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Meural Digital Art Frame Bring art to life


Leonora Black


£599.99 • Discover new art, browse Meural’s enormous catalogue, or upload your own


• Scroll through different artwork with a simple wave of your hand


• Super detailed and vibrant screen – you’d never know it was digital


• Beautiful, sustainably-harvested poplar frame


• It’s your very own living art exhibit


Meural isn’t ‘just’ a digital art frame – it’s an interactive portal into a whole world of art, and it’ll change the way you enjoy and discover art forever. A myriad of technology and sensors concealed within the classy poplar frame let you find works you love, upload your own, and control Meural with a mere wave of your hand. The canvas itself is so vibrant and detailed that even the keenest of eyes won’t notice it’s digital until you change the artwork displayed on it. It’s your very own living art exhibit.


Once subscribed to the Meural membership, you’ll get access to an extensive and regularly-updated catalogue of over 30,000 works. Featuring classics like Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’, alongside critically-acclaimed photography, modern conceptual art, and eye-catching animations.


Our favourite thing about it? Now we don’t need a mansion’s worth of wall space to display all our favourite works of art! Please Note: A subscription of just $4.95 a month or $39.95 a year gives you access to Meural’s extensive and regularly- updated art catalogue Product Features:


Browse and discover new works of art an with a wave of your hand You can also control Meural through their website or free app (if hand gestures aren’t your thing) 27” IPS Display with anti-glare technology


Meural’s TrueArt technology renders images as lifelike and textured


Made from sustainably harvested, FSC certified American poplar Canvas easily connects to Wi-Fi


Automatically detects orientation and adjusts accordingly Measures approximately 19.5”(W) x 29.5”(H) x 1.6”(D)


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to the internet – including digital assistants such as Siri, Amazon Echo and Google Home. Right now, you can digitally connect to your home heating,


your car, your front door, your fridge… and your heart. These all provide a ready database of cause-and-effect responses which are the foundations for the development of a representative digital twin. An environment is fast emerging that will enable digital twins to flourish, connecting the physical to the digital world in ways previously unprecedented; not only device-to- device, but the physical world to the digital one.


Singapore’s digital twin is due in June 2018


Under development in Singapore right now is a digital twin called ‘Virtual Singapore’. Virtual Singapore is described by technology partner Dassault Systèmes as “the world’s first digital twin of an existing city state and will provide Singaporeans with an effective way to engage in the digital economy. It will be both a collaboration platform for city departments and businesses, and a communication platform between the city and its citizens.” The digital twin differs from other modelling approaches


in that it can be designed to monitor and model multiple elements and the interactions between each ‒ elements such as population density, transport, water, weather, energy transmission, energy consumption, waste management, security, people movements, and consumer purchasing… all manner of activity in a city. Our cities can be reimagined by changing variables and


understanding the impact. A virtual twin will help urban planners and policymakers visualise the responses from various sensor


networks and intelligent systems deployed now and in the future – and they will use them to make informed decisions, using the twin environment as a test bed for innovative urban ideas.


Sibling rivalry


The power of a digital twin city will be in how it strategically uses technologies like the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data. Feeding the sibling will be multiple streams of data, both historical and in real time. Those cities that are able to leverage this technology and harness the benefits will be the communities and cities that prosper ‒ they will become more environmentally, economically and socially sustainable. But are we really ready? The sibling could well become an intelligent counterpart ‒ trying to compete or to even make decisions for us. And, as with all ‘operating rooms’ where we monitor, diagnose and treat the sick – we’ll need skilled doctors. Will they be real or virtual? And, are we ready for them to alter the DNA of our cities… what ethical framework will these doctors use? Enabling these ‘digital twins’ will involve the labour pains


of ensuring our governance, as well as ethical structures, are ‘birth-ready’. There’s also the question of “Who owns the data?” – the government, the private sector, the digital twin platform, the autonomous vehicle that creates the data, or the citizen who is feeding data into the twin model? It will also be crucial to ensure the accelerating pace of technology does not move faster than our ability to understand the consequences and plan how best to use digital twins for the benefit of all. If we can do that, we may just be able to create our own ‘saviour city’.


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