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Reality check
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Dunne & Raby imagine and speculate about a deconstructed future where teleportation to parallel worlds is possible.
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25 Nov 10
Coded
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Yuri Suzuki's Barcode Book uses a barcode reader connected to a speaker, together with illustrations, to tell stories.
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15 Nov 10
Interactive Engine
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Engine 26 is an interactive digital painting project that allows for the manipulation of live video and other cool features.
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14 Nov 10
Case in point
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Type Case is an installation that creates interesting displays with digital pixels of different shapes and sizes.
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11 Nov 10
Fits like a glove
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A breakthrough technology? The Keyglove allows the wearer to control keyboard and mouse controls with one hand.
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5 Nov 10
Afronaut
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If Apple won us over with the power of design, could design bring Ubuntu to the masses? Guy Bedford gets geeky with Mark Shuttleworth.
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1 Nov 10
Machine made
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Mechanical Couture, an exhibition at the Design Musuem Holon examines the relationship between craftmanship and mass production.
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27 Oct 10
Digital view
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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
Open access
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Design Thinking
Women on bicycles, armed with a netbook and medical supplies, are helping to improve the lives of many people in rural Bangladesh.
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25 Oct 10
Digital abstraction
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Karim Rashid's latest series of abstract digital works combines his interests in art and scientific thinking.
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12 Oct 10
Swimming success
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A whale design out of Cape Town’s FabLab has wooed the crowds and impressed the judges at an international FabLab conference in Amsterdam.
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4 Oct 10
Kitchen cool
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The new AlessiTab designed by Stefano Giovannoni is the ideal interactive, multimedia device for domestic spaces.
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29 Sep 10
Mobile lifeline
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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
Shin-ichi Takemura: how the internet can address social problems
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With the internet making real-time worldwide connections possible, it can be creatively applied to address social problems.
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16 Sep 10
Shaped for solar success
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Custom-shaped solar panels are helping to popularise the use of solar panels because of their flexibility and versatility.
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30 Aug 10
Orchestral innovation
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Music & Sound Design
What do you get when you combine maths, physics, digital art, design, electronics and music? A symphony, of sorts.
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1 Jul 10
Pixel power at Basil2010
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A reinterpretation of the pixel creates a new, modular and tangible lighting system.
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28 Jun 10
Taxi!
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South Africa's 12th unofficial language doesn't use words but hand signals. They're fun, useful and give insights into taxi commuting.
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22 Jun 10
Legends of Echo
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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
Play DJ with Spooky iPhone app
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In conjunction with the launch of his latest album, The Secret Song, DJ Spooky has launched a DJ-mixing iPhone app of the same name.
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29 Mar 10
Troika answers all at DI2010
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Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel of Troika electrified with their playful and thoroughly executed interaction designs.
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15 Mar 10
Culinary workshop for the new age at DI2010
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Food Design
Design Indaba and Foodcorp present a professional workshop by Nils Noren, vice president of culinary arts at the French Culinary Institute.
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20 Feb 10
Past-life digital dreams
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Nadine Botha speaks to Troika whose experiments and installations raise questions about the real function of technology.
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9 Feb 10
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