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Plant-Based Air Purification For Your Home

Plant-Based Air Purification For Your Home

Andrea Air is a new air purifier designed by Mathieu Lehanneur engineered to improve air quality by using the filtration of natural plants.

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Volkswagen: Influencing Our Actions Through Fun

Volkswagen: Influencing Our Actions Through Fun

Volkswagen believes that injecting a healthy dose of fun into the often mundane tasks in our daily lives, such as choosing the stairs or remembering to recycle, is the best method for positive influencing our behaviors.

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Morphologically Disturbed Insects from Nuclear-Affected Areas

Morphologically Disturbed Insects from Nuclear-Affected Areas

Swiss scientific illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger travels to post and near-nuclear sites like Chernobyl, documenting the bizarre ‘morphologically disturbed’ insects that have survived the fallout.

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A1 Architects Explores the Small House Paradigm

A1 Architects Explores the Small House Paradigm

Czech firm A1 Architects recently explored the small living paradigm at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague last month, creating a whimsical exhibition called “The Small House.”

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Vespas Upcycled as Office Chairs

Vespas Upcycled as Office Chairs

Barcelona-based studio Bel & Bel has found an ingenious use for vintage Vespas – as upcycled office chairs.

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Solar Powered Roadways, Harnessing Energy Everywhere

Solar Powered Roadways, Harnessing Energy Everywhere

Solar Roadways is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that can be driven on, replacing all current asphalt roads, including driveways and parking lots. The panels would collect and store solar energy to be used for our homes and businesses.

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Piers Fawkes’ Future Trends 09 Presentation

Piers Fawkes' Future Trends 09 Presentation

I recently presented at the Future Trends conference in Miami. My presentation was called ‘Good Ideas in 2010′ and it is the first part of a project to deliver a book later this month with the same title.

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(Pic) Small Is Wasteful

(Pic) Small Is Wasteful

Are small single serve versions of products wasteful?

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Laser Etching Could Replace Labels on Fruits and Vegetables

Laser Etching Could Replace Labels on Fruits and Vegetables

A new laser etching technique might make the small labels on fruits and vegetables a thing of the past.

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Casa Huerta: Scaleable Greenhouses for Urban Environments

Casa Huerta: Scaleable Greenhouses for Urban Environments

Casa Huerta (Orchard House) is a small scale greenhouse / vertical farming system proposed to better life in the poor areas of the world’s cities.

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Paul Coudamy’s Random Resurrection

Paul Coudamy's Random Resurrection

Paul Coudamy is a French architect whose work is a contemporary mash up of inventiveness supplied by today’s technologies and materials.

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Massimo Iosa Ghini’s Solar Powered Monorail

Massimo Iosa Ghini's Solar Powered Monorail

The Energy Belt designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini is a solar powered monorail proposed as a sustainable transportation solution, connecting the Italian city of Bologna with the city’s international airport.

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Highlights From DesignTide Tokyo 2009

Highlights From DesignTide Tokyo 2009

Each year during Tokyo Design Week, DesignTide Tokyo features top design innovations from a variety of fields. With today marking the end of the five-day event, we’ve highlighted three projects below that we find particularly inspirational.

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Living Light: Public Art Air Monitor

Living Light: Public Art Air Monitor

“Living Light” is a piece of public art that uses networked panels to reveal the real-time air quality of each neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea.

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Second Life: Bowling Lanes Reclaimed as Furniture

Second Life: Bowling Lanes Reclaimed as Furniture

William Stranger’s “Second Life” uses reclaimed wood from a local LA bowling alley to create a number of different works including a coffee table, a bench and a diptych.

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