Technology
Waste textiles turned into sweets in FabriCandy project
Teenage Engineering releases “world’s first medieval electronic instrument”
Wearable Friend device aims to fight loneliness with AI companionship
Manufactura and BioMatters create 3D-printing composite from discarded lobster shells
Young designers “cutting out the middle man” by producing objects themselves
Whipsaw creates Aescape automated massage robot
Cement-based rammed earth “not much better than concrete”
Love Hultén creates tiny music stage for crowd of sperm and eggs
European Space Agency develops Lego brick from space dust to build on the moon
Scientists use living skin to create robot that smiles
Nike and Hyperice unveil heated foot-massaging shoes
Natural Material Studio crafts entire home interior from bioplastic
Seven portable AI devices that attempt to give shape to a new technology
Aurelia Institute designs geodesic spacecraft for “leading good lives” in orbit
Suchi Reddy installs voice-to-colour AI sculpture in Michigan Central
Texas A&M Architecture students reveal end-of-year designs in Dezeen video
Teal Wand offers accessible and comfortable at-home sampling for cervical cancer
Nothing brings modularity to budget smartphones with CMF Phone 1
Four materials made from banana plants at Future Fabrics Expo
Google reports 50 per cent jump in emissions due to AI energy use
Glastonbury’s Hayes Pavilion “pushes the boundaries” of what bioplastic can do
Natural Material Studio turns wood offcuts into biomaterials to “utilise the whole tree”
“We have a duty to honour plastics” says Smile Plastics co-founder Rosalie McMillan