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    These classrooms are designed to help children with ADHD focus

    Architect Lior Ben-Shitrit designed an innovative workspace space where children with learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can thrive. The Isreali architect is known for designing attractive and alternate learning environments. Ben-Sheetrit designed the details and furnishings for the ...
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    Laptops Are Changing the Face of Office Furniture Design

    Workspace design has long accommodated sitting in one place, uncomfortably, for long periods of time. On top of research that suggests how being sedentary for eight hours a day might eventually kill you, being forced to do your job from ...
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    My Micro NY

    nARCHITECTS’ My Micro NY, with Monadnock Development, is the winning proposal in the adAPT NYC competition sponsored by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD). Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and HPD Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua announced on ...
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    Artificial nose “smells” when food is about to go bad

    C2Sense’s sensor chip with 4 sensing elements on plastic. With the 4 sensing elements, you can detect up to 4 compounds at the same time, e.g. ethylene for fruit freshness, biogenic amines for meat/fish/poultry freshness, and maybe humidity and carbon dioxide. Cameras gave ...
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    Hotel-Curating Apps

    Porter & Sail is a specially-designed app meant to complement a guest’s experience at specific hotels. Porter & Sail is partnered with ten hotels across the globe, including The Freehand in Miami, London’s Town Hall Hotel and Tommie in New ...
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    Spherical underground fridges

    The ‘Ground Fridge’ is an underground cellar meant to keep a variety of food and drinks cold. The spherical structure comes with a walkway that allows users easy access to the walk-in cellar. The Ground Fridge is meant to be ...
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    Scientists are building a system that could turn atmospheric CO2 into fuel

    Scientists in Canada are developing an industrial carbon dioxide recycling plant that could one day suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and convert it into a zero-carbon e-diesel fuel. Developed by tech start-up Carbon Engineering and partly funded by Bill Gates, the ...
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    Stress-reducing lightbulbs

    ‘SVET’ is an intuitive lightbulb that changes in accordance with natural sunlight dynamics. Although we may not realize it, the brightness of a lightbulb can impact our sleep patterns, levels of stress and our overall health. This health-friendly lightbulb is ...
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    52 firms sign agreement to tackle climate change

    On Oct. 22, 52 architecture and planning firms signed the China Accord, a collaborative effort to design buildings, neighborhoods, and cities in that country to low-carbon or carbon-neutral standards. These firms, based in China and other countries worldwide, gathered last week in ...