Herman Miller has launched a limited-edition face mask called “Design for Freedom” in partnership with Grace Farms Foundation, a humanitarian non-profit organization. The face mask is $30. Proceeds from the sales of the masks will go to Design for Freedom, a Grace Farms initiative that seeks to eliminate modern slavery from the built environment.As revealed in a November report by Design for...

Everist has unveiled its high-performance waterless haircare concentrates that are sustainable in performance and design.With the mission to make clean, zero-waste products for beauty lovers, Canada-based Everist Inc., officially made their debut with their first high-performance haircare products. Built by Jayme Jenkins and Jessica Stevenson, two women who collectively have 25 years of experie...

COVID-19 has accelerated change in the real estate industry, bringing a focus to social justice and safety and wellness amid a backdrop of economic uncertainty.Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2021 highlights the evolving trends shaping the real estate industry. The report, which includes proprietary data and insights from more than 1,600 leading real estate industry experts, explores how COVID...

An installation by architecture studio Rael San Fratello, which connected children in the US and Mexico via a trio of seesaws slotted into the countries' border wall, has been crowned the Design of the Year.Dubbed the Teeter-Totter Wall, the project was in place for only around 40 minutes in July of 2019 and hoped to foster a sense of unity at the divisive border, which was highly politicised u...

The head-up display, which projects information onto the windshield for drivers, has been available in some cars since 1988. But while over the past decade they've gone from relatively simple information displays like speed and music selections, Panasonic wants to take things to another level by precisely linking up symbols and text with real-world objects and roadways in front of the car.Panas...

The latest Canalys data shows that worldwide PC market growth accelerated in the last quarter of 2020, as shipments of desktops, notebooks and workstations increased by 25% from a year ago to reach a record 90.3 million units. These latest numbers exclude tablets. Ongoing strong demand in the holiday season led to a third consecutive quarter of sequential growth, with shipments in Q4 up 13% seq...

2021 saw the first ever all-virtual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The biggest technology event of the year played host to over 2,000 exhibitors. From the functional to the fantastical, CES certainly lived up to its hype, even if it was held entirely online. Keeping Millennials and Gen Zs top of mind, we’ve recapped some of the products young people will surely be pumped about. Read on to le...

Skyqraft, the Swedish startup using AI and drones for electricity powerline inspection, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding, capital it will use to further develop its technology and expand its operations in Europe and in the U.S.Leading the seed round is Subvenio Invest, with participation from pre-seed backer Antler, Next Human Ventures and unnamed angel investors.Founded in March 2019 an...

The new design for airplane propulsion could reduce not only emissions but also early deaths associated with pollution.Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have proposed a new hybrid-electric plane design that could cut 95% of toxic emissions. On Thursday, MIT said the new concept for airplane propulsion has been inspired by emissions control systems used by heavy-duty...