design
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How Technology Can Help Cities Make Better Use Of Storm Water
More than half the world’s population lives in metropolitan centres. The built environment of a city is very different from that of rural and natural areas. When it rains over a rural landscape, much of the rainwater sinks into the ground or is evaporated or transpirated by trees, crops and other plants.
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Seductive Design: 5 Future Concepts We Love
This is it, you guys. We are in the future. And while we might not have hoverboards (thanks for getting our hopes up, Tony Hawk, you jerk) there is a lot to be excited about. These are the concepts that keep us believing.
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Albert Einstein’s Handwriting Has Been Turned Into An Amazing Font
Forget Myriad Pro, Helvetica or Futura. The only font you’ll ever need is designer Harald Geisler’s “Albert Einstein”, painstakingly crafted to match the “clear rhythm, even flow and soft curves” of the theoretical physicist’s handwriting. But Geisler wants to take the font even further, adding letter variations and upping the quality and hence, he’s fired…
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Bio-Inspired Gel Could Create ‘Graceful’ Robots That Move Like Humans
We’ve put efficient robots to work in industries from factories to emergency situations, yet machines’ bulky, blocky bodies seriously limit their range of motion. But what if the soft androids of the future could move like humans?