Everything you need for a techno-utopian retirement
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
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
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
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
Shops in Tokyo and New York are offering you the chance to turn yourself into a miniature plastic action figure
