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Time magazine recreates iconic cover using 958 drones
Time magazine has sent a fleet of drones into the Californian sky to create a 100-metre-tall version of its cover, for a special report on unmanned aerial vehicles. More
Time magazine has sent a fleet of drones into the Californian sky to create a 100-metre-tall version of its cover, for a special report on unmanned aerial vehicles. More
Eindhoven University of Technology has announced plans to 3D print a series of concrete houses that will be made available to rent. More
Researchers at US university Carnegie Mellon have created a new electrically conductive material that can repair itself, presenting new opportunities for soft robotics and wearable technology. More
A glucose-rich paper touted as an "energy drink for bees" could help prevent the endangered insects dying of exhaustion as they search for flowers. More
Users can "play God" on Tellart's Terraform Table – a sandpit imagined as a vast aerial landscape of mountains, valleys, lakes and rivers. More
Dezeen's new documentary Elevation on drones will be screened at festivals around the world including in Los Angeles, Prague, Pristina and Madrid. More
Chicago-based tech startup Ovie has launched Smarterware, a line of food-storage products that alert users when the contents of their fridge are about to spoil. More
This week Dezeen released Elevation, an 18-minute documentary that explores the impact drones will have on our lives. Here, we take a look at 10 innovative ways drones will change the world. More
Car interiors could morph into different configurations at the flick of a switch, using 3D-printed inflatable structures developed by researchers at the MIT. More
Dezeen's documentary Elevation launched in New York earlier this week at a premiere attended by leading designers and architects. More
French researchers from the Femto-ST Institute have used micro-robots to assemble the world's smallest house, which stands just 0.015 millimetres high. More
Insoles that measure athletic performance using bacteria, and trainers that "breathe" are among the latest experimental pieces of sportswear being developed by Puma and MIT Design Lab. More
Cities would need half as many taxis if human drivers were replaced with robots, according to new research coordinated by Carlo Ratti, director of MIT's Senseable City Lab. More
Four engineers from MIT have opened a fast-food restaurant in Boston that uses mechanical woks to autonomously prepare meals in under three minutes. More
Dezeen today releases a short documentary setting out how drones could revolutionise the way people travel, transform how buildings are designed and built, and radically alter the form cities take. More
MacBook and MacBook Pro users in California have filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple over alleged flaws in the design of its keyboards, which they claim are easily damaged and liable to fail. More
Tech giant Microsoft has revealed a video game controller designed for people with limited mobility. More
The four-legged Boston Dynamics robot that became an internet star when it featured in a series of viral videos is set to go on sale next year. More
Chinese scientists have developed a wallpaper that can detect fires and set off an alarm if one occurs. More
Instagram is rolling out a service allowing designers to sell their products direct to their followers, according to the platform's head of design Ian Spalter. More