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Shaped for solar success
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Custom-shaped solar panels are helping to popularise the use of solar panels because of their flexibility and versatility.
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30 Aug 10
Orchestral innovation
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Music & Sound Design
What do you get when you combine maths, physics, digital art, design, electronics and music? A symphony, of sorts.
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1 Jul 10
Pixel power at Basil2010
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A reinterpretation of the pixel creates a new, modular and tangible lighting system.
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28 Jun 10
Taxi!
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South Africa's 12th unofficial language doesn't use words but hand signals. They're fun, useful and give insights into taxi commuting.
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22 Jun 10
Legends of Echo
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The Grid, Vodacom’s Social Mobile Network, recently launched South Africa’s first location-based, multi-player online mobile game.
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12 Jun 10
Afridoctor diagnosing direct from your handset
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Africa’s first personal mobile health clinic took first place in the Nokia Africa Calling All Innovators application competition.
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10 Apr 10
Play DJ with Spooky iPhone app
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Music & Sound Design
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.
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29 Mar 10
Troika answers all at DI2010
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Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel of Troika electrified with their playful and thoroughly executed interaction designs.
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15 Mar 10
Culinary workshop for the new age at DI2010
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Food Design
Design Indaba and Foodcorp present a professional workshop by Nils Noren, vice president of culinary arts at the French Culinary Institute.
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20 Feb 10
Past-life digital dreams
Profiling
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Interaction Design
Nadine Botha speaks to Troika whose experiments and installations raise questions about the real function of technology.
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9 Feb 10
The education tablet
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The third-generation One Laptop Per Child has launched providing education and easier access to information to children around the world.
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3 Feb 10
Techno poetry with Troika at DI2010
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Interaction Design
Founded in 2003, the multi-disciplinary art and design practice have found remarkable outlets for their social interventions.
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7 Dec 09
Design Indaba magazine farms the future
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Design Thinking
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Design Thinking
Underpinning this edition is the Protofarm 2050 project, which Design Indaba presented at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore.
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19 Nov 09
Protofarm 2050
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Design Thinking
Design Indaba will be presenting Protofarm 2050 at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore from 23 to 25 November.
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3 Nov 09
Amusing ourselves to death
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Stuart McMillen presents a cartoon visualisation of two of the best-known futurist doctrines.
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3 Nov 09
Hartmut Esslinger on the DNA of Design
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Through case studies and analysis of process and product, Hartmut Esslinger deconstructs the DNA of design and advises on design survival.
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2 Nov 09
SMS with fish
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Amphibious Architecture is a visual interface that offers a looking glass into the aquatic ecosystem through SMSes.
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1 Nov 09
Mould robots
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Interaction Design
Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first-ever biological robot using mould.
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1 Nov 09
Nathan Reddy
Nathan Reddy is the Digital and Communications curator for Design Indaba Expo 2015.
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10 Feb 09
Bracelets with megabyte
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Craft
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African Design
Beads leap the technology divide with these innovative USB bracelets by Africa!Ignite that combine fashion with info storage.
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1 Feb 09
Craft debate: Professor Neil Gershenfeld
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Craft
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Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and Design Indaba 2007 speaker, Professor Neil Gershenfeld weighs in on the craft debate.
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1 Feb 09
Dog tag for dating
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Industrial Design
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Ever sat at work and wondered what your pooch is up to? Put your idle thoughts to rest with SNIF, developed by Readymade in Pretoria.
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1 Feb 09
Gadget: Purpose wanted
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Information Design
The Chumby, a real geek's toy, is an internet-connected touchscreen device. It's thoroughly open-source and runs widgets on Linux software.
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19 Aug 08
Cultural nomad
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Urban & Landscape Design
The talents of the Indian-born, Amsterdam-based product designer Satyendra Pakhalé migrate happily from one design oasis to the next.
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1 Nov 05
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