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Not Yet Decided: A social experiment in superposition

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

A group of young Lithuanian architects are proposing a social project based on Schrödinger's cat, the thought experiment. >

3 Jun 16
Soofa: NYC’s solar-powered benches

Design News > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

The Soofa group is spreading technology with their solar-powered benches. >

2 Jun 16
Ingestible origami robot can patch a wound from the inside

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

Researchers have developed a tiny magnetically controlled robot with dozens of healthcare applications. >

31 May 16
L CARD: A lung cancer “breathalyzer”

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

The tiny device can detect whether or not a patient has lung cancer. >

31 May 16
Spyce: healthy meals with the speed and ease of fast food

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Designed by students, the machine makes a healthy meal as quick and easy as fast food. >

31 May 16
Cheap, effective, mosquito killing soap

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Thinking

Two African innovators have created a cheap soap to combat Malaria in the developing world. >

30 May 16
Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level. >

30 May 16
Pia Nyakairu: Designing a device to improve remote care for cancer patients

Video Interviews > African Design / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Ugandan-born industrial design graduate Pia Nyakairu has designed a device that helps physiotherapists and doctors offer distance care to cancer patients. >

26 May 16
Tea shirts: clothing made from tea

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

A tea by-product could be a more sustainable material for clothing manufacture. >

23 May 16
SkinTrack: the next step in wearable technology

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

The new device uses your arm’s surface as a touch-screen, extending the interface of the smartwatch. >

19 May 16
We Are Africa exhibition 2016

Celebrate Africa Month 2016 the creative way with the #WeAreAfrica Exhibition in Newtown, Johannesburg, from 26 to 28 May 2016. >

19 May 16
Y&R Paris' 3D printed animals challenge the way life is reproduced

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism / Design Thinking

Life can’t be reproduced. Y&R Paris' series of images shows the fragile circumstances of wildlife. >

19 May 16
Mimicking the womb

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

An artificial placenta could revolutionise care for premature babies. >

18 May 16
Wear Your Label wants a stigma-free society

Product Spotlight > Design Thinking / Product Design

Wear Your Label gets people talking about mental health through fashion and jewellery design. >

16 May 16
Eliminate wrinkles by applying a ‘second skin’

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

A new, “second skin” solution to wrinkles could also lead to more medical advancements. >

16 May 16
Treating mental illness with virtual reality

Design News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

An Oxford University study tested virtual simulation on sufferers of severe paranoia, with positive results. >

11 May 16
Manmade plant creates oxygen in space

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

The Silk Leaf needs only water and light to create oxygen in the harshest of environments. >

6 May 16
New York rec centre combines gaming and exercise

Design News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Interactive and high-intensity, this circuit-based gym changes the experience of exercise. >

6 May 16
A self-healing biomaterial is the closest yet to mimicking human muscle

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

New biomaterial possesses extreme stretchability, self-healing and endurance properties; all revolutionary in the development of artificial skin and muscle. >

5 May 16
Alex McDowell: Reimagining the narrative of storytelling

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

World-renowned production designer Alex McDowell is the man behind immersive, 5D worlds. >

4 May 16
Humanoid robot recovers sunken treasure

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

OceanOne is Stanford’s mermaid-like robot that can stand in for a human driver. >

3 May 16
Drone waitstaff gives valuable insight into a burgeoning technology

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Students at the Eindhoven University of Technology launched the world’s first drone cafe but they want to do much more. >

26 Apr 16
How to influence human behaviour and other lessons in this game-like online course

Design News > Design Thinking

EdTech startup 42courses.com collaborates with Ogilvy to launch an online course in Behavioural Economics from renowned ad man and TED speaker Rory Sutherland. >

21 Apr 16
OSCAR: Challenging the divide between human and machine

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Dutch filmmaker and visual artist Floris Kaayk’s series of interconnected videos tells the sci-fi story of OSCAR, a modular life form. >

20 Apr 16

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