Dezeen promotion: Danish designer Cecilie Manz has collaborated with Bang & Olufsen to design a portable speaker that offers 360 degrees of sound. More about Cecilie Manz and Bang & Olufsen design portable speaker
Graduate Roza Janusz has created an alternative to plastic food packaging, which is made from organic material and can either be eaten after use, or composted. More about Roza Janusz grows edible food packaging
Ceramics brand Mutina has collaborated with design office OEO Studio to create furnishings and accessories to accompany its popular tile collections. More about Mutina launches range of "accents" to complement its designer tiles
Tech giant Microsoft has revealed a video game controller designed for people with limited mobility. More about Microsoft launches adaptive Xbox controller for gamers with disabilities
Japanese brand Nendo has created a smoking device as an alternative to both traditional and electronic cigarettes. More about Nendo launches "third cigarette" as alternative for smokers
Dezeen promotion: ceramics brand Mutina has teamed up with Dutch designer Hella Jongerius to produce a range of tonal tiles. More about Mutina collaborates with Hella Jongerius to create colour-rich collection of tiles
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 about Boston Dynamics to start selling SpotMini robot as soon as 2019
Tetrahedral concrete forms used to prevent coastal erosion provided the design cues for this soap, which would look at home in any brutalist bathroom. More about Brutalist soap imitates concrete coastal barriers so it won't slip out of your hands
Design firm Crosby Studios has created a playful series of purple furniture and home accessories, which is launching as part of the NYCxDesign festival this month. More about Crosby Studios' all-purple furniture collection includes recurring hand shapes
Benjamin Hubert's design studio Layer has launched a new furniture collection for Moroso, which introduces a new way of bonding upholstery textiles together. More about Benjamin Hubert's modular furniture introduces new method of bonding textiles
The relationship between the sun and the moon is referenced in this mirrored mobile by Japanese designer Hiroto Yoshizoe, which reflects the light of one simple bulb. More about Hiroto Yoshizoe's mirrored mobile 1.625m/s2 reflects light from a single bulb
Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki's has created a singing washing machine and a musical kettle, which were in his solo exhibition Furniture Music, at London's Stanley Picker Gallery. More about Yuri Suzuki's musical appliances are designed to enhance your mood
In this competition, Dezeen is giving away a Sonos smart speaker that plays, pauses and changes music in response to voice commands. More about Competition: win a Sonos One voice-controlled smart speaker
Industrial designer Lauren Lee has designed a heated wall for public toilets, which provides women with a communal place to alleviate their menstrual cramps. More about Lauren Lee's Warm Wall is designed to alleviate women's menstrual cramps
Connective joints are "design projects in their own right", according to the curators of the huge U-Joints exhibition during Milan design week. More about U-Joints exhibition examines the diverse world of construction joints
Dutch design studio Belén has created a line of all-natural, textile-based products that are designed to be used in place of sunscreen lotions and polyester sunshades. More about Belén presents textile-based alternatives to "harmful" sunscreens
Researchers have created a series of 4D-printed plastic objects that fold themselves into predetermined shapes when heated, which they believe could be scaled up to create flat-pack furniture. More about 4D-printing method could allow flat-pack furniture to be assembled with heat alone
Neri Oxman and her Mediated Matter Group at MIT have expanded their collection of 3D-printed death masks with designs that cultivate new life after death. More about Neri Oxman's new death masks contain pigment-producing microorganisms
Designers including India Mahdavi, Nathalie du Pasquier and Ini Archibong have worked with Italian master artisans to create a range of unique objects, including totem-like vases and contemporary Venetian masks. More about Designers team up with Italian master artisans to create "craft design" objects
A mirror covered in eyeballs, creatures from outer space and a spiky sex toy all feature in this set of miniature monsters from glassware brand Lasvit. More about Glass monsters invade Milanese theatre for Lasvit's Monster Cabaret exhibition