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Indian engineer designs a more intuitive walking aid
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Product Design
Sensor device helps the visually impaired navigate their environments with greater ease.
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16 Jun 16
8 innovative ways drones are being used today
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Creative Economy
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Product Design
From fighting fires, to spotting criminals and collecting whale “snot”, here are some futuristic ways we are using drones.
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15 Jun 16
Chinese start-up Origins works to purify the air
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Product Design
Founded in one of the smoggiest cities in the world, Origins’ machines don’t only detect the toxins in the air, they try to remove them as well.
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14 Jun 16
We talk to the co-creator of the Bureo recycled fishing net skateboards
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Design Activism
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The Ahi skateboard is made of recycled fishing nets and its creators at Bureo Inc. are working hard to protect our oceans.
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13 Jun 16
101Hero: Affordable 3D printing at home
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
The affordable 101Hero 3D printer lets anyone use the sought-after technology at home.
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10 Jun 16
Bringing wooden skateboards back to the future
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Craft
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Product Design
Imagine skateboarding through the streets of a bustling metropolis on boards made from 100 per cent recyclable bio-composite wood.
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9 Jun 16
Design student’s project is inspired by 240 million kilograms of wasted pine needles
Design News
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Product Design
Designer Tamara Orjola wins an award for creating a multi-use material from industrial waste.
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9 Jun 16
Senegalese inventor is empowering communities through solar power
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African Design
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Product Design
Dubbed as Senegal’s “Mr. Sun”, Abdoulaye Touré has been designing solar powered ovens since the 1990s and is now taking his solar powered dreams across Africa.
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9 Jun 16
Invincible bicycle is entirely theft proof and weather resistant
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Design Activism
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Product Design
The Fortified Bicycle startup reveals their indestructible, unstealable bike.
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8 Jun 16
Wetland plants form natural sanitation system in Cambodia
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Product Design
The HandyPod system is helping floating villages improve waste management and reduce water pollution.
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7 Jun 16
Lyfe: A levitating planter
Product Spotlight
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Product Design
The Swedish design team at Flyte introduce us to the future of planting with zero gravity plants.
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7 Jun 16
Dominic Wilcox on thinking your way out of the normal
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Here's a taster from the whimsical, stirring talk from British product designer Dominic Wilcox on how to hunt for new ideas in the everyday.
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7 Jun 16
From 2D to 3D and back again
Design News
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Jongha Choi’s 2D designs can be plucked straight off the wall.
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6 Jun 16
Benjamin Hubert: Design with meaning
Video Interviews
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Industrial designer Benjamin Hubert talks about how designers have a responsibility to solve the right kind of problems.
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2 Jun 16
Free Wi-Fi in exchange for keeping the air clean
Design News
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Product Design
Amsterdam-based startup TreeWiFi designs birdhouses that offer free internet when the air quality improves.
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2 Jun 16
BooToo: locally designed educational toys
Product Spotlight
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African Design
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
South African entrepreneur Daniel Jillings, creates aesthetically pleasing children’s toys.
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2 Jun 16
Graphite: a modular honeycomb-shaped shelving system
Product Spotlight
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Architecture & Interiors
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
A storage system designed to be sturdy and fully customisable.
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1 Jun 16
Social enterprise designs Kenyan running shoe
Design News
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
Enda is a running shoe inspired by Kenya’s legacy of running champions
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1 Jun 16
Welcome Shelter: Charlie Redman’s kinetic dining experience
Next Generation
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Architecture & Interiors
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Architecture student Charlie Redman designed an outdoor structure that functions in any weather.
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1 Jun 16
Ingestible origami robot can patch a wound from the inside
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Researchers have developed a tiny magnetically controlled robot with dozens of healthcare applications.
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31 May 16
L CARD: A lung cancer “breathalyzer”
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
The tiny device can detect whether or not a patient has lung cancer.
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31 May 16
Spyce: healthy meals with the speed and ease of fast food
Design Frontiers
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Designed by students, the machine makes a healthy meal as quick and easy as fast food.
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31 May 16
Innovative filter destroys pollutants in the air
Design News
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
The Molekule air filter uses nano-technology and light to destroy air pollutants at a molecular level.
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30 May 16
Gamer gets a high-tech bionic limb
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Packed with gadgets, James Young’s robotic prosthesis also houses a drone.
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27 May 16
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