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It was one of four applications selected by the judging panel at the Honda Hack Day chosen to be put to the Guardian readers vote. After a month of voting, Bike Alert has been announced as the victor. The creators will receive a £2,000 grant from Honda to allow the application to be developed further. A firm... Read more

Category: Design, Entrepreneurs, Environment, Futurology

Scaling down the concept of urban farming into something bite-size and digestible, Shanghai based creative Hiroyuki Shinohara has developed a mini office farm using only waste products such as bottle tops and coffee filters. A zero waste project, as it uses only what was already there, sees his ‘Transportable... Read more

Category: Design, Environment, Futurology

We may not be far off a time where we can simply wash our clothes by hanging them outside on the washing line. Studies conducted by Chinese scientists have successfully used sunlight to remove orange dye stains from cotton fabric, that was treated with a special coating. Mingce Long and Deyong Wu created the... Read more