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Browsing heat

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Design

Japanese vending machine manufacturer creates human refrigerator

Japanese vending machine manufacturer SDRS has developed the Do Hiemon Box, a one-person cooling booth designed to protect workers and event-goers from extreme heat.

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Travel & Hospitality

Foresight Friday: Alice Crossley, principal strategic foresight analyst

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, principal strategic foresight analyst Alice Crossley unpacks how the climate crisis is turning up the heat on the travel industry.

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Sustainability

Stat: Rising heat exposure poses dire risks for older adults by 2050

A recent study published in Nature Communications reveals that by 2050, an additional 246 million people over the age of 69 will face dangerous acute heat, with the most severe impacts in Asia and Africa.

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Sustainability

Stat: Extreme weather puts 200m people under heat or flood advisories in the US

Some 200m Americans, accounting for 60% of the US population, have been under heat advisories or flood warnings since Thursday 27 July 2023, according to the National Weather Service.

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Luxury

Milan Salone 2017: Thermal transitions

Milan – Passages, a series of sculptural objects by design studio Panter & Tourron, examined the different states of thermal energy.

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Marketing & Branding

Warming up

New York – Snapbac is a range of sports apparel designed for the crucial moments before and after a workout.

In Flux by Roos Meerman, Power Play by Dutch Invertuals
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Technology

Dutch Design Week 2016: Age of energy

Eindhoven – Power Play by Dutch Invertuals aimed to rebrand sustainability by exploring the future of environmentally friendly design.

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Design

Taking the temperature: Exhibition explores heat and cold

Milan – Creative research centre Fabrica has brought a dose of fresh air to air conditioning system maker Daikin by exploring the concept of temperature through a series of artistic and sensory installations, named Hot & Cold, at the Garage Milano.

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Marketing & Branding

The Polarity Paradox

Moderation is no longer the modus operandi. In our busy, networked and choice-rich lives, people are finding a new model for self-restraint by fleeing the middle ground and living in temporary extremes. Abstinence and indulgence, shopping and saving, fasting and gorging are the new lifestyle patterns that are enabling consumers to have everything…