October 2015 Archive

Origami-inspired dress fits at every stage of pregnancy

Design Frontiers • 2 Oct 15

Designers have come up with a wearable flexible enough to expand with its pregnant user. >
An encounter between space travel and grief in this 3D animation

Design Frontiers • 2 Oct 15

French filmmaking collective BRVTVS, create a hi-tech, futuristic music video set in deep space that captures the raw human emotion of grief. >
Mushroom power could enhance smartphones, electric cars and more

Design Frontiers • 6 Oct 15

The ability of the Portobello mushroom to make things better has extended beyond food and into technology. >
Scientists have come up with a design for a real life forcefield

Design Frontiers • 13 Oct 15

Researchers at defence company Boeing are working on a futuristic cloaking device to protect vehicles against the hidden battlefield killer: shockwaves. >
This talking robot could be the future of smartphones

Design Frontiers • 16 Oct 15

Japanese tech company Sharp have designed a 19 centimetre talking, dancing, waving smartphone-robot. >
Teen scientist's device harvests the ocean's untapped energy

Design Frontiers • 20 Oct 15

A 15-year-old scientist designed a low-cost device that harvests the ocean's energy to provide power to the developing world. >
A wearable translates sign language into English

Design Frontiers • 23 Oct 15

Researchers are working on a high-tech wearable to bridge the gap between the deaf and those who don’t understand sign language. >
Virtual landscape could predict Alzheimer’s disease years before onset

Design Frontiers • 27 Oct 15

Scientists in Germany claim to have found a way to detect Alzheimer’s disease using a virtual maze. >
An app designed to help refugees locate missing family

Design Frontiers • 30 Oct 15

Refunite is a free platform with an anonymous database of more than 405,000 users and an estimated 1 500 family reunions. >
Ants inspire the super material of the future

Design Frontiers • 30 Oct 15

A 10-year study into the properties of fire ants has put researchers on a path to a self-healing material. >

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