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This device charges your mobile using saltwater and oxygen

Design News > Product Design

A Swedish start-up has invented a smartphone charger that only needs saltwater and oxygen to generate electricity. >

2 Feb 16
Human tissue, smart textiles could follow these 4D-printed flowers

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Researchers take 3D printing to the next level with printed objects that mimic the way plants move in nature. >

2 Feb 16
Kids' craziest inventions become reality

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

In a world where we think nothing new can be created, inventors like Dominic Wilcox come and shatter that thought to pieces. >

1 Feb 16
South African nuclear physicist designs bag to charge your phone wirelessly

Next Generation > African Design / Product Design

Shalton Mothwa is prototyping Aeon Power, a laptop bag capable of harnessing ambient telecoms signals and converting them into electrical energy. >

1 Feb 16
An alternative, eco-friendly bicycle helmet

Design News > Product Design

This bicycle helmet is made from a wood-based foam, making it a biodegradable alternative to regular plastic protection. >

29 Jan 16
Saving food from the fridge

Product Spotlight > Product Design

Jihyun Ryou is transferring traditional methods of food preservation through her storage design. >

29 Jan 16
New men's contraceptive is as easy as the flip of a switch

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Swiss inventor Clement Bimek created a device that could shake up the birth control industry. >

29 Jan 16
A coat that doubles as a shelter for refugees

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Students at the Royal College of Art have designed a garment that can turn into a shelter for an adult and a child. >

28 Jan 16
Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe

With a laser-sharp focus on the future, Dutch designers Miriam van der Lubbe and Niels van Eijk are on the pulse of concept design. >

28 Jan 16
Concept design according to chmara.rosinke studio

Inside View > Product Design

Austrian design practice, chmara.rosinke studio finds freedom in creating design solutions across multiple mediums. >

28 Jan 16
A' Design Awards is calling for entries across all design categories

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

A' Design Award calls for entries in industrial design, architecture, interior design, furniture, lighting and building materials. >

28 Jan 16
Emotional objects by .Yuue

Product Spotlight > Product Design

.Yuue, a design studio in Berlin, puts hidden messages in their product design. >

28 Jan 16
Quit smoking by locking your cigs away in this smart box

Product Spotlight > Product Design

This smart box pairs with an app to form a tech solution to cigarette cravings. >

27 Jan 16
Design that forces us to rethink our choices

Product Spotlight > Product Design

Dr Matthias Laschke designed "Pleasurable Troublemakers" to create moments where we have no choice but to reconsider our options. >

27 Jan 16
Josie Hardy

Josie Hardy's family has a legacy of carpentry, and she's carrying the torch high in the contemporary design world. >

27 Jan 16
Surfing into the future on a more eco-friendly board

Product Spotlight > Product Design

Surfing might be seen as the environments greenest sport, but building a board has its environmental cost. >

27 Jan 16
A lamp for space-starved city dwellers

Next Generation > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

RISD graduate Matthew Lim has designed the Tack light – a portable lamp that can be magnetically attached to a wall-mounted plate. >

27 Jan 16
The delightful and disobedient design of Jaime Hayón

Design News > Art & Photography / Product Design

Quirky Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has become well known for his curious pieces. >

26 Jan 16
Michael Rowlinson

Michael Rowlinson is a creative strategist with a background in retail and design, and the creator of the Umbala Baby Blanket project. >

26 Jan 16
Harvesting energy from the wind using plastic grass

Design News > Product Design

University researchers present a possible alternative to solar panels and bulky wind turbines. >

26 Jan 16
Gideon Roos: Architect, designer-maker, father

Product Spotlight > Product Design

South African Gideon Roos manages to hold down a job as a landscape architect in the Middle East while making furniture and raising his son in SA. >

26 Jan 16
Megan Smith

Handmade textile design collection Cloth and Print is a textile design studio based in Cape Town, South Africa. >

26 Jan 16
Seugnét Herbst

Seugnét Herbst is a qualified interior designer with a creative craving for product design. >

26 Jan 16
Pierre-Félix So replaces push notifications with bubbles and balloons

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Pierre-Féliz So has designed Push Revolution, three devices that reinvent our relationship with push notifications through bubbles and balloons. >

25 Jan 16

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