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Technology

Designing for Mutualism

As advanced technologies evolve into agents with memory, intuition and emerging behaviours, designers are exploring how humans and intelligent systems can work together to shape artefacts that capture dreams, perception and serendipity.

Trail Blazers face the Jazz on December 6, 2024. Jaden Coleman / Trail Blazers
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Health, Wellness & Sport

Adaptive Arenas

As sports fandom grows stronger, sports bodies and clubs are introducing new technologies to make live events accessible to spectators with impaired sight.

Tong by Dorothee Clasen, Germany
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Technology

A dental retainer for controlling tech

Tong is a wearable mouth device that allows people to operate computers using their tongue.

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Fashion

H&M creates a jacket for wearable intimacy

The brand’s Wearable Love jacket turns fashion into a medium for emotions.

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Technology

The Ontenna hair clip enables wearers to feel sound

Tokyo – Ontenna is designed to enable D/deaf and hard of hearing people to experience sound through light and vibrations.

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Technology

Digital society

Helsinki – A new exhibition examines the impact of digital technology on the world from a human-interest angle.

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Technology

Knock knock

US – Knocki is a new wireless controller that lets users operate smart devices by tapping their furniture.

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Luxury

Milan Salone 2015: Top five products

This year’s Milan Furniture Fair bristled with excitement and a sense of unlimited potential as the city celebrated the opening of new design districts and anticipated the upcoming opening of Expo 2015.

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Europe

In stitches: Studio has wooden furniture sewn up

In stitches: Studio has wooden furniture sewn up