. It's in
selling your data.
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https://gen.medium.com/im-an-amazon-warehouse-worker-this-crisis-is-making-life-hell-for-us-28dd3780c0e7
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Medium
Life in the Time of Coronavirus is a new series about how this pandemic affects our lives, our loved ones, our work, and our way of life.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-stay-young-kill-zombie-cells/
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Scientific American
An anti-aging strategy that works in mice is about to be tested in humans