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Terms like urban farming or urban gardening have been around already for a while. The artists from Ecologicstudio take up these trends, but transform them radically, and go beyond the known practices through the creation of a self-sustaining cyber-gardening system.

From all over Europe Afsnit I invites creative entrepreneurs, social innovators, artists and inventors who are passionate about an idea and want to share it with the rest of the world. So in case you are currently working on a next idea, this would be an ideal opportunity to go public and also to win…

Stereolithography has been around for years. The art of taking uncured liquid resin and pulling out solid objects, while amazing, is not itself a new technology. In fact, its origin dates back to the seventies. Why then has such an amazing technology that has immense potential been so inaccessible to the general public? The team…

How would a world look like in which air has become a scarce resource? The artists behind the Air Project have thought about this question and created an interesting installations that opens a new perspective….

The at the moment most efficient light bulb in the world was unfortunately too far developed, to receive the [next idea] grant. But as it is an extraordinarily product, we still want to dedicate one blog post to this idea…

SolePower employs the piezoelectric effect to generate electricity from the human kinetic energy. By capturing accessible human energy and transforming it into electricity, SolePower enables us to leverage the energy we expend everyday by using it to power our mobile devices.

Understand the economy as dynamic model and forsee the economy crisis at the same time? If you think that sounds to good to be true, have a look at Professor Steve Keen´s project, who is working on that at the very moment….

How is it actually possible to teach Kids about complex and often even for adults hard to understand topics such as energy and sustainability? With their Zapland project the developers from Kitchen Budapest are currently working something that could change the way how we deal with this question.

The Cookease system is a solution for our growing desires for healthy convenient food. The Cookease system is an intelligent and sophisticated system – rather than just measuring the time required to cook meals the conventional way, Cookease calculates the precise amount of steam and time required to cook a combination of ingredients in order…

The young dutch designer Marco van Beers quite intensively investigated the field of illness and communication, and approaches this complex field from a socio – technological perspective. One output is a project called “The Tokens” which tries to improve the interaction between severely ill people and their social environment through non – verbal communication.

Generate light and energy through the force of gravitation! This idea convinced the [next idea] jury and the project GravityLight got awarded a honorary mention. We congratulate and dedicate this blog entry to that brilliant project!

Congratulations to Marcelo Coelho and Skylar Tibbits from Fromlabs! With their project Hyperform they´ve won this years [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant! You can find a detailed description of the project here.

Like the Mobile Lorm Glove, the Keyglove is another smart glove based solution to enhance ways of communication, but in a slightly different context.

Marginalized communities like deaf-blind people are excluded from several forms of communication. The Design Research Lab in Berlin, has been developing the Mobile Lorm Glove, a mobile communication and translation device for the deaf-blind. The prototype translates the hand-touch alphabet “Lorm”, a common form of communication used by people with both hearing and vision impairment,…