With this year's Pride Month in full swing, we've rounded up eight products that you can truly use and wear with pride, from rainbow-printed Nikes to a multicoloured Ercol loveseat. More about Eight of the best design products celebrating Pride Month 2019
Dezeen has teamed up with Sony to offer readers the chance to win one of three Wena smartwatches, which incorporate all their technology into a band you can attach your favourite analogue face to. More about Competition: win a Sony Wena smartwatch
Glasgow School of Art graduate Erlend Prendergast has designed a modular robotic device that talks back to Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa in order to protect users from digital surveillance. More about CounterBug is a digital self-defence device that eases cyber paranoia
London-based designer Dominic Wilcox has created a pair of periscope glasses that allow the wearer to see over the top of people at music events. More about Dominic Wilcox's periscope glasses grant shorter people a height advantage
Architecture and design studio T Sakhi has transformed security barriers into seating as part of a series of urban interventions aimed at creating social places for locals in Beirut. More about T Sakhi creates public spaces using Beirut's security infrastructure
IKEA has partnered with Little Sun – the social business co-founded by artist Olafur Eliasson – on small domestic solar panels that store energy to provide light and power, and inspire action on climate change. More about Olafur Eliasson joins with IKEA to encourage people to harvest their own solar power
Apple has unveiled the new Mac Pro, its most powerful desktop computer to date, contained in a simple aluminium-covered box. More about Apple keeps it simple with new "monster" Mac Pro
With New York's 12-day-long festival NYCxDesign now over, US editor Eleanor Gibson picks out the emerging American designers and studios that stood out. More about Seven rising talents spotted at NYCxDesign 2019
Israeli designer Shahar Livne has designed a pair of sneakers with alternative leather inserts made from the wasted fat, bones and blood of animals. More about Shahar Livne makes bio-leather shoes from slaughterhouse waste
American fashion brand Everlane has launched sneakers made from leather, recycled rubber and plastic bottles that it claims are completely carbon neutral. More about Everlane designs leather Tread trainers to be "world's most sustainable sneakers"
Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has created a 3D-printed suicide machine that allows users to administer their own death in a matter of minutes. More about Philip Nitschke's 3D-printed "death pod" lets users die at the press of a button
New York designer Joe Doucet has created a motorcycle helmet with built-in lights that flash red when the driver slows down or brakes. More about Joe Doucet's Sotera motorcycle helmet uses coloured lights to prevent accidents
Fashion designer Virgil Abloh addresses the issue of rising sea-levels in an installation of sinking furniture on show during this year's Venice Art Biennale. More about Virgil Abloh presents sinking furniture at Carpenters Workshop Gallery show in Venice
The Consumer Electronics Show has returned the Innovations award it rescinded from female-led sex toy company Lora DiCarlo earlier this year, following accusations of gender bias in the tech industry. More about CES restores Lora DiCarlo's sex toy award after sexism outcry
Designer Lisa Marks has combined traditional handicrafts with technology to create a unique bra especially for people who have had mastectomy surgery. More about Algorithmic Lace bra designed for style and comfort post-mastectomy
Swedish design duo Butler Lindgård has created textiles based on the female body, including carpets adorned with breasts and fabrics that look blood-stained. More about Butler Lindgård creates Tits N Ass textiles as "a bit of feminist fun"
Swedish fintech company Doconomy has launched a credit card that tracks the carbon dioxide emissions of purchases, and caps the climate impact of users' spending. More about Doconomy launches credit card with a carbon-emission spending limit
German designer Basse Stittgen aims to address the issue of global food waste and overconsumption with a series of tableware objects made solely from out-of-date eggs. More about Basse Stittgen gives discarded eggs new life as bioplastic tableware
Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has exhibited a plastic water bottle he used for three months at an exhibition promoting recycled plastic objects in Milan. More about "Recycling ultimately legitimates consumption" says Marcel Wanders as he exhibits his used plastic bottle
Dezeen promotion: windows by manufacturer Fakro dot the roof of this bright white office building in southern Poland, filling its interiors with natural light. More about Fakro windows bring light into revamped 1920s office building in Poland