2016 Archive

Bringing bones to life: Artist prototypes a hand grown out of stem cells

Design Frontiers • 26 Jul 16

Artist Amy Karle’s Regenerative Reliquary is an open-source biotech project showcasing a human hand grown out of stem cells. >
Changing fonts with our faces

Design Frontiers • 29 Jul 16

What if our fonts could reflect exactly what we feel? >
Combatting drought with orange peels

Design Frontiers • 29 Jul 16

Kiara Nirghin won the Google Science Fair Community Impact Award for her innovative creation of a super absorbent biodegradable polymer made from orange peels. >
6 ways we could change mobility and transport in the city

Design Frontiers • 5 Aug 16

From sensory deprivation clouds to government enforced carpooling, here are the ways design can address the challenges of transport. >
The clothing designed to sense unseen pollution

Design Frontiers • 5 Aug 16

In collaboration with UK scientists, artist Kasia Molga created garments that are able to measure the surrounding air quality. >
Interactive dynamic video is a game changer for Pokémon Go, VR and more

Design Frontiers • 11 Aug 16

Pokémon Go combines augmented reality and the real world, but this tech could take it a step further. >
Meet the girls of Malaville

Design Frontiers • 12 Aug 16

Model and businesswoman Mala Bryan’s debut doll collection is black girl magic. >
DuoSkin: Tattoo-like devices print tech on skin

Design Frontiers • 16 Aug 16

Using gold leaf metal, MIT researchers are placing customised, tattoo-like interfaces directly onto the skin of the user. >
Sustaining the memory of the ‘Black Mamba’

Design Frontiers • 16 Aug 16

Cryus Kabiru’s roadster fixation leads to imaginative and nostalgic sculptures. >
Buhle Ngaba’s The Girl Without A Sound

Design Frontiers • 22 Aug 16

Meet the young actress encouraging little girls to own their voice. >
Catch an autonomous flying drone to work

Design Frontiers • 23 Aug 16

Airbus shares plans to develop autonomous flying vehicles in response to land-based traffic congestion. >
Kosovo’s visually arresting road to the Olympics

Design Frontiers • 24 Aug 16

These images capture the Kosovo Olympic team as they prepare to make history. >
Living Gadgets: What if organisms can become disposable design components?

Design Frontiers • 26 Aug 16

Studio José de la O contemplates the possibilities of genetically modified life forms made suitable for human convenience and comfort. >
Harvard’s squishy autonomous robot

Design Frontiers • 29 Aug 16

With no electronics, this revolutionary 3D printed robot moves with the help of a chemical reaction. >
Solar Express: The futuristic space transit concept

Design Frontiers • 31 Aug 16

Montréal’s Imaginactive has put forth a design idea that would bring remote parts of the cosmos within closer human reach. >
HI-SEAS: The NASA-funded Mars simulation project

Design Frontiers • 2 Sep 16

An elaborate Mars habitation research project has just closed one chapter and is preparing to embark on the next one. >
Waste Not: Aliza Eliazarov turns trash food into works of art

Design Frontiers • 5 Sep 16

This photographer is highlighting the global food crisis with her images of salvaged food. >
Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: Stanford’s ongoing study

Design Frontiers • 6 Sep 16

The University of Stanford assembled thinkers to measure the future ripples of AI – and their first full report has been issued. >
Indian scientists create device to collect solar energy more efficiently

Design Frontiers • 7 Sep 16

This new CSIR development may pose a solution to land restraints and solar energy production in India. >
Replantable: The start-up striving to make an urban farmer out of anyone

Design Frontiers • 9 Sep 16

See the novel solution to maintaining fresh produce without garden space. >
The enigmatic EmDrive rises through scientific ranks

Design Frontiers • 9 Sep 16

The 2000 brainchild of Roger Shawyer gains research momentum as a viable space engine. >
Gene-editing of mosquitoes could annihilate lethal viruses

Design Frontiers • 14 Sep 16

Scientists could put disease-spreading mosquitoes in their crosshairs, but would the outcome be positive? >
Cooling technology poised for revolution

Design Frontiers • 16 Sep 16

This North Carolina startup aims to overhaul temperature control with solid-state chips. >
SuperMeat: The cultured chicken meat of the future

Design Frontiers • 16 Sep 16

This startup envisions a world where we can enjoy real meat without the guilty conscience. >

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