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Sensory City. Elle - Nathan

With the expansion of the digital realm and the subsequent worldwide revolt against it, Wellington is moving towards a new future of physical interaction. The compact nature of the city, its pedestrian areas and vehement weather make it a perfect environment for tangible experiences.

Utilising new technologies such as memory metal and water-absorbing fabrics, the capitals designers are focusing on creating interactions in life. To supplement this return to reality, there are also plans to develop areas in the city and personal products that offer the public ways of removing themselves from the digital network and isolating them from the signals and connectivity which now dominate our daily life.

The Blood Powered Revolution – Niquita

From studies in 2011, ideas for the future showed technology was heading towards a wider network communication capital.

Research led to the development of a wireless connection through Blood Batteries. Technology the Capital Chronicle News researched in 2011 changed after the news of the extinction of the Tardigrada. The Tardigrades were couned to become the micro leaders of all communication networks. A new species of Tardigrade developed due to global warming which led to their extinction in the biological niche.

Capital C furthered to design a system while conversing with Canterbury Bio Chemist Honors Graduate Dylan Gifford for the possibility of creating a protein. This encased a certain blood battery that was currently being developed in 2011.

The protein housed a paper-thin battery allowing the future allowing the future digital citizens to have just one injection of the protein into their blood system.

The liquid designed is housed in it a special nutrience that once digested would alter the protein. This would turn the ions in the battery on within the protein, making a wireless connection. This carbon nano tube battery was thus turned on inside the protein which was fed from the bloodstream.

This system was designed to enhance a closer connection within Wellington’s digital community.

Once blood sugar levels drop, the liquid that was digested for the wireless connection turns off until more nutrience is consumed. This way Wellington, citizens can control the connectivity of the amount of wireless network they want available for daily use. We are now the connectors to our own digital lives.

Tribal Times – Elle

Following the side-effects blunder of the recent “water-connectivity” scheme, Wellington residents have come to terms with their new look. Those with similar skin discolourations have banded together into what sociologist Mike McRae of Auckland University has called “modern-day tribes”. These tribes have established territorial claims throughout the city, and now areas that were once seen as public domain are now home to cosmetically branded gangs. Interaction between the groups is lessening and people are wary of the growing social tension.

Harsh Truth of Logging off – Nathan

The seven year study which investigated the effects of constantly logging off from the Nyx Network has yielded haunting results. The study undertaken as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has revealed grave ramifications including skin discolouration, rash like effects, skin pigmentation and infection of the sweat glands. Dr John Goldstein who managed the study said that “while the effects of logging off are minor and vary between people ethnicities, we should still take caution while we log and off from the network”. Goldstein further recommended “rather than logging on and off as we use the network, maintaining a constant connection is the safest option until we discover a better way of disconnection from the network”.

Wellington weather provokes fashion designer -Jono Watkins

I caught up with Jono Watkins, he had a couple of things to say about his new collection: “Wellington; a city with character. A living and breathing city with a temper. A wild temper”. Wellington’s erratic weather is a paryt of this city something we cannot escape, the winter 2040 capital collection aims to force fashion and weather to work hand-in-hand. Collection in a literal sense, garments to complement a sensory city, Wild Wellington. Howling, sodden and bitterly cold.

“To emphasise the elements, to celebrate sensory fashion”