Starting in early 2019, 20 towns across Italy began selling homes for €1, or about $1.10. Local governments hope the plan will attract fresh faces and new businesses to towns that have been suffering from rapid depopulation and a growing number of abandoned homes for decades. But, as detailed in this video from the Business Insider YouTube channel, the true cost of these homes turns out to be much higher than $1.
In the following TED.com video MIT’s Carlo Ratti and his team at SENSEable City Lab make cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away and to create surprising visualizations of city life. And they have created dazzling interactive environments and architecture from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.