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Design

Prosthetic Leg Developed for Amputee Ballet Dancers

Industrial Designer Jae-Hyun An has developed a prosthetic leg for amputee ballet dancers. Designed to enable amputee ballet dancers to perform in 100% pointe, the prosthetic leg will "push the creation of new choreography for contemporary ballet."

Design

Cheap and Luxurious Capsule Hotels in Japan

Designed with minimalist and simplistic facilities, ninehours is a capsule hotel company that offers a "simple urban stay unlike any other in the world."

Tech

Mercedes-Benz’s Autonomous Vehicle Concept Converts from a Car to Van

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled an autonomous, electric vehicle concept called Vision URBANETIC. Designed with interchangeable bodies, the vehicle will be able to convert from a car to a van in a matter of minutes.

Portrait Generated by Machine Learning Algorithm Sold for $432,000

A portrait generated by a Machine Learning Algorithm has been sold at the Christie’s auction house for $432,000.

Tech

Focals by North Combines High-Tech Functionality with Modern Design

Focals are a new line of stylish smart glasses equipped with a holographic lens that display full colour notifications of text messages, navigations, appointment reminders, weather updates, and more.

COS and Studio Swine have Exhibited the New Spring Installation in Shanghai

Contemporary fashion brand COS has collaborated with art collective Studio Swine to exhibit the New Spring installation in Shanghai alongside the launch of COS’s Chinese website.

- Fashion

Everlane Has Launched a New Collection of Outerwear Made from Recycled Plastic Bottles

Food

Japanese Green Tea Is Being Served Hand Drip Style in a Tokyo Tea House

The minimalist green tea house called Tokyo Saryo is considered the first of its kind for serving hand dripped green tea.

Public Space Under Highway Turned into Mesmerizing Light Installation

Described as "the dream landscape about the power and poetry of water", an art installation titled WATERLICHT has premiered in Toronto, Canada.

Design

Memory Retention Font Developed Using Cognitive Psychology

The Sans Forgetica typeface is specifically designed to improve the memory retention of readers. Developed by a multidisciplinary team at RMIT University in Melbourne, Sans Forgetica is based on a concept called desirable difficulty.

Tech

Samsung’s QLED TV Seamlessly Blends in with the Background

Using Samsung’s SmartThings app to take a picture of the QLED TV and its background, an AI algorithm generates a pattern to make the TV appear transparent to the eye.

Tech

Nissan Has Embedded Their Autonomous Parking Technology in Slippers

As part of a marketing campaign to promote Nissan's ProPILOT Park technology, Nissan has embedded their autonomous parking technology in slippers, floor cushions, tables and even a TV remote control.