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Say goodbye to toothpaste with this Japanese design
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Product Design
Japanese designer Kosho Ueshima has created Misoka, a nanotech toothbrush that cleans your teeth without toothpaste.
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22 Sep 15
Trailer: Ackeem Ngwenya on design for rural Africa
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African Design
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Designer and recent graduate Akeem Ngwenya says scarcity in Africa is a blank canvas for designers.
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22 Sep 15
Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse and TextielLab collaborate on a knitted solar curtain
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Two Netherlands-based organisations are on the frontier of energy-harvesting textile design.
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22 Sep 15
Narrowing in on some of Japan’s most peculiar creations
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Product Design
Edible art, wearable tech, and candy designs are all part of what makes Japan’s tech scene one of the craziest.
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21 Sep 15
Buddy: The next generation smart wearable for dogs
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Product Design
Lighting, GPS tracking, health sensors, and home automation are all features in Squeaker’s new dog collar.
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17 Sep 15
Nigerian students design software for visually impaired mobile users
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Obafemi Awolowo University engineering students have built Humane – an app to make smartphone features more accessible to the blind.
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16 Sep 15
Zuby Onwuta on ThinkAndZoom, the revolutionary tech wearable
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Tech innovator Zuby Onwuta has designed a tech wearable that will help the visually impaired perform daily tasks.
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16 Sep 15
Chew your coffee: It’s good for your brain
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Product Design
Go Cubes may be the next best thing for those willing to forgo the artsy coffee-crave Instagram post.
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16 Sep 15
Heart-In-A-Box: The device set to revolutionise transplant surgery
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Product Design
A medical device company has created a box capable of keeping organs alive long after removal from the body.
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15 Sep 15
Egyptian studio designs contemporary furniture from handmade, recycled material
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Product Design
With a belief that design can solve problems, Reform Studio developed a material from reused plastic bags, which now forms the basis of its designs.
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14 Sep 15
Tia Blassingame: Combating racism through letter press printing
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Designer and book artist Tia Blassingame uses the printed word to give her thoughts on racism in the United States a form of authority.
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10 Sep 15
Inventors use gravity to create safe, clean light
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A light powered by gravity is GravityLight’s solution to the health and environmental hazards of kerosene lamps.
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10 Sep 15
Eatwell is tailor-made for people with Alzheimer's disease
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Design Activism
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Something as simple as tableware could ease the everyday troubles of Alzheimer's patients.
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9 Sep 15
Surviving severe drought is top of this designer’s priorities
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Product Design
Design graduate Jaime Tai uses a natural sugar to help ensure drought survival.
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9 Sep 15
Three innovative ways to combat toxic air
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Three student designers have proposed interactive, health conscious ways to deal with air pollution.
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8 Sep 15
Trailer: Tia Blassingame on the texture of racism in the United States
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Design Activism
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Recent graduate Tia Blassingame explores the relationships between race, history and perception in her work.
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8 Sep 15
The texture of racism & slavery in the United States – a talk by Tia Blassingame
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"I made a headscarf that talks about the accumulation of wealth through slavery, as the black body as gold but also seeming worthless."
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8 Sep 15
Koe Koe, Myanmar's first health app, is going to revolutionise healthcare in the country
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Information Design
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Koe Koe Tech founder Michael Lwin says he is going to fix Myanmar's healthcare with this comprehensive mobile app.
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8 Sep 15
Myanmar: Battling poverty with human-centred design
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Design Activism
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Proximity Design’s creations help people in Myanmar survive in extreme poverty.
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7 Sep 15
The CimaVax vaccine is Cuba's most recent gift to cancer treatment
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Creative Economy
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The Centre of Molecular Immunology in Cuba is making great strides in cancer research with a new vaccine.
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4 Sep 15
Dominic Wilcox reveals crazy breakfast tech
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Product Design
British designer Dominic Wilcox was challenged by Kellogs to change the face of breakfast time, and he answered in the most Wilcox way possible.
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3 Sep 15
South African research team makes solar energy breakthrough
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Researchers at Stellenbosch University have created a solar collection system to rival the most cutting edge facilities.
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1 Sep 15
Gaborone-based Peter Mabeo is gaining respect on the global design stage
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Architecture & Interiors
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Peter Mabeo is collaborating with revered contemporary designers and his Gaborone-based design studio is making a splash on the international design fair scene.
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1 Sep 15
Technological disobedience: Cuba's amateur inventors create without resources
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Design Thinking
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Limited resources and very little access to legal trade forced Cubans to create machines using household objects.
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31 Aug 15
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