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Me, Myself and You is a board game to help Autistic adults make friends
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Product Design
The multiplayer board game designed to facilitate social connections between those on the spectrum.
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28 Nov 16
Innovative capsule achieves long-term drug delivery
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Design Activism
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Design Thinking
This drug capsule offers an alternative to daily doses of medication
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25 Nov 16
New stick on patch uses sweat to monitor your health
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Product Design
The soft, flexible skin patch that can inspect your perspiration while you work out.
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25 Nov 16
The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars
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Film & Animation
Researchers speculate on the murky decision-making aptitude of AI vehicles.
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25 Nov 16
Pneumatic dome turns London park into a community haven
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Urban & Landscape Design
Madrid-based firm DOSIS creates inflatable, reconfigurable public space.
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18 Nov 16
‘The Crying Forest’: a striking reminder of the forces ravaging the Amazon
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Art & Photography
Philippe Echaroux’s artistic protest against the destruction of the rainforest.
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17 Nov 16
This USB stick doubles as an HIV testing kit
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Scientists based in the UK have developed a USB device that can quickly and accurately determine one's HIV status.
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17 Nov 16
Turning the tables with the Internet of Things
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Design Thinking
We use technology to experiment, test and customise our experiences. But what if it was the other way around?
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16 Nov 16
Athi-Patra Ruga debuts new performance piece at Performa 17 Biennale in New York
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Art & Photography
Dismantling the myth of the ‘Rainbow Nation’ through performance art.
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16 Nov 16
Smart streetlights powered by pedestrian footsteps
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Urban & Landscape Design
Clean-tech startup EnGoPlanet harnesses kinetic energy to potentially power cities around the world.
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15 Nov 16
Photographer Loes Heerink captures the beauty of Vietnam’s street trade
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Art & Photography
‘Vendors From Above’ - a collection of aerial shots of the vivid hawkers of Hanoi.
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15 Nov 16
The untapped light & utility of plants
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Design Thinking
Turning plants into sources of energy and light.
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14 Nov 16
What if your teeth could heal themselves?
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Product Design
These biosynthetic tooth fillings could mean the end of root canals.
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11 Nov 16
Sunflare develops the world’s first stick-on solar paneling
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Industrial Design
The new ultra-thin solar wallpaper can be applied to just about anything.
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10 Nov 16
MIT scientists engineer spinach to detect explosives
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Design Thinking
This research team has found a way to infuse the vegetable with super powers.
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10 Nov 16
MIT breaks new ground with “soft” aeroplane wing
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Design Thinking
The lightweight structure is a modular, flexible advancement in the field of soft robotics.
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9 Nov 16
De-Formance by Jessica Smarsch
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Film & Animation
De-Formance is a unique project that investigates the connection between design and movement.
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4 Nov 16
Harvard researchers develop world's first 3D-printed heart on a chip
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Could this development mean the beginning of the end of animal product testing? Harvard researchers have developed a tiny heart that is 3D-printed on a chip.
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3 Nov 16
Capturing South Korea’s deep-sea diving women
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Art & Photography
See Hyung S. Kim’s breathtaking portraits of the sea women of Jeju.
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2 Nov 16
VR world creates empathy through action
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Interaction Design
Immersive yourself in our dying planet to foster tangible change.
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31 Oct 16
Photos capable of producing electricity developed by Finnish Researchers
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Design Thinking
What if that photo on your mantle could help power your kettle?
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31 Oct 16
The Shit Museum sells you crap
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Product Design
Not all shit is waste: Merdacotta is a material made of cow manure and clay that pushes you to see the potential of poo.
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26 Oct 16
Sensing strain in the body with new fibre optics
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Design Thinking
These refined fibres could one day revolutionise neuroscience and brain treatment.
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26 Oct 16
Student designed device to investigate the Arctic’s underwater environment
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Industrial Design
The DeepFreezeROV promises to expand our understanding of a world we can’t see.
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25 Oct 16
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