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New, innovative material inspired by ancient design
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Product Design
The designs found in Iran’s Kharraqan towers became the unlikely inspiration for an advancement in metamaterials.
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30 Mar 16
FlipFlic controls your blinds for you
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Architecture & Interiors
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Craft
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An automated blind controller equipped with light sensors and thermometers controls your blinds for you.
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29 Mar 16
Plantable pencils challenge use-and-chuck-away culture
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The Sprout pencil grows into a plant if you place it in a pot.
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29 Mar 16
A squid bacteria lighting solution
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Product Design
The nocturnal Hawaiian bobtail squid uses bacteria to help it see in the dark and so can we.
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29 Mar 16
3D-printed vase collection upcycles plastic bottles
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
DesignLibero’s 3D-printed vase collection brings beauty to the practice of upcycling.
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28 Mar 16
Buy one give one: A blanket drive from Cape Town
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Craft
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Umbala blankets are designed and locally manufactured by a studio that donate a blanket to a baby in need for every blanket they sell.
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28 Mar 16
Cubetto: A coding tutor for kids as young as three
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Cubetto by Primo Toys is a kid-friendly, wooden robot that teaches kids to code in a way they can see and touch.
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25 Mar 16
Blurring the lines between art, architecture and design
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Architecture & Interiors
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A design studio in Italy known for their anamorphic art have painted shape changing mural.
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24 Mar 16
Bel & Bel are the leaders in supra-cycling
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Spanish design studio Bel&Bel save objects from falling into disuse by redesigning their purpose.
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23 Mar 16
Fontus self-filling water bottles
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Product Design
Water bottles designed to harvest water from the air using an internal condensation system.
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22 Mar 16
Portable water purification for developing nations
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Product Design
LifeStraw is a portable and affordable water purification tool for people in developing countries.
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22 Mar 16
WaterWheel: A rolling solution in rural India
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Design Activism
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Wello Water’s WaterWheel lifts the physical burden of water collection in rural India.
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22 Mar 16
Electric-assisted handcycle prototype proposed as low-cost wheelchair in Bangladesh
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Product Design
Researchers design a solar-powered vehicle as a possible upgrade of the widespread manual wheelchair.
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18 Mar 16
Turning cemeteries into forests
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Industrial Design
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The new Bios Urn and tree incubator has created a way to commemorate the dead by planting a tree.
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18 Mar 16
The Dutch e-bike powered by solar energy
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The Dutch Solar Bike's sleek design is thanks to specially designed solar panels.
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17 Mar 16
A tiny, smart patch could replace insulin shots for diabetes sufferers
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Product Design
A painless patch could mean that millions of diabetes sufferers no longer have to inject themselves to correct their insulin levels.
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16 Mar 16
Welcome to Germany is a cellphone app for refugees
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Information Design
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A smart application provides migrants with much-needed information about life in Germany.
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16 Mar 16
An innovative way to extinguish a fire
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Product Design
The Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball uses a chemical blast to control unexpected fires.
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16 Mar 16
Auto-focus specs adapts lenses to near and farsighted vision
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Product Design
Deep Optics’ omnifocals automatically adjust focus, providing the wearer with improved vision.
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15 Mar 16
Tiny surgical tools inspired by origami
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Product Design
Researchers were able to do away with bulky surgical parts and rely instead on the principles of origami.
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15 Mar 16
Saving a font from extinction
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Product Design
Reviving a forgotten font designed by Alvin Lustig, an iconic, contemporary American graphic designer.
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11 Mar 16
A new, sustainable way to make plastic
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Researchers at Stanford have found a way to create sustainable plastic using inedible plant materials.
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11 Mar 16
Rope made out of plastic bottles
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Product Design
A really handy tool from a runaway Kickstarter campaign.
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10 Mar 16
Old tennis rackets become colourful works of art
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Product Design
Cape Town local Danielle Clough has many inventive outlets, but her embroidery has caught the attention of the creative world.
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9 Mar 16
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