New technology often walks a tightrope between the necessary and the needless. With our reliance on digital devices ramping up over the course of the year, most of us favoured raw functionality over eccentric forms, as well as the chance to get away from tech wherever possible. On the other...
Wallpaper’s Jonathan Bell reveals his top 10 technology stories of 2021, spanning portable speakers, virtual supercars, reimagined electric guitars, and a peek inside Apple ParkNew technology often walks a tightrope between the necessary and the needless. With our reliance on digital devices ramping up over the course of the year, most of us favoured raw functionality over eccentric forms, as well as the chance to get away from tech wherever possible.
In the past year, we saw the electric guitar undergo one of its periodic revivals. While the instrument is regularly written off as old and embarrassing technology, beloved by Boomers and irrelevant to modern mores, interest is always sparked by revivals and returns, as well as a constant stream of innovators who are able to do new things with six strings and a chunk of wood. What rarely changes is the guitar’s form factor; musical innovation doesn’t necessarily need technological change.
Swedish technology brand Urbanista is trying to do something a little bit different. The company’s newest product is dubbed ‘Los Angeles’, an appropriately sun-drenched destination for a pair of wireless headphones that can be charged using the sun. We spoke to Anders Andreen, Urbanista’s founder and CEO, about this new approach to power-saving technology and attention to detail. ‘We make products for modern urbanists,’ says Andreen.
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