New York designers Agency-Agency and Chris Woebken have created a series of bright blue plumbing fixtures that could turn the city's fire hydrants into public drinking fountains or showers. More about New Public Hydrant would let New Yorkers drink from city water mains
Architect Jack Hudspith and product designer Ben Pawle have created a cycling glove with a smiley face on each side, to encourage road users to communicate with each other better. More about Loffi's smiley cycling glove combats the "complex issue" of road rage
Japanese studio Nendo has designed a mobile battery that users can charge by rotating, to power-up their smartphone in case of emergencies. More about Nendo designs emergency portable battery that can be charged by rotating
Dezeen promotion: furniture brand Sancal has teamed up with London-based artist Egle Zvirblyte on a range of whimsical blankets, featuring polka dots, bananas and a tiger wearing sunglasses. More about Sancal blankets by Egle Zvirblyte are patterned with tigers and bananas
Gadi Amit's studio New Deal Design has collaborated with tech start-up Helm to create a home server to save people from "being caught up in the next massive online breach". More about Helm Personal Server lets users take control of their data security
Bohinc Studio has applied urushi, a traditional Japanese lacquer made of tree sap, to a series of boxes made from Katsura tree wood and cotton. More about Lara Bohinc creates interlocking urushi lacquer boxes
Chinese studio Bentu Design aims to highlight the amount of waste produced by the ceramics industry with its Wreck furniture range. More about Bentu Design creates Wreck furniture from ceramic waste
Swiss textiles brand ZigZagZurich produces a range of artist-designed blankets, including several influenced by Bauhaus design principles. More about ZigZagZurich use twisted yarns to create Bauhaus-inspired blankets
Japanese designers presented lights that showcased traditional craft, were created from delicate materials, and are made for small homes, at Designart Tokyo. Dezeen's design editor Augusta Pownall picks five of the most interesting. More about Five lights created by Japanese designers revealed at Designart Tokyo
Pratt Institute graduate Jae-Hyun An has created a prosthetic leg that allows amputees to perform ballet like never before. More about Prosthetic leg for amputees designed by Jae-Hyun An to encourage new genre of ballet
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Don Kwaning has created an ecological packaging material from the pith of a fast growing plant called soft rush. More about Don Kwaning makes furniture and packaging from wetland weed
Apple has launched a MacBook Air with a 100 per cent recycled aluminium alloy shell, reducing the carbon footprint of the computer by almost half. More about Apple designs "greenest Mac ever"
Eindhoven-based design studio Dutch Invertuals has curated an exhibition of 10 objects, to question whether – in the anthropocene era – it is possible to reduce the volume of non-essential products in our lives. More about Dutch Invertuals presents products that champion using less
Mexico-based creative studio MaliArts has designed a series of three structures for solitary bees living in built-up areas to help welcome nature into urban environments. More about Refugio shelters aim to make solitary bees feel at home in cities
Architecture studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has worked with Japanese makers to create nine pieces for Tokyo lifestyle store Time & Style, which are based on a house it built overlooking the Baltic Sea. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune creates nine objects that reference its Villa Widlund
Thai designer Natchar Sawatdichai's collection of Qualified paper blinds are designed to offer a sustainable alternative to those made from environmentally damaging plastics. More about Natchar Sawatdichai makes adjustable blinds from folded recycled paper
Royal College of Art student Joy Bonfield-Colombara has funded her way through art school by creating a hand-carved effigy of Lil Wayne in solid 18 carat gold with diamond tears, for the American rapper. More about Joy BC pays off university fees with hand-carved pendant of Lil Wayne
Swedish-based craftsman Love Hultén has designed and built a NES topped with a glass dome as a tribute to the hugely popular 1980s video games console. More about Love Hultén creates shrine to Nintendo Entertainment System
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Aurore Brard has created tableware featuring coloured accents, designed to help visually impaired people dish up the correct amount of food and drink. More about See-Eat-Through is a set of tableware that visually impaired people can perceive
London-based eyewear brand Kite has teamed up with Benjamin Hubert's design agency Layer to launch a service that takes 3D scans of customers' faces, then uses them to produce perfectly fitting frames. More about Kite offers eyewear that is 3D-printed to fit exact measurements of any face