Everything you need for a techno-utopian retirement
15 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Design Museum, London
From next-gen mobility scooters to bloodstream nanobots, this pop-up exhibition explores how technology can better help an ageing population
Tag: Design futures
Headset provides ‘3D soundscape’ to help blind people navigate cities
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Microsoft’s GPS-enabled navigation headset provides directions and live transport information, and ‘paints a picture of the world through sound’
4D-printing: from self-assembling chairs to cancer-fighting robots
13 April 2013 • Mark Westall
The future is here. Project Cyborg will revolutionise the way designers think by training materials to build themselves – and adapt to their surroundings
Textile futures: the living shoe and the strawberry plant that grows lace
24 January 2013 • Mark Westall
What will we be making shoes out of in 2080? And will our clothes come from fruit? One college course studies exactly that
Print yourself: the rise of the 3D photo booth
24 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Shops in Tokyo and New York are offering you the chance to turn yourself into a miniature plastic action figure