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Oxygene is the plant-based green tyre of the future
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Industrial Design
Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, this innovation could become the norm for automobile design in years to come.
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12 Mar 18
Design Indaba video app launches on Android
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Interaction Design
Design Indaba’s new video app, featuring talks and interviews with the world’s creative leaders, launched this morning in the Google Play Store.
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29 Jan 14
Rapelang Rabana
Rapelang Rabana is a technology and internet entrepreneur in the Silicon Cape, Cape Town, and founder of ReKindle Learning.
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30 Oct 13
Life blood
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Design Thinking
In the social impact category of the Core77 Design Awards student category, a notable mention went to Haemobility Mobile Blood Donation.
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12 Jun 13
Carlo Ratti & Assaf Biderman: Our world is starting to talk back to us
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Urban & Landscape Design
MIT SENSEAble City Lab director and associate director Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman look to the digital future of cities.
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5 Apr 12
Health function
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Product Design
Taking functional jewellery to a whole new level, Jawbone’s UP wristband helps you monitor your health.
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7 Nov 11
Blog: TedX Stellenbosch 2011
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
The city was the canvas for design interventions at the 2011 Stellenbosch TedX event.
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30 Jul 11
Mobile sauna
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Urban & Landscape Design
Keen for a steamy session? Enjoy one on the move with the Bicycle Sauna by H3T Architects.
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3 Jun 11
Future visions
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Festarch festival explores visions of a future city that prioristises civil engagement, shared spaces and an open society.
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3 Jun 11
Waterfall light at Milan2011
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Product Design
Drawing its form from a rhizomatic composition, Matali Crasset’s new pendant lamp is reminiscent of a waterfall.
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4 Apr 11
DI2011 Design Indabar at National Gallery
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Music & Sound Design
Design Indabar presented by Grolsch at the National Gallery, during Design Indaba 2011, was a celebration of local creativity.
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11 Mar 11
Head space
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Information Design
The Jawbone Era is a mobile accessory that is set to change the way we use and interact with headsets.
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24 Jan 11
Jamming
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Jawbone has just announced the launch of Jambox, the world's first intelligent wireless speaker and speakerphone.
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4 Nov 10
Digital view
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Interaction Design
Jon Stam’s Imaginary Museum prototype project explores the ways in which we ascribe meaning to our virtual experiences.
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27 Oct 10
Mobile lifeline
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Design Thinking
The Lifeplayer is a new mobile innovation with the potential to dramatically improve the state of education in Africa.
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18 Sep 10
Legends of Echo
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Interaction Design
The Grid, Vodacom’s Social Mobile Network, recently launched South Africa’s first location-based, multi-player online mobile game.
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12 Jun 10
Afridoctor diagnosing direct from your handset
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Africa’s first personal mobile health clinic took first place in the Nokia Africa Calling All Innovators application competition.
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10 Apr 10
Baby monitor wins SABS
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Industrial Design
Cape Town product development consultancy ...XYZ, scoop three awards at the SABS Design Excellence Awards for mobile baby monitor, SNUZA.
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25 Mar 10
Reflect your creativity
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Illustrator Joshua Davis has applied his algorithms to his new Reflect iPhone application.
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4 Nov 09
SMS with fish
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Amphibious Architecture is a visual interface that offers a looking glass into the aquatic ecosystem through SMSes.
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1 Nov 09
Hands-free viral
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Product Design
Cow Africa is a small agency in Cape Town that specialise in guerrilla marketing through stunts, the web and mobile.
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1 Aug 09
Locomotion, manipulation, conversation
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Interaction Design
Father of interaction design, Bill Moggridge talks about creating the technology landscape of the future.
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1 Feb 08
Electric avenue
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Urban & Landscape Design
To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of the electric car's death have been greatly exaggerated. Fiona Zerbst discovers the Tesla.
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1 Aug 07
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