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Ekasi Water Cap
Design Frontiers
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17 Jun 14
Peter Krige has prototyped a pressure-tight closure that can be fitted onto easily available parts to create a shower for unplumbed homes.
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Watt scooter
Design Frontiers
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1 Jul 14
This electric push scooter by industrial design outfit eLabs is a made-in-South-Africa solution to inner-city congestion.
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Nabasco
Design Frontiers
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8 Jul 14
This future-forward, environmentally friendly material finds an artful application in a project by Dutch designer Ineke Hans.
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Bright spark
Design Frontiers
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15 Jul 14
Faithless percussionist Sudha Kheterpal wants to shake up the world to create clean energy for people without access to electricity.
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The possibilities of bioprinting
Design Frontiers
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22 Jul 14
Now that 3D bioprinting is becoming a reality, speculative designer Agi Haines explores the possibilities of new and improved replacement organs.
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A helping hand
Design Frontiers
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29 Jul 14
A new smart tool from MIT Media Lab is blurring the lines between handmade and digital technology. But that's not a bad thing.
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Bamboo engineering
Design Frontiers
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5 Aug 14
Building with bamboo is not new but researchers at MIT are exploring new ways of creating construction products from the sustainable resource.
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A water pump for remote farmers
Design Frontiers
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19 Aug 14
A new foot-operated irrigation device is capable of tripling the revenue of smallholder farmers, says its manufacturer.
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The Biopanel
Design Frontiers
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26 Aug 14
Product designer Alejandra Olivera turns seaweed into a new eco-friendly insulation material for informal housing.
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A step up
Design Frontiers
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7 Oct 14
Michaella Janse van Vuuren's latest pieces take her technical proficiencies to new heights – and onto the fashion runway.
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A toy that teaches empathy
Design Frontiers
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15 Oct 14
Canadian industrial designer Ilana Ben-Ari’s puzzle game teaches the creative skills children won’t find in textbooks.
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Shining a light on workers’ safety
Design Frontiers
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28 Oct 14
The new Halo Light is a multi-task light that ensures construction workers are visible from 600 metres away.
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Replicating the mother's womb
Design Frontiers
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4 Nov 14
A new infant care system proposes radically improved incubators that transmit the mother's heartbeat, breathing and voice.
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A next-generation tree harvester
Design Frontiers
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10 Nov 14
Like the insect it is named after, the Gerridae harvester is light on its feet and the environment.
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Matali Crasset on making baskets in Bulawayo
Design Frontiers
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11 Nov 14
The French designer tells us in her own words about her time spent with Zimbabwean weavers developing baskets based on the gourd.
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A safer and speedier rescue
Design Frontiers
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13 Nov 14
Spark Design and Innovation's inflatable raft uses an innovative tilting mechanism that makes it easier to pull rescue victims out of the water.
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Technology and textiles, knitted together
Design Frontiers
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20 Nov 14
Dutch designer Borre Akkersdijk has created an eye-catching suit that is a wearable connected platform – with technological applications way beyond that.
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The special power of disgust
Design Frontiers
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15 Dec 14
It's time for aesthetics to reconsider the role of disgust as an emotion, says Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Merel Witteman.
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