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AbsorbPlate cuts calories by reducing grease on your plate

Product Spotlight > Product Design

The dinner plate’s design has perforations in its surface to trap excess grease. >

24 May 16
EnerGaia’s rival new production method for Spirulina

Product Spotlight > Food Design

Thailand-based EnerGaia has created a unique bioreactor to manufacture a purer Spirulina sustainably. >

28 Apr 16
Smart thermometer crowdsources info for real-time health tracking

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Kinsa’s Smart Thermometer is able to help individuals and communities map diseases before they spread. >

11 Apr 16
Poo pill designed to combat obesity

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Scientists at a United States hospital are using a freeze-dried pill made of faecal matter to treat obesity. >

15 Jan 16
doctHERs provides Pakistani women with healthcare via video-link

Design News > Design Activism / Information Design

The doctHERs initiative is an online platform that connects doctors to patients in need using technology. >

21 Dec 15
Totohealth is a mobile solution to healthcare problems

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

Totohealth uses SMS-technology to help parents take care of themselves and their children. >

14 Dec 15
Photographer captures the oppressive reality of anxiety

Design News > Art & Photography

Katie Crawford’s self-portraiture series captures the raw essence of anxiety. >

16 Nov 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
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
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
Inventors use gravity to create safe, clean light

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Product Design

A light powered by gravity is GravityLight’s solution to the health and environmental hazards of kerosene lamps. >

10 Sep 15
Eatwell is tailor-made for people with Alzheimer's disease

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

Something as simple as tableware could ease the everyday troubles of Alzheimer's patients. >

9 Sep 15
Surviving severe drought is top of this designer’s priorities

Design News > Product Design

Design graduate Jaime Tai uses a natural sugar to help ensure drought survival. >

9 Sep 15
EarthEnable brings clean, affordable floors to Rwanda

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

EarthEnable's mission to bring clean, affordable floors to Rwanda could lead to healthier lives. >

26 Aug 15
Bionic Lenses, the next step in eye treatment

Design Frontiers > Product Design

A Canadian optometrist and inventor is on the precipice of producing a bionic lens that could revolutionise eye treatment. >

19 Aug 15
Flo, the solution to the menstruation taboo in rural communities

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Product Design

A team of students have designed an efficient, eco-friendly way for impoverished adolescent girls to manage menstruation. >

18 Aug 15
Sweat wearable combines tech and body

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

A researcher has designed a textile coating that analyses the body’s sweat content to warn against dehydration. >

11 Aug 15
An app for allergy sufferers

Next Generation > Interaction Design

Two graduates of Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design have designed an early warning system that connects a special sensor to your smartphone. >

17 Nov 14
Using design thinking to help fight Ebola

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

OpenIDEO and USAID launch global call for innovative tools to help health-care workers on the frontlines of the virus. >

15 Oct 14
Focus on: Health care

Focus On > Industrial Design / Product Design

We often take it for granted but our health is one of our most important assets. Here we round up five designs that promote better health care. >

20 Jul 14
Andy Chen on an inside-out process to social design

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

For Andy Chen, design should be used to build empathy and to bring about social change. >

2 Jan 13
Easy does it

Design News > Product Design

Vitality Line is a new range of products, designed by Yves Béhar, aimed at making medication management products look less sterile and cheap. >

24 Jan 12
Nutritious labelling

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Renée Walker's food labels rethink how we receive nutritional information. >

21 Nov 11
Food fight: Christien Meindertsma

Design News > Food Design

Knowing what we eat is important for Dutch product designer Christien Meindertsma. >

15 Nov 11

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