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Artificial neurons able to learn human language

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Information Design

ANNABELL, a new cognitive model, is able to learn language organically, without the need for pre-coded responses. >

17 Nov 15
These classrooms are designed to help children with ADHD focus

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Israeli architect Lior Ben-Sheetrit designed an innovative classroom to assist children with ADHD to focus and learn better. >

16 Nov 15
Soft robots are the way of the future

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

A 3-D-printed robotic hand made out of silicone rubber does what its predecessors can’t – handle objects as delicate as an egg. >

13 Nov 15
Transparent solar panels: Any surface could be a power source

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

Researchers are developing a completely transparent solar panel and it’s set to be a game-changer. >

10 Nov 15
Sun tracking cell inspired by ancient Japanese art

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Researchers have tapped into the past to find solutions to energy problems in the modern world. >

6 Nov 15
Healthcare wearable provides stats at a glance

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Vivi makes it possible for a surgeon to check a patient’s vitals without looking away. >

4 Nov 15
VizSnap: Facilitating photography for the blind

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The visually impaired take photos too, says Dustin Adams, the designer of VizSnap. >

3 Nov 15
Ants inspire the super material of the future

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

A 10-year study into the properties of fire ants has put researchers on a path to a self-healing material. >

30 Oct 15
An app designed to help refugees locate missing family

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

Refunite is a free platform with an anonymous database of more than 405,000 users and an estimated 1 500 family reunions. >

30 Oct 15
Virtual landscape could predict Alzheimer’s disease years before onset

Design Frontiers > Interaction Design

Scientists in Germany claim to have found a way to detect Alzheimer’s disease using a virtual maze. >

27 Oct 15
A wearable translates sign language into English

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Researchers are working on a high-tech wearable to bridge the gap between the deaf and those who don’t understand sign language. >

23 Oct 15
Teen scientist's device harvests the ocean's untapped energy

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

A 15-year-old scientist designed a low-cost device that harvests the ocean's energy to provide power to the developing world. >

20 Oct 15
This talking robot could be the future of smartphones

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Japanese tech company Sharp have designed a 19 centimetre talking, dancing, waving smartphone-robot. >

16 Oct 15
Scientists have come up with a design for a real life forcefield

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Researchers at defence company Boeing are working on a futuristic cloaking device to protect vehicles against the hidden battlefield killer: shockwaves. >

13 Oct 15
Mushroom power could enhance smartphones, electric cars and more

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

The ability of the Portobello mushroom to make things better has extended beyond food and into technology. >

6 Oct 15
An encounter between space travel and grief in this 3D animation

Design Frontiers > Film & Animation

French filmmaking collective BRVTVS, create a hi-tech, futuristic music video set in deep space that captures the raw human emotion of grief. >

2 Oct 15
Origami-inspired dress fits at every stage of pregnancy

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Designers have come up with a wearable flexible enough to expand with its pregnant user. >

2 Oct 15
Autonomous tree-planting robot to tackle forest restoration

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

Two university students embarked on a labour of love to create an independent tree-planting robot. >

29 Sep 15
Could drones be the answer to shortages in rural Africa?

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism

Foster + Partners plan to overcome rural Africa's infrastructure weaknesses using a drone delivery system. >

25 Sep 15
When style calls, the real Crystal Birch stands up

Design Frontiers > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

South African stylist and milliner Crystal Birch adds an eccentric and brilliant touch to every project. >

23 Sep 15
Personalised 3D replicas allow doctors to take surgical practice runs

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Could a 3D-printed model of a patient’s heart make organ surgery easier, safer and faster? >

22 Sep 15
The Global Apollo Program: Making renewable energy cheaper than coal

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

The Global Apollo Program aims to assemble the greatest scientific minds to tackle renewable energy development. >

18 Sep 15
Heart-In-A-Box: The device set to revolutionise transplant surgery

Design Frontiers > Product Design

A medical device company has created a box capable of keeping organs alive long after removal from the body. >

15 Sep 15
Redesigning the human body

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Bigger is not always better, says artist Arne Hendricks, calling for the downsizing of the human race. >

11 Sep 15

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