Ian Yang has a bright idea about lamps. But also much more than that. Yang is the CEO of Gantri, the lighting company that 3D prints its carefully designed creations to make all sorts of shapes and form factors. 3D printing has its challenges, but it has opened up all …
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When you think “gaming furniture” a very specific aesthetic probably comes to mind. Sharp edges, RGB lighting, and for some reason seats that look like they belong in a race car. It’s an aesthetic that doesn’t play well with most other living spaces. That’s something Ikea wants to change with …
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A combination of AI, a wild 1970s plan to build underwater cities, and a designer creating furniture on the seabed around the Bahamas might be the solution to the widespread destruction of coral reefs. It could even save the world from coastal erosion. Industrial designer Tom Dixon and technologist Suhair …
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In 1919, an entrepreneur named Nils Halvorsen Norheim set up an automated factory for making flatbreads near Barkåker in Norway, the first of its kind in the country. A century on, his great-great-granddaughter found herself peering into an oven in a tiny kitchen in Trondheim, doing some baking of her …
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