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Focus on: Bugs
Why we should eat bugs, how we can save the bees and other inspect-related innovations.
The dummy's guide to cricket fondue
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Food Design
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Product Design
Would we be more willing to eat insects if the recipes came with specially designed cutlery and cooking utensils?
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6 Dec 16
Cyborg insects map out disaster zones
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Drawing virtual images of unsafe areas with miniature flying robots.
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23 Nov 16
Do insects like the way we taste?
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Design Thinking
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Food Design
To Flavour Our Tears places humans on the other end of the food chain.
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21 Nov 16
RoboBees and the future of pollination
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Design Activism
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Design Thinking
Are scientists about to replace bees?
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14 Nov 16
The first bee born in captivity
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Design Thinking
The Synthetic Apiary proposes an alternative living arrangement for bees.
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17 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
Mapping the invisible world of microbes with bees
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Design Thinking
How insects are helping a team of scientists and designers understand our microbial surroundings.
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2 Sep 16
Quirky Beedapest Hotel houses travelling bees
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Design Activism
Visit the Rose Lemon Restaurant at the Grand Beedapest Hotel, a resting spot for urban bees.
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25 Jul 16
Edible insects: Won’t you pass the bugs?
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Graphic Design & Illustration
NB Studio reimagines major food brands and chains with insects as their main ingredients.
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17 May 16
Cricket Shelter: A modular way to farm food
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Architecture & Interiors
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Food Design
Terreform ONE’s latest contribution to hybrid architecture is a modular urban insect farm that promises to be a sustainable food hub.
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5 May 16
Scientists develop a search-and-rescue robot based on a cockroach
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Product Design
Like a cockroach, this robot can squeeze through small spaces and be used by first-response rescue teams to find people in disaster-stricken areas.
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16 Feb 16
LIVIN Farm’s Hive lets you grow and farm your own mealworms
Product Spotlight
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Food Design
A desktop hive for the kitchen allows users to feed, farm then eat their own mealworms.
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25 Nov 15
Australian beekeepers now have honey on tap
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Food Design
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Product Design
Australian beekeeping father and son have spent a decade inventing every beekeepers dream: a device that enables them to harvest honey on tap.
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10 Nov 15
Crawly couture
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
It might make us twitchy, but Hendrik Vermeulen's latest fashion collection is inspired by the intricate patterns of insects.
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3 Oct 14
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