2016 Archive

Project Nourished: A virtual reality experience that tricks your taste buds

Design Frontiers • Duration: 00:00:09 • 12 Jul 16

Experience designer Jinsoo An’s Project Nourished creates virtual worlds where any food dream is possible. >
Flare, the ambulance Uber in Nairobi

Design Frontiers • 12 Jul 16

Using an integrated ambulance dispatch system, Flare is a next-generation tech product that cuts hours to minutes in medical emergencies in East Africa. >
New controller allows upper-limb amputees to play video games using their feet

Design Frontiers • 13 Jul 16

GEAR’s creators say it allows amputees to control video game characters with the same precision as able-bodied users. >
Would we modify our skyline for the sake of mental wellbeing?

Design Frontiers • 14 Jul 16

Phong Nguyen’s speculative project looks at how far we’d go to treat mental illness. >
It’s not an organism but it’s certainly alive, says the creator of the cyborg stingray

Design Frontiers • 15 Jul 16

In an effort to learn more about the heart and its functions, researchers created a living cyborg using the cells of rat’s heart. >
Take me to your feeder! Scientists successfully farm edible crops in Martian soil

Design Frontiers • 15 Jul 16

Scientists at Wageningen University have successfully grown edible cereals and vegetables including peas, radishes, tomatoes and rye in Martian soil. >
Researchers are a step closer to an invisibility cloak for objects

Design Frontiers • 19 Jul 16

“Cloak” device makes objects seem invisible by making curved surfaces seem flat. >
LuxAI and the future of social robots

Design Frontiers • 22 Jul 16

Social robots that can be programmed by everyone could change the educational or health system. >
EyeControl: The first screen-free device for ALS patients

Design Frontiers • 25 Jul 16

Often patients with ALS are "locked in" and unable to speak or use their limbs. With EyeControl, "locked-in" patients can communicate using eye-scrolling tech. >
The Mine Kafon Drone could rid the world of land mines in 10 years

Design Frontiers • 26 Jul 16

Landmines kill or maim 10 civilians every day. Product designer Massoud Hassani’s latest drone innovation wants to solve the problem in our lifetime. >
Bringing bones to life: Artist prototypes a hand grown out of stem cells

Design Frontiers • 26 Jul 16

Artist Amy Karle’s Regenerative Reliquary is an open-source biotech project showcasing a human hand grown out of stem cells. >
Osmosis power: Mini generator creates energy from salt water

Design Frontiers • 28 Jul 16

Nanoscientist Aleksandra Radenovic, explores the wonder of osmosis (also known as blue energy) power generation. >
Changing fonts with our faces

Design Frontiers • 29 Jul 16

What if our fonts could reflect exactly what we feel? >
Combatting drought with orange peels

Design Frontiers • 29 Jul 16

Kiara Nirghin won the Google Science Fair Community Impact Award for her innovative creation of a super absorbent biodegradable polymer made from orange peels. >
6 ways we could change mobility and transport in the city

Design Frontiers • 5 Aug 16

From sensory deprivation clouds to government enforced carpooling, here are the ways design can address the challenges of transport. >
The clothing designed to sense unseen pollution

Design Frontiers • 5 Aug 16

In collaboration with UK scientists, artist Kasia Molga created garments that are able to measure the surrounding air quality. >
Interactive dynamic video is a game changer for Pokémon Go, VR and more

Design Frontiers • 11 Aug 16

Pokémon Go combines augmented reality and the real world, but this tech could take it a step further. >
Meet the girls of Malaville

Design Frontiers • 12 Aug 16

Model and businesswoman Mala Bryan’s debut doll collection is black girl magic. >
DuoSkin: Tattoo-like devices print tech on skin

Design Frontiers • 16 Aug 16

Using gold leaf metal, MIT researchers are placing customised, tattoo-like interfaces directly onto the skin of the user. >
In the pipeline: The new underwater motorways of Norway

Design Frontiers • Duration: 0:55 • 16 Aug 16

These submerged floating tubes may be the first step into trans-Atlantic road connections. >
Sustaining the memory of the ‘Black Mamba’

Design Frontiers • 16 Aug 16

Cryus Kabiru’s roadster fixation leads to imaginative and nostalgic sculptures. >
Project Florence: Opening communication with plant life

Design Frontiers • Duration: 2:21 • 18 Aug 16

Helene Steiner works to expand communication with plants. The resulting dialogue is bizarre and intriguing. >
No Man’s Sky: The videogame that conceives galaxies

Design Frontiers • Duration: 5:53 • 19 Aug 16

The 2016 offering of Hello Games is pushing the possibilities of open-world gameplay to new stratospheres. >
Buhle Ngaba’s The Girl Without A Sound

Design Frontiers • 22 Aug 16

Meet the young actress encouraging little girls to own their voice. >

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