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A tiny, smart patch could replace insulin shots for diabetes sufferers
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Product Design
A painless patch could mean that millions of diabetes sufferers no longer have to inject themselves to correct their insulin levels.
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16 Mar 16
Welcome to Germany is a cellphone app for refugees
Design Frontiers
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Information Design
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Product Design
A smart application provides migrants with much-needed information about life in Germany.
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16 Mar 16
An innovative way to extinguish a fire
Design News
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Product Design
The Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball uses a chemical blast to control unexpected fires.
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16 Mar 16
Auto-focus specs adapts lenses to near and farsighted vision
Design News
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Product Design
Deep Optics’ omnifocals automatically adjust focus, providing the wearer with improved vision.
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15 Mar 16
Tiny surgical tools inspired by origami
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
Researchers were able to do away with bulky surgical parts and rely instead on the principles of origami.
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15 Mar 16
Saving a font from extinction
Design Frontiers
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Product Design
Reviving a forgotten font designed by Alvin Lustig, an iconic, contemporary American graphic designer.
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11 Mar 16
A new, sustainable way to make plastic
Design Frontiers
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Researchers at Stanford have found a way to create sustainable plastic using inedible plant materials.
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11 Mar 16
Rope made out of plastic bottles
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
A really handy tool from a runaway Kickstarter campaign.
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10 Mar 16
Old tennis rackets become colourful works of art
Product Spotlight
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Product Design
Cape Town local Danielle Clough has many inventive outlets, but her embroidery has caught the attention of the creative world.
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9 Mar 16
Perfect man-made waves
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Product Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
Kelly Slater's high-performance, man-made wave pool has been met with scepticism in the industry.
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8 Mar 16
Sideways driving with Goodyear’s latest concept tyre
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
International tyre company Goodyear has revealed the spherical-shaped, smart tyre of the future.
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8 Mar 16
Leaving design up to chance
Design News
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
Origami-inspired game randomises the textile design process, encouraging the creation of new knowledge.
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8 Mar 16
High-tech repository for the dead
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
Ruri Den is an alternative to burial sites for space-starved cities like Tokyo
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7 Mar 16
Wearable technology for the visually impaired
Design Frontiers
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African Design
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Product Design
Wearable technology from Cairo describes oncoming objects to its users
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4 Mar 16
Shape-shifting textile cloud can change sound quality in a room
Product Spotlight
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
BLOOM is a knitted origami surface that can alter the ambient acoustics of public spaces.
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4 Mar 16
Saphon Energy creates new wind-harnessing technology
Design Frontiers
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Creative Economy
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Design Activism
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Product Design
This Tunisian startup didn’t reinvent the wind turbine; instead, they created a new technology.
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3 Mar 16
Zami Life: A stool for smart sitting in an age of inactivity
Design News
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Product Design
The Zami smart stool promotes healthy living through innovative furniture design.
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3 Mar 16
Miniature art scenes inspired by film
Design Frontiers
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Craft
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Product Design
This artist forgets about time when she creates her painstakingly detailed dioramas.
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2 Mar 16
A moss wall that creates clean, green energy
Next Generation
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Product Design
Graduate Elena Mitrofanova has designed a modular system that generates electricity from moss.
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2 Mar 16
MIT researchers reveal world's thinnest solar cell
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
A team at MIT have created an ultra-thin solar cell that could open up new applications for solar power in the long term.
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1 Mar 16
Empowering women with skills and business acumen
Product Spotlight
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Creative Economy
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Product Design
WomenWeave is a charitable trust helping artisan weavers trade on the global Market.
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29 Feb 16
One week left to enter the A’ Design Awards
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Entries for all categories of the prestigious A’ Design Awards have now been extended to 7 March.
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29 Feb 16
Modern furniture from reclaimed wood
Product Spotlight
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African Design
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Product Design
Siyanda Mazibuko is a self-taught furniture designer who upcycles wood and into functional products.
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26 Feb 16
Futuristic pod-like dwellings at an affordable price
Product Spotlight
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
These lightweight and modern homes are delivered ready for occupation.
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25 Feb 16
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