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New stick on patch uses sweat to monitor your health

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The soft, flexible skin patch that can inspect your perspiration while you work out. >

25 Nov 16
The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Film & Animation

Researchers speculate on the murky decision-making aptitude of AI vehicles. >

25 Nov 16
Cyborg insects map out disaster zones

Design News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Drawing virtual images of unsafe areas with miniature flying robots. >

23 Nov 16
Designing for the bigger picture with Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe

Talks > Design Thinking

It’s all a matter of perception. >

22 Nov 16
Sewer to design: Products made from reclaimed toilet paper

Product Spotlight > Design Thinking / Product Design

Dutch designers at Studio Nienke Hoogvliet have created a range of products made from toilet paper reclaimed in fine sieves from the toilets of the Netherlands. >

22 Nov 16
Do insects like the way we taste?

Design News > Design Thinking / Food Design

To Flavour Our Tears places humans on the other end of the food chain. >

21 Nov 16
Meet the Cyborg Tattoo Artist

Design News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

This tattoo artist creates his drawings unlike anyone else. >

18 Nov 16
Magic-making lemonade

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Sometimes the most simple of acts can inspire wonder. >

18 Nov 16
Pneumatic dome turns London park into a community haven

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Madrid-based firm DOSIS creates inflatable, reconfigurable public space. >

18 Nov 16
Was it Made in China or Designed in China?

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

The Chinese manufacturing industry is well known for its knockoffs. But what does that mean for the Chinese designer? >

17 Nov 16
Biolux: Speculating on the future of indoor lighting

Next Generation > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Growing glowing architecture. >

17 Nov 16
Turning the tables with the Internet of Things

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

We use technology to experiment, test and customise our experiences. But what if it was the other way around? >

16 Nov 16
Naama Schendar: Design to rethink trauma

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

The way that the world deals with trauma is not progressive enough, says Israeli-born multidisciplinary designer Naama Schendar. >

15 Nov 16
Trauma and the neuroplasticity of the human brain with Naama Schendar

Talks > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Global Graduate Naama Schendar explores identity and trauma through a design project that encourages enhanced empathy. >

15 Nov 16
Turning the violent side of nature into an energy source

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Japanese engineers turn their attention to the power of typhoons. >

15 Nov 16
RoboBees and the future of pollination

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Are scientists about to replace bees? >

14 Nov 16
The untapped light & utility of plants

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Turning plants into sources of energy and light. >

14 Nov 16
Poisoned Pasts: Shedding light on SA's dubious history

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Thinking

New exhibition lifts the lid on apartheid government’s most dangerous programme. >

11 Nov 16
MIT scientists engineer spinach to detect explosives

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

This research team has found a way to infuse the vegetable with super powers. >

10 Nov 16
MIT breaks new ground with “soft” aeroplane wing

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

The lightweight structure is a modular, flexible advancement in the field of soft robotics. >

9 Nov 16
Empower, Connect and Sustain: This year’s top Global Grad Show projects

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Conceptually simple, technically complex, physical and virtual design. >

9 Nov 16
The magnetic ink that heals itself

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Engineers developed electronic circuits that are able to recover from damage independently. >

9 Nov 16
A high-tech shopping cart for the homeless

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

This tricked-out trolley aims to help secure the belongings of Canada’s nomadic homeless population. >

9 Nov 16
Vera de Pont: DIY fashion – only scissors required

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Dutch design graduate Vera de Pont is trying to bridge the gap between designer and consumer with fashion garments that are DIY and open source. >

4 Nov 16

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