Designer David Taylor has created Knuckle, a duo of lighting designs for Swedish furniture brand Hem that are characterised by their crimped corners made by forcibly bending square aluminium tubing. More about David Taylor forms "the world's most anonymous material" into aluminium lighting
The Golden Capsule – a non-powered, hands-free intravenous device designed by students from Hongik University has won this year's James Dyson Awards International prize. More about Hands-free IV for disaster zones wins International James Dyson Award
Promotion: Italian brand Casalgrande Padana has released five tile collections suitable for a range of interior and exterior spaces. More about Casalgrande Padana releases five varied tile collections
Retailer Finnish Design Shop has launched a tool to individually assess and rate the sustainability of more than 20,000 design products featured on its online store. More about Product Sustainability Framework responds to "growing demand" for sustainability information
Dezeen Showroom: a collection of stools and benches that act as both seating and acoustic solutions is among 12 new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about Plega seating by Derlot among 12 new products on Dezeen Showroom
Spanish firm Studio Inma Bermúdez has created Nu, a collection of taps designed to reference vibrant Mediterranean colours and featuring a hidden detail. More about Studio Inma Bermúdez creates Nu faucets with "smiling face" detail
An empty site can be transformed into a basketball court using this mobile kit designed by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Eric Treillard. More about Eric Treillard designs mobile kit for turning unused plots into playgrounds
Promotion: French design brand Petite Friture will showcase its furniture, lighting and accessories collections at US interiors trade fair BDNY this month. More about Petite Friture to showcase "unconventional" designs at BDNY
Dezeen Showroom: American materials brand 3form has recently launched its highest-rated acoustic product, Hush Blocks – a chunky and fun extension to its Elements series. More about Elements Hush Blocks by 3form
Wildfires can be detected before they spread or even before they start using a new satellite-enabled sensor system created by a group of Turkish recent design graduates and spotlighted by Dezeen as part of our Designing for Disaster series. More about "The trees themselves" raise wildfire alarm in ForestGuard detection system
At Designart Tokyo, Japanese design collective Honoka exhibited furniture and lighting made by 3D printing a material made from discarded Tatami mats. More about Honoka 3D-prints furniture that "re-weaves Tatami into modern life"
Dezeen Showroom: Australian brand Woven Image has added five colourways to its collection of EchoPanel acoustic wall treatments. More about EchoPanel acoustic panels by Woven Image
Dezeen Showroom: Spanish tile brand Undefasa has released a range of mass-coloured technical porcelain tiles named Solid+, which have a flecked appearance reminiscent of natural stone. More about Solid+ tiles by Undefasa
New York City and Toronto-based design studio Kinky Kashayam has created a conceptual, hand-held radar that generates black cats in order to "protect one's luck". More about Kinky Kashayam creates portable black cat radar to explore superstitious beliefs
Dezeen Showroom: American brand Carnegie Fabrics brought some of its leading high-performance fabrics together and added new colours under the banner of the Full Spectrum collection. More about Full Spectrum collection by Carnegie Fabrics
Modular waste bins designed by local industrial design studio Group Projects to be recyclable and assist sanitation workers have begun to be distributed across New York City's five boroughs. More about Modular waste bins by Group Project distributed across New York City
Design graduate Juliane Kühr has presented a set of sex toys for self-insemination at Dutch Design Week, which were devised to be used during sex to help pleasure take its rightful place in the assisted conception process. More about Vruit vibrator doubles as artificial insemination device
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Henry K Wein has developed Trunk Bunk, a treehouse that allows its occupant to sleep in a different tree every night. More about Henry K Wein designs portable treehouse that can be towed by bicycle
US tech startup Laero has unveiled a compact water treatment system at Dutch Design Week, which it claims can be installed under any sink to recycle up to 80 per cent of the water. More about Laero develops at-home system for turning wastewater into drinking water
A group of design graduates from London's Royal College of Art have come up with a way to make RFID tags entirely from paper, with no metal or silicon components in a bid to cut down on waste from single-use electronics. More about PulpaTronics tackles single-use electronics with paper RFID tags