2016 Archive

The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars

Design Frontiers • Duration: 02:43 • 25 Nov 16

Researchers speculate on the murky decision-making aptitude of AI vehicles. >
Cáustico: Speculating the future of water access

Design Frontiers • Duration: 4:00 • 28 Sep 16

What happens to society if drinking water becomes our most lucrative resource? >
No Man’s Sky: The videogame that conceives galaxies

Design Frontiers • Duration: 5:53 • 19 Aug 16

The 2016 offering of Hello Games is pushing the possibilities of open-world gameplay to new stratospheres. >
Project Florence: Opening communication with plant life

Design Frontiers • Duration: 2:21 • 18 Aug 16

Helene Steiner works to expand communication with plants. The resulting dialogue is bizarre and intriguing. >
In the pipeline: The new underwater motorways of Norway

Design Frontiers • Duration: 0:55 • 16 Aug 16

These submerged floating tubes may be the first step into trans-Atlantic road connections. >
Osmosis power: Mini generator creates energy from salt water

Design Frontiers • 28 Jul 16

Nanoscientist Aleksandra Radenovic, explores the wonder of osmosis (also known as blue energy) power generation. >
EyeControl: The first screen-free device for ALS patients

Design Frontiers • 25 Jul 16

Often patients with ALS are "locked in" and unable to speak or use their limbs. With EyeControl, "locked-in" patients can communicate using eye-scrolling tech. >
Project Nourished: A virtual reality experience that tricks your taste buds

Design Frontiers • Duration: 00:00:09 • 12 Jul 16

Experience designer Jinsoo An’s Project Nourished creates virtual worlds where any food dream is possible. >
The Plasmorph: A living diary

Design Frontiers • 17 Jun 16

Relying on memory alone can be daunting. Conceptual designer Ann-Kristin Abel envisions a living organism that provides customised information, >
Loving Vincent: A feature film of 56 800 hand painted frames

Design Frontiers • 13 Jun 16

This animated biopic is about the mysterious life and death of world-renowned artist Vincent Van Gogh and was made of over 50 000 hand painted images. >
Ingestible origami robot can patch a wound from the inside

Design Frontiers • 31 May 16

Researchers have developed a tiny magnetically controlled robot with dozens of healthcare applications. >
Spyce: healthy meals with the speed and ease of fast food

Design Frontiers • 31 May 16

Designed by students, the machine makes a healthy meal as quick and easy as fast food. >
Mimicking the womb

Design Frontiers • 18 May 16

An artificial placenta could revolutionise care for premature babies. >
Notes on Blindness: A virtual reality experience

Design Frontiers • 23 Mar 16

“Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness” is a virtual reality film created from the audio diaries theologian John Hull kept as he went blind. >
Sideways driving with Goodyear’s latest concept tyre

Design Frontiers • 8 Mar 16

International tyre company Goodyear has revealed the spherical-shaped, smart tyre of the future. >
Human tissue, smart textiles could follow these 4D-printed flowers

Design Frontiers • 2 Feb 16

Researchers take 3D printing to the next level with printed objects that mimic the way plants move in nature. >

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