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Dezeen has announced the 81 projects longlisted for this year's Dezeen Awards in the sustainability categories, including projects by SOM, Tarkett, Bolon, Mater and Smartvoll. Read more
Implanting a pouch of stem-cell-derived pancreas cells under the skin of type 1 diabetics has enabled them to live without insulin injections for years and maintain non-diabetic blood sugar levels, according to the results of a clinical trial. It’s a big step towards a functional cure for the disease.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, LifestyleTags: Diabetes, Diabetic, Transplant,
breaking away from the ‘do not touch’ gallery rules, this experience by LEGO highlights the impact of play on families. The post LEGO’s immersive superpower studio in paris invites kids to hands-on creative adventure appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Image: CanonCanon has announced its new RF 28-70mm F2.8 IS STM lens, a light and compact mid-range zoom with a constant F2.8 aperture. According to Canon, the lens is designed for both photo and video use and should appeal to photographers, videographers, and vloggers.Optically, the lens is built around 15 elements in 12 groups, including two UD (ultra-low dispersion) and two aspherical elements.
Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might even mean there’s no Planet Nine after all.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Astronomy, Stars, Planet, Planet 9, Neptune, Solar System, Moon, Leiden University
features that weren’t on the 1970s model appear in the new one including the projected information onto a curved-screen console. The post DS SM coupe from 1970s returns as gold ‘tribute’ with satin varnish and handmade patina appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
by renovating a single-family house to a two-family house, MWarchitekten demonstrates how communities can be densified sustainably. The post scalloped shingles and timber screens wrap modern austrian home by MWarchitekten appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
As part of an installation for Paris Design Week, French design studio Uchronia has taken over the forecourt of the Hôtel de la Marine with a monumental bed that homages the hotel's 18th-century interiors. Read more
It's a competitive field when it comes to robot mowers, but this one may be a cut above most, with a pleasing price point, supreme weather detection, lawn mapping and a host of other features that mean you won't have to keep watch over it as it goes about its work.Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, LifestyleTags: Kickstarter, Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Mower, Smart Home
MIT scientists have coaxed atoms into an exotic “edge state” for the first time, allowing them to flow completely friction-free. The breakthrough could lead to better superconductor materials.Continue ReadingCategory: Physics, ScienceTags: Particle physics, Electron Microscopes, Electrons, Atoms, MIT, superconductor

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