2016 Archive

Healing, Movement, Stimulation: Design for phantom pain

Next Generation • 3 Aug 16

Central Saint Martins Material Futures graduate Niloufar Esfandiary has designed rehabilitation tools for post-amputation patients to prevent phantom limb pain. >
Match your body movements to the sound of your heart

Next Generation • 5 Aug 16

Material Futures graduate Lesley-Ann Daly looks into how wearables and implants can give the user a more visceral connection to their bodies. >
Intimate Strangers: When the madam is away, the help will slay

Next Generation • 10 Aug 16

Puleng Mongale's photo series Intimate Strangers will be released in instalments. The first part is a social commentary on labour relationships in South Africa. >
IDENTITY: The prosthetic replacements for fingerprint authentication

Next Generation • 26 Aug 16

Design student creates rubber fingertips to better protect your privacy. >
Oneware: The one-hand only kitchenware

Next Generation • 30 Aug 16

Singaporean Industrial Design student creates a range of utensils to aid those with disabilities in the kitchen. >
S’CoolBeans: the “stealth-health” sandwich spread

Next Generation • 6 Sep 16

Students develop nutritious alternative to Nutella in South Africa. >
BoneAid: An innovative approach to healing bone fractures

Next Generation • 8 Sep 16

These Taiwanese students have designed an adaptable splint to aid in medical care during disaster relief efforts. >
British student designs vaccine transportation kit that could save millions

Next Generation • 13 Sep 16

Introducing the Isobar, an ammonia absorption-based refrigerator for vaccines. >
This engineering student’s invention could revolutionise the renewable energy sector

Next Generation • 15 Sep 16

Lancaster University’s Abigail Carson invents innovative power storage solution. >
Luxury leather bags made from human skin

Next Generation • 19 Sep 16

Material Futures graduate Tina Gorjanc creates a collection of leather products made from the lab-grown skin of Alexander McQueen. >
The award-winning student design that could help save marine animals

Next Generation • 22 Sep 16

An innovative invention that helps wildlife recover from oil spills. >
Student-designed bottle cap could save drought-stricken California millions of litres of water

Next Generation • 27 Sep 16

The ‘Cap the Tap’ campaign is a simple way to curtail water wastage from household taps. >
Irish students develop new water-safety device

Next Generation • 29 Sep 16

See the tragedy-inspired invention shortlisted for the James Dyson Award. >
Fodder: the pop up dining experience that turns eating into an agricultural act

Next Generation • 3 Oct 16

Can we connect with the animals we consume by being fed their feed? >
Food production in a world without meat

Next Generation • 5 Oct 16

The rate at which we eat meat is not sustainable. A project by Central Saint Martins graduate Hanan Alkouh looks to replace pork with seaweed. >
Nigerian graduate designs gas-powered pressing iron

Next Generation • 12 Oct 16

The domestic creation of Ayokunle Adeniran tackles the difficulty of power outages. >
US student designs prosthetic hand-hack to aid one-handed violin player

Next Generation • 18 Oct 16

3D printed prosthetic helps this aspiring violinist reach for her dream. >
The Readi box provides communication in catastrophic situations

Next Generation • 18 Oct 16

Should all else fail, this speaker unit helps you to keep in touch during a disaster. >
Intimate Strangers: Izinja zempilo

Next Generation • 18 Oct 16

The third part of Intimate Strangers by South African Puleng Mogale is about brotherhood and friendship. Ride or die, friends to the end. >
Student invents ambulance drone for speedy medical assistance

Next Generation • 20 Oct 16

This engineering graduate is using drone tech as a force for good. >
Student thesis initiates award-winning community food project

Next Generation • 27 Oct 16

Blank Plate: The culinary design curriculum helping to navigate life in a ‘food desert’. >
Yuwote Charvet: The typeface that infuses African symbols with geometry

Next Generation • 28 Oct 16

Kevin Karanja explores African writing systems & 3D design. >
Fortifying long-distance connections through ambient light

Next Generation • 1 Nov 16

The Lightbound project is facilitating meaningful human connection with technology. >
New seamless waterproof garments

Next Generation • 1 Nov 16

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Wendy Andreu has developed a series of craft-inspired waterproof garments that are not sewn or cut into patterns. >

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