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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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    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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    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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    A new workstation for nomadic employees

    Spotting a shift in job structures and the diminishing status of the office, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Shay Raviv designed Hotel Travail  ­– a new workspace concept for nomadic employees. The Raviv is focused on developing socio-cultural concepts that place the ...
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    Giant blooming flower lamps turn Jerusalem into a wonderland

    Sometimes it seems like a city hates you. It’s a maze built in unrelenting concrete and steel, full of lights that are always too red, signs that are always too vague, and benches that are always too hard. By contrast, ...
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    These ferrofluid desk toys might be the perfect Christmas gift for your boss

    What blobs of heated wax bubbling in a glass cylinder was to the ’70s,ferromagnetic fluid is to 2015. Kyle Haines, founder of Inspired Designs, says this is natural: ferrofluid and lava lamps are a natural fit. “It’s actually a very ...
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    Thermal sponge table designed to save energy

    Paris-based industrial designer Jean-Sébastien Lagrange and French engineer Raphaël Ménard created Zero Energy Furniture table, the table able to cut energy costs by 60 per cent through its ability to regulate the temperature in a room without the use of ...