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This breathable workout suit helps you cool down after a sweaty gym session
Design Frontiers
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21 Jul 17
Researchers at MIT use living cells to give this unique garment a cool advantage.
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Everything you always wanted to know about toilets, but were afraid to ask
Design Frontiers
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18 Jul 17
The Cube Design Museum in the Netherlands is hosting an interesting new exhibition.
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Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Bicycles clean the air as you ride
Design Frontiers
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14 Jul 17
The next phase of Smog Free Project China is almost here.
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Scientists get innovative in the fight against glacier melt
Design Frontiers
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13 Jul 17
Halting the effects of global warming with artificial ice and massive blankets.
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Filmmaker Jessie Zinn on telling truthful and sincere stories
Design Frontiers
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10 Jul 17
The director is one of a growing list of young female Cape Town filmmakers making their mark in the industry.
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Swiss-born Rafael Kouto wants to dewesternise fashion
Design Frontiers
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4 Jul 17
"The next big thing in fashion is open source and engagement of the consumer in the creative process."
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Lucy Feng’s work plays with African mysticism and modern Afropunk culture
Design Frontiers
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3 Jul 17
Called ‘The Strangelings’, the images moodily blend the surreal and the regal.
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Dough Universe: the children’s toy range inspiring future inventors
Design Frontiers
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26 Jun 17
Technology Will Save Us launches three new Electro Dough inspired activities.
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This futuristic cultural centre is inspired by the sea
Design Frontiers
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21 Jun 17
Vincent Callebaut Architects’ latest conceptual project draws inspiration from the manta ray to make a floating cultural hub in Seoul.
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Introducing MobyMart, the autonomous grocery store on wheels
Design Frontiers
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19 Jun 17
“It is the store that comes to you, instead of you coming to the store.”
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An art invention to encourage more silence in our cities
Design Frontiers
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13 Jun 17
The Silent Room invites people to come in, for up to 30 minutes and “not perform or achieve anything, but just to be”.
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From harvesting fungi from the body to hormone infused cocktails, are these the products of the future?
Design Frontiers
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12 Jun 17
Beirut Design Week's Speculative Needs exhibition is not as far-fetched as one might think.
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Minutiae: The ‘anti-social’ app gives your more mundane moments meaning
Design Frontiers
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5 Jun 17
“YOU ARE NOT YOUR TIMELINE.”
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Combatting Algeria’s harsh weather conditions with houses made from plastic bottles
Design Frontiers
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1 Jun 17
These durable homes are safely housing the region’s refugee population.
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This footwear startup is using 3D imaging technology to give you the perfect fit
Design Frontiers
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31 May 17
True Gault deliberately avoids traditional sizing to ensure a truly comfortable shoe.
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Boyan Slat’s Ocean CleanUp System promises to rid our oceans of plastic garbage
Design Frontiers
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18 May 17
"To catch the plastic, act like plastic.
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Flexible, organic and biodegradable: A new wave of electronics
Design Frontiers
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4 May 17
A new semiconductor developed by Stanford researchers is as flexible as skin and easily degradable.
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African innovation improves treatment of gunshot wounds
Design Frontiers
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2 May 17
This new device is revolutionising the way trauma is treated.
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A ‘super’ key that cannot be copied by the masses
Design Frontiers
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2 May 17
The Stealth Key is 3D printed and nearly impossible to replicate.
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Click Play: 3 Masters of product
Design Frontiers
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1 May 17
Product designers shape how we live and these graduates are at the forefront of exactly that.
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Making sneakers sustainable with the ‘Shoetopia’ project
Design Frontiers
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26 Apr 17
Two Polish students are challenging traditional methods of shoe production with their 3D-printed sneaker.
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Synthetic skin could return touch to amputees
Design Frontiers
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25 Apr 17
Researchers have combined solar power and electronic skin for the first time.
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The bold, mixed-media collages of Kasmir Jones
Design Frontiers
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24 Apr 17
The American artist’s work pays tribute to black cultural icons.
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3D printing with Martian dust
Design Frontiers
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24 Apr 17
A technique to aid in the development of the first Mars colony.
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