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This nippy little device is the world’s smallest phone charger

Weighing in at only ten grams, The Nipper is small enough to fit on your key-ring. >
James Boock's 3-way sound system puts the performance back into music

Royal College of Art graduate James Boock has designed a sound system, which allows listeners to see how music is created by making it a more tangible process. >
Dominic Wilcox reveals crazy breakfast tech

British designer Dominic Wilcox was challenged by Kellogs to change the face of breakfast time, and he answered in the most Wilcox way possible. >
Edible Cinema adds another dimension to film

The collaborative effort of the Soho House and Teatime Productions aims to add bespoke edible creations to cinema. >
James Greenfield on how to rebrand a multi-billion dollar company

The creative director behind Airbnb’s largely publicised rebranding discusses his approach to branding projects. >
The post-antibiotics era is near and the solution could be in your backyard

Vidhi Mehta posits that Post/Biotics can establish a global database that will help scientists find substances that could hold the potential for new antibiotics >
Peter Bellerby is a throwback to the days before Google Maps

Before mass produced globes and Google Maps, handmade globes held the monopoly on the navigation market. Now, Peter Bellerby is reviving the dying art. >
Ally Form can prevent accident victims from bleeding out

Ally Form by Ela Neagu is changing the home first aid kit with an easy-to-use self-applicable bandage designed to stop bleeding out from severe wounds. >
Géraldine Biard's designs relieve dementia sufferers

French designer Géraldine Biard’s new furniture collection aims to relieve the stress of dementia. >
Bompas and Parr's breathable cocktail cloud leaves visitors in high spirits

Meteorology and mixology collide in Bompas and Parr’s latest project, Alcoholic Architecture, a bar with an intoxicating atmosphere. >
The happy union of plastic water sachets and vernacular architecture

Architecture student Anna Webster uses the plastic water sachets made popular in marathons as a key element in the design of this Ghanaian mud hut. >
Brands must take control and help move culture forwards

“It may be an unfashionable and elitist mindset,” says Chris Clarke, CCO of DigitasLBI in London, “but brands can and should take control in shaping culture.” >
Alexandra Lucas’ space suit for life on another planet

Textile designer and Central Saint Martins alumnus imagines a mission to Mars in her space-inspired textiles. >
Fashion designer adds another dimension to garment design

A Taiwanese-born fashion designer has established a 3D-weaving method to create futuristic sculptural garments. >
Nigerian opera is sung in Pidgin English

The Pavarotti of Nigerian opera is here: she’s a woman singing in Pidgin English. >
Illustrator Paul Pateman talks about the pursuit of happiness in his work

London-based graphic artist Paul Pateman, better known by the alias Pâté, has a good amount of humour in his work and a strong and simple aesthetic. >
Images of adolescence in Francesca Allen's "Girls! Girls! Girls!"

London-based photographer Francesca Allen captures the strength and fragility of female adolescence in her five-year-long series "Girls! Girls! Girls!" >
Get lost in the curious maps of Jenni Sparks

London-based illustrator Jenni Sparks creates hand-drawn maps that capture the character of the place they describe. >
Graphic dresses fashioned out of false fingernails

Central Saint Martins graduate Anna Goswami repurposes plastic nails from kitsch to couture. >
Ejector bed literally launches you out of dreamland

YouTube star and engineer Colin Furze has built a bedframe that rockets you out of bed before you get a chance to hit the snooze button. >
This wearable uses your skin to enhance your body awareness

Flair is a wearable that uses the sensors in your skin to enhance your perception of your body and the world around you. >
Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry in her textiles

The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections. >
Trailer: Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry through her textiles

The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections. >
This shower turns into a monster if you use too much water

Installation artist Elisabeth Buecher created this Tim Burton-inspired shower curtain that inflates into spikes to stop you using too much water. >

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