Bright lights, big trees: Dutch designer imagines an ‘urban forest’

City links: Blueprints for a neighbourhood of tree houses and smiley-face signals to reduce road rage feature in this week’s best city stories

Five of the best smartwatches for 2015

From the Apple Watch, the Pebble Time and a raft of Google Android Wear watches, there are a lot to choose from. Here are the five best.

Festivals, flights and fulfilment: welcome to the post-digital world

However well-connected it makes us, cyberspace is lonely. That’s why, more and more, we are looking for live experiences

The more time we spend glued to our iPhone cameras, the less we see

Apple’s iPhone 6 campaign is keen to remind us that we can all take beautiful photos. But while we stare into our screens we miss out on the richness of the world around us