Custom-shaped solar panels are helping to popularise the use of solar panels because of their flexibility and versatility. >

A reinterpretation of the pixel creates a new, modular and tangible lighting system. >

The Grid, Vodacom’s Social Mobile Network, recently launched South Africa’s first location-based, multi-player online mobile game. >

In conjunction with the launch of his latest album, The Secret Song, DJ Spooky has launched a DJ-mixing iPhone app of the same name. >

Design Indaba and Foodcorp present a professional workshop by Nils Noren, vice president of culinary arts at the French Culinary Institute. >

The third-generation One Laptop Per Child has launched providing education and easier access to information to children around the world. >

Underpinning this edition is the Protofarm 2050 project, which Design Indaba presented at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore. >

Stuart McMillen presents a cartoon visualisation of two of the best-known futurist doctrines. >

Amphibious Architecture is a visual interface that offers a looking glass into the aquatic ecosystem through SMSes. >

Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and Design Indaba 2007 speaker, Professor Neil Gershenfeld weighs in on the craft debate. >