What we’ve read, written and seen

Newsletter week 02, 2023

BMW Colour-Changing Car At CES 2023, BMW unveiled its colour-shifting iX Flow. The car enables its owner to either switch between or combine 32 colours. The car can be seen as a blank canvas to explore, as each separate panel can be customized. It also has a fully digital, mixed-reality windshield to decide how much "digital content" you see in front of you while you drive. Read more here

So Young Music, Art and Culture Magazine So Young, founded in 2013, is a creative platform fuelled by the vibrant and underreported creative scenes within alternative music and the visual arts. So Young interlinks a record label and live shows and provides a creative platform to champion music and art from the underground up. See more here

Netflix VR Stranger Things VR is the first entirely VR game Netflix is developing as part of its broad gaming initiative to diversify its media offerings. The game allows fans to experience the world of Stranger Things from a “never-before-seen perspective”. Read more here

Just three crops provide 50% of the world’s calories A combination of rising incomes, the impact of Western culture and industrial farming focused on specific crops means we are all eating increasingly alike and more than ever depend on imported food. There is a reawakened interest in neglected traditional foodstuffs to start attempting to shift things back. Read more here