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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13

Make Sense turns everyday drives into environmental surveys

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A Cornwall-based early-stage company is building vehicle-mounted sensing systems for mapping air quality, road surfaces, and building heat loss.

Why it surfaced

Make Sense proposes fitting sensor pods to vehicles already making their rounds, turning ordinary journeys into continuous, street-level environmental data. The site is unusually clear about its current status: the first vehicle system is still in build, in Falmouth, and the company is inviting councils and networks into the design conversation.

Thirty Patents for the Grave

August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.