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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
Design Frontiers
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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
The ‘dirty’ way Toyota is creating cleaner fuel
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
Would you drive a car powered by poo?
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24 Oct 16
Speeding up physiotherapy with soft robotics
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
A Swiss lab develops robotic exoskeleton tech for good.
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21 Oct 16
Disrupting expensive city housing with Big World Homes
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Affordable, flat-packed homes that rethink the way people live.
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21 Oct 16
The ‘glow-in-the-dark’, energy-efficient cycle lane
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
This unique solar-powered bicycle path is guiding Poland’s nighttime cyclists.
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20 Oct 16
Open source wheelchair for developing countries
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African Design
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Product Design
The SafariSeat by Kenya-based design team Uji is an open-source wheelchair specially tailored to the needs of people living in rural communities.
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19 Oct 16
Heart-monitoring smart watch empowers wearers to live longer lives
Design Frontiers
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The iBeat is a life-saving wearable for every age.
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17 Oct 16
Hyperloop concept could be the railway transport of tomorrow
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Design Thinking
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Industrial Design
Take a look at SpaceX’s evolution of maglev trains.
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17 Oct 16
The drone you can eat
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Edible and unmanned, this drone could be a game-changer for aid delivery.
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17 Oct 16
Pauline van Dongen’s latest invention is a shirt designed to correct your posture
Design Frontiers
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Eliminate slouching with this smart addition to your wardrobe.
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14 Oct 16
How to make roads work for you
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Design Thinking
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Industrial Design
Solar Roadways, a US-based startup, imagines a world that is navigated by efficient, power-generating roads.
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11 Oct 16
Humans and algae: An interdependence
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Design Thinking
A future where fresh air is inside not outside.
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11 Oct 16
Ugly produce for a better world
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Art & Photography
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Food Design
That wonky-looking vegetable in your pantry could be the key to solving world-hunger.
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5 Oct 16
Future of food: Diary of a cell farmer
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Design Thinking
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Food Design
Imagine beef without cows and eggs without chickens. Cellular agriculture can serve up food with no animals.
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4 Oct 16
Turning famine into feasts: Insects as the livestock of tomorrow
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Creative Economy
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Design Thinking
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Food Design
Consider Nordic Food Labs - the science kitchen that makes bugs a more tasty prospect.
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3 Oct 16
Mars colonisation: Three fundamental questions
Design Frontiers
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Creative Economy
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Design Thinking
Efforts are mounting to get us on the red planet - why, how and who?
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30 Sep 16
Cáustico: Speculating the future of water access
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
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Film & Animation
What happens to society if drinking water becomes our most lucrative resource?
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28 Sep 16
Snapchat enters the wearable tech market with ‘Spectacles’
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Product Design
Can the social media app succeed where giants like Google Glass have failed?
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28 Sep 16
Gaia telescopes chart largest map of the Universe ever
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Design Thinking
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Information Design
The observation mission of ESA has returned its first crop of cosmic images – and it’s huge.
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22 Sep 16
High school student builds app to help kids make friends
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
Introducing an app to help navigate the unnerving world of high school lunch breaks.
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19 Sep 16
Wool shoes to save the environment
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Product Design
Introducing Allbirds: the comfortable, eco-friendly sneaker.
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19 Sep 16
Woke & Broke: A collection for the socially conscious
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African Design
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Art & Photography
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
South Africa has recently seen the rise of student activism in its university spaces. But even the “woke” need to recharge.
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16 Sep 16
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