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Our digital metropolitan soon to become our tangi-ble cityscape: With the expan-sion 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.

Photo: ASHLEY BETTS

Return of WaterHoly Moley there’snothing quite likethe refreshing feel of waterPAGE 12

Wild menup rockfaceFrom Indonesia to NZeveryone climbing a rockface near youPAGE 6

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1 CAPITAL CHRONICLE 20 June 2040

Wellington, our sensory City

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

Utilising new technologies such as memory metal and water-absorbing fabrics, the capitals de-signers 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 them-selves from the digital network and isolating them from the signals and connectivity which now dominate our daily life.

Eleanor Beeden


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Harvest: self grown skinNiquita Coats-Harrison

Remembering the day in 2030 when the new law past where ani-mal skins were not allowed to be used in production for clothing. Fashion icons such as Alexander McQueen and other top fashion followers were devastated as they could no longer use the beautiful leathers and animal textures.

Struck for ideas McQueen teamed up with Wellington Indus-trial Scientist designers, Capital Chronicle. Capital Chronicle team member Niquita Coats-Harrison, had been studying the ideas of sur-

STAGE ONE of transformation:This is the sticker/foot skin that is stuck on the foot. This is the first stage in transformation where the epidermal layers of the skin change the DNA. The second skin is like a cartilage skin graft. The slimy substance nurtures the skin to latch on.

Photo: NIQUITA COATS-HARRISON

face textures and the growth of a “second skin” through looking at the property of leeches and animal skin formation. Coats-Harrison had a group of female followers who were so obsessed with the ideals of the high heel that she developed a new form of footwear. Research started from scientist Ben, who is a regular in DLF lectures, gave knowledge to Capital Chronicle about the idea that when Kina shell touches human bone, the DNA starts to replicate the human bone properties to translate and trans-

form itself into bone. This idea fits really well into the human heel for-mation. The structure of the high heel would be built similar to tra-ditional casting methods. The high heel would elevate the and sup-port the foot while inside the heels frame a Kina shell structure was in-serted into the heel of the foot with structural support the bone would grow on the base of the foot and as the process transformation is com-plete the outside heel would be re-moved and the bone would be the persons permanent heel.

Coats-Harrison started to devel-op this idea and the idea of grow-ing a second skin to support the hu-man body with the extreme sports and fashion they carry out. A new type of design was formed where a sticker was attached to the body. When attached to the foot it would change the epidermal layers of the skin hence changing the DNA al-lowing the skin to grow furr and feathers and harden the skin like a leather. As the skin layers build up, the skin sheds like a cocoon and a shoe or a garment is created. Kill-

ing animals for their skin would no longer be an issue. The user them-selves grow their own leather to make their own clothing. Capital Chronicle had found a way around the new law but still creating the same effect.

The idea where feathers can be grown would enhance fashion advantages as the colouring is de-pendent on the owners DNA and health to how bright the colours form.


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Seamless: a dancers second skin

Harvest, the skin growing sticker has had extensive use than originally thoughout. Dancers have taken this technology and used it to advance their performance and ex-pression. The seamless slipper-like skin has allowed dancers to dance

STAGE ONE of transformation:This is the sticker/foot skin that is stuck on the foot. This is the first stage in transformation where the epidermal layers of the skin change the DNA. The second skin is like a cartilage skin graft. The slimy substance nurtures the skin to latch on.


Niquita Coats-Harrison

for a greater time and have a im-proved movement rate. The skin acts as the shoe for the dancer. The skin is hardened to create different forms of grip like dancing in bare feet but without the blisters. The human skin is well protected while

the Harvest skin is used to protect the foot giving the illusion of bare-feet.

Harvest has allowed dancers have more interaction with the space they dance in with lowing the injury rate.

The small price to pay for bionic limbsBionic limbs have become a popu-lar occurrence this day in current society. In 2010, the hype started from an Australian man Patrick* opted to amputate his arm to be replaced by a bionic hand.

This was the first proven result of success for a greater range of movement. The limb turned on a 360 degree axis and moved forwards and back as well as each individual fingers having move-ment.

This movement was allowed through tapping into the nerv-ous system of the user. The brain controls the thoughts and the robot limb responds as if a human hand was there. Quite a smart idea but the robot was still to become more fluid in its movement patterns.


Niquita Coats-Harrison

Currently, 30 years later the bionic limb movement has flourished. Athlete’s and hospital amputees were the first to cotton on to this advancement. The development of the bionic limbs has become so fluid with the human body that one could almost mistake it for being human.

The bionic limb has become extremely controversial in sports however as the world knows, the Japanese lead the technology exponential curve. Rightly so their sports players lack physical advances to the rest of the world such as height, muscle built and strength. Japan in 2010 were not so good against teams such as New Zealand in rugby. The NZ team are almost double their size due to the genetic difference.

NDG comes to WellingtonA Leg Up: The Non-Discrimi-

natory Games will be held by Wel-lington in early 2041, with athletes encouraged to enhance their natural abilities by any means available.

It has been a long time coming for a completely open entry sport-ing event, The Non-Discriminatory Games (The NDG) will be held in Wellington for the first time next January and is planned to be a yearly event.

The huge increase in people

with bionic implants which far sur-pass normal human capabilities, the genetically superior designer humans who are born with a dis-tinct advantage; and the constant arrival of new advanced forms of steroids and supplements has left traditional events running short of legal athletes.

In previous sporting events ath-letes would normally be disquali-fied for taking advantage of such enhancements, but this event wel-

comes them and encourages par-ticipants to test their capabilities against the best of the best.

Officials say that it is a brilliant opportunity to advance research in all human athleticism due to the large amount of funding that goes into training athletes already. The extra competition is expected to force further advances year after year.


www.capitalchronicle.co.nz WEATHER CAPITAL CHRONICLE

Solace of the wind

Photo: ASHLEY BETTSKeeping your thoughts safe: The new techno-fashion headpieces by designer “N.B” help to reduce external penetration by reflecting and absorbing radio-waves.

The current hike in wind prices has caused Wellington’s exports to rise in value by 35%, making them the leader in natural wind sales. With summer round the corner, people are stocking up their wind power to be fully prepared for the lack of in the coming months. The price hike has not deterred sales, but rather made people buy more, as wind becomes scarcer.

Wellington provides the most natural and strongest wind world-wide, with Rejkjavik, Iceland and Cape Town, South Africa close behind. WindPower is the main provider in Wellington with con-trolling 65% of the market share. CEO Jillian Keith stated “Wind is becoming more essential but the resource is only natural in certain areas; Wellington has utilized its once undesirable resource and con-verted it to a multi-billion dollar essential export.”

Unfortunately, natural wind may be a thing of the past as the application for weather continues to expand. The new version of Sol-ace 2.5 now shrinks weather down to a metre radius of the individual holding the hand held device. This also allows the person to expand the radius when concerning an area of land that is registered on the net-work to them.

With this new specified technol-ogy, the weather begins to revolve

Ashley Betts around the personal preference, which means the natural wind will become the unnatural wind. As time passes and technology evolves further, the atmosphere’s balance will begin to be tested and strained be human demand. We need to begin to be fair about our weather choices, before we lose control.

Wellington provides the most natural and strongest wind world-wide, with Rejkjavik, Iceland and Cape Town, South Africa close behind. WindPower is the main provider in Wellington with con-trolling 65% of the market share. CEO Jillian Keith stated “Wind is becoming more essential but the resource is only natural in certain areas; Wellington has utilized its once undesirable resource and con-verted it to a multi-billion dollar essential export.”

Unfortunately, natural wind may be a thing of the past as the application for weather continues to expand. The new version of Sol-ace 2.5 now shrinks weather down to a metre radius of the individual holding the hand held device. This also allows the person to expand the radius when concerning an area of land that is registered on the net-work to them.

With this new specified technol-ogy, the weather begins to revolve around the personal preference, which means the natural wind will become the unnatural wind.

Weather to payAshley Betts

The current hike in wind prices has caused Wellington’s exports to rise in value by 35%, making them the leader in natural wind sales. With summer round the corner, people are stocking up their wind power to be fully prepared for the lack of in the coming months. The price hike has notdettered sales, but rather made people buy more, as wind becomes more scarce the price will continue to grow.

Wellington provides the most natural and strongest wind world-wide, with Rejkjavik, Iceland and Cape Town, South Africa coming second and third respectively.

WindPower is the main provider in Wellington with controlling 65% of the market share. CEO Jillian Keith stated that “Wind is becom-ing more essential but the resource is only natural in certain areas;

Wellington has utilized it’s once undesirable resource and convert-ed it to a multi-billion dollar essen-tial export.”

The current hike in wind prices has caused Wellington’s exports to rise in value by 35%, making them

the leader in natural wind sales. With summer round the corner, people are stocking up their wind power to be fully prepared for the lack of in the coming months. The price hike has notdettered sales, but rather made people buy more, as wind becomes more scarce the price will continue to grow.

Wellington provides the most natural and strongest wind world-wide, with Rejkjavik, Iceland and Cape Town, South Africa coming second and third respectively.

WindPower is the main pro-vider in Wellington with control-ling 65% of the market share. CEO Jillian Keith stated that “Wind is becoming more essential but the resource is only natural in certain areas;



Wind in a Box: The wind power prices are rising but people continue to pay. Photo: ASHLEY BETTS


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Old films come to SensiscapeRobbie Wigmore

Film technology has always progressed towards giving the user a complete experience, from its humble beginnings almost 250 years ago using light to project images onto screens, it progressed to the mainstream adoption of 4D cinema in 2020, and since 2036 has advanced enough to fully incorporate all of the senses with Sensecaptive Experience Technol-ogy (SET). A simple download from The Network allows users to experience a feature length film

from a first person perspective in the comfort of their own head in less than 5 minutes. But because SET is a completely different media to traditional film it took a few years to develop the technol-ogy to convert between the two. On Tuesday pre-2036 films started being rereleased in SET capable cinemas worldwide. The Lord of the Rings is rereleased Thursday at the Embassy cinema in Wellington one week before its worldwide rerelease. Photo: ELEANOR BEEDEN

Photo: ELEANOR BEEDEN


www.capitalchronicle.co.nz LIFESTYLE CAPITAL CHRONICLE

I caught up with Jono Watkins, He has been getting his new col-lection ready to show to the public. He states that “this is undoubtedly the best textile collection in the world” showcasing genetically en-gineered fabrics to the public for the first time in wellington city. He is calling for all fashion designers to enter his competition of “Wel-lingtons future fashion garment” his final handin for this is the 20th of June so get your ideas cracking and start thinking of ways to use his five great fabrics of the forties. He gave me a list of them and what they do...

StructraCol uses structural col-our like that found on the wings of morpho butterflies. The Idea be-hind this fabric is that the structure of the cells are made in such a way that when ambient light hits the fabric it will reflect only one of the colours in the light spectrum and absorb the others. Therefore it will shine brighter on a sunny day and never fade.

HydrOuterwear uses the same principle as a Namib Desert bee-tle that collects due from the fog on its wings and filters it down to its mouth. These wings are a hy-drophobic surface. In hydrOuter-wear there will be Hydrophilic (water loving) cells amongst the hydrophobic surface to store the water. Later this stored water can be used for drinking if in extreme conditions and also used to create

Couture textile collection released

The new style to hit our streets: The textiles work seamlessly together breathing a new technological era to textiles Photo: JONO WATKINS

Jono Watkins

the chemical reaction with calcium chloride in our HeataChem Textile.

HeataChem uses the same prin-ciples as a hot cold heat pack, but we have incorporated it into a ma-terial which can be activated by water, once the material has dried out again it restores its state and is ready to be used as a heating textile again.

KineticHair can capture the winds energy in its genetically en-gineered hair follicles. Each hair is its own battery cell and can hold up to 0.005v and 0.001ma, when hair cells are linked together 500mm x

500mm square of KineticHair can charge a cell phone or other hand-held device. At full charge.

StankStop is made from Active carbon; Active carbon is a natural-ly occurring substance which can soak up body smells and doesn’t need washing. It is antibacterial, antimicrobial and antifungal.

These textiles open a whole new window of opportunity to fashion designers. Jono left us with one last quote “to design Wellington fashion for the future you must em-brace textiles”.


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Keeping your thoughts safeNathan Berrett

Long has privacy been a front-line issue for society, the updated Privacy Act of 2022 almost abol-ished any form of electronic priva-cy; the human body seemed to be under constant surveillance for our protection. An upcoming Welling-ton techno-fashion designer “N.B” has harnessed the power of water-absorbing materials and radio-wave repelling materials to create a range of fashionable headpieces that not only looking stunning, but help to log you off The Network.

The new ranges of headpieces are designed to cover the human antennae located in the left-front lobe, reflecting and absorbing in-

coming radio waves. The head-pieces are most effective when wet – as water absorbs radio waves. Numerous panels are covered in a water-absorbing fabric, and lay-ered in hydrogel; retaining water and keeping the head dry in wet weather.

In a recent interview, “N.B” told reporters he named the collec-tion “Chengdu” and the collections aesthetic is based upon the Chinese Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter jet re-leased in 2019.

“N.B” will be showcasing his “Chengdu” line Wednesday June 27th at the Auckland Hilton Ho-tel. Photo: NATHAN BERRETT

Keeping your thoughts safe: The new techno-fashion headpieces by designer “N.B” help to reduce external penetration by reflecting and absorbing radio-waves.

TableTilesPut away your MakerBots, it’s

time for a tableware revolution!Following the home-creation

craze of the ‘Thrifty Thirties’, Wellington-based company Steven Smith Ceramics have come up with a new way of setting the table.

According to their makers, Tab-leTiles are the innovative solution to the crowded cupboards of our kitchens. Stacking together as flat square tiles, these ceramics claim to allow for the machine-free crea-tion of tableware in any size and shape, due to their unusual mode of expansion.

Created with the recently refined technology of memory-ceramics and pressure release, each tile rec-ognises a user-drawn outline on it as a boundary for the base of the object. As the controlling corner of the tile is lifted, the area outside of the boundary is raised and shaped, and the sides of the tableware are produced.

As the height and shape of the object are completely customis-able, a TableTile can be formed into any sort of vessel, and when it is no longer needed the process can be reversed for easy cleaning and storage.

Something Old, Something New: Hayley Adams of ‘Tech Time-Out’ adds a traditional touch to her TableTile - an innovation in tableware

Eleanor Beeden

TableTiles are a new and unu-sual addition to the ceramics com-pany, which has been creating tra-ditional ceramic pots in the capital for over 50 years. Simon Smith, son of company founder Steven Smith, says that TableTiles will “put Wellington on the map as an innovator in ceramic technology”, and after taking on the role of sen-sory capital of the world, a return to traditional materials may be just the thing Wellington needs.

We asked Aro Valley local Hay-ley Adams, a member of the area’s first ‘Tech time-out’ group, what she thought of the innovation. “It’s an amazing thing for Wellington, that we can bring the past back into the future” Miss Adams states, “It’s exciting to see real things again”.

With such praise, it won’t be long before we see TableTiles be-come a permanent fixture in the households of the Capital.

The Aro Valley ‘Tech time-out’ group meets weekly to enjoy an afternoon free from 21st Century technology.

Email [email protected] for more information.

ELEANOR BEEDENTasty Treat: Alex Matson of the Aro Valley ‘Tech Time-Out’ group takes a sip, thanks to Wellington’s new ceramic technology.

ELEANOR BEEDEN


www.capitalchronicle.co.nz TRAVEL CAPITAL CHRONICLE

Pathway to Galilee

A new organism has developed from metal foam to allow people to be able to walk on water. “Jesus’ Trestle” is a new cross species cre-ation designed to hold a person’s weight on the surface of the water. This organic material moves with the ocean’s surface but maintains its strength. Scientists discovered it while looking for a new way to travel through water. Wellington has taken advantage of the discov-ery being found in the harbour and have began to harvest it to create new walkways through Wellington Harbour.

The Wellington City Council has tamed the coral to create a path

Jono Watkins

from Wellington’s lowest point to Eastbourne. They say the scenic route will encourage more people to experience the water through touch and allows them to explore Wellington in a new unique way.

The general public is very inter-ested in this new organism and is eager to explore the coral’s capa-bilities once it has been fully tested by a team of experts. The experi-ence of walking on water will be like nothing you can experience through the network; the touch, the smell and the look will lure you in.

Photo: ASHLEY BETTS

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