Developing Better Living in Place Solutions By now the news has been sounded. The Baby Boomer generation, the largest generation of people in the...
What Is Well Washing? And How Our Home Technology Industry Can Combat It
When a product or service becomes popular, it is not uncommon for opportunists to make attempts to “cash in.” Often, as soon as a trend becomes a...
The Power of Scent Technology for Enabling Immersive Wellness
There’s a revolution of the senses going on right now in technology and design. Human-centric lighting and daylighting principles are being used to...
The Value of Aesthetics in Technology Integrations
It Pays to Look at the Layout of Technology in a Space Where does beauty exist? The obvious response is art and nature. But as architect Don...
Businesses Are Ramping Up Investments in Wellness Technology
The notion of healthy living first started gaining traction in the workplace in the 1980s, but since that heyday of Jane Fonda workout tapes, the...
A Biomimicry Course is Unveiled at the Indian Institute of Technology
Other than Arizona State University, which offers several courses in the subject, biomimicry is largely absent from higher education programs in the...
Why it Takes a Lighting Designer to Deliver the Best Circadian Lighting
There’s been somewhat of a misconception developed over the years regarding circadian lighting (a.k.a. Human-Centric Lighting). It’s getting better...
A Gap in Hard Water Treatment is Leaving Homes Vulnerable
The issue of hard water can be likened to that of mold. Creeping, consuming and otherwise slow building, it’s a problem that affects not only the...
Sourcing Window Treatments with Confidence
Interior designers have known for decades that window treatments are the secret finishing touch. However, for the typical consumer, these functional...
The Impact of an Older Population on the Custom Electronics Industry
For more than a decade ‘transformation’ has been used to describe many societal shifts. However, for this author, and authors who have been more...