This jacket by Oslo studio Drap og Design illuminates to imitate the colours of whatever the wearer is touching (+ movie). More about Interacket by Drap og Design is a jacket that changes colour like a chameleon
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: cities in the future will exist in both a physical and digital form says William Trossell of 3D-scanning company ScanLAB, who claims the lines between the two "will become increasingly blurred" (+ movie). More about The city of the future "will be both physical and digital"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: advances in 3D-scanning technology could enable virtual tourism by providing a "life-like experience" of faraway places says architect Pernilla Ohrstedt (+ movie). More about Future tourists could "travel the virtual world instead of the physical"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: advanced 3D mapping of our built environment could one day allow us to "stop and rewind time," claims London designer Keiichi Matsuda (+ movie). More about Advances in digital technology could make "time travel possible"
News: Amsterdam agency Lemz has taken away the top honour at this year's Dutch Design Awards for Sweetie: a virtual 10-year-old girl created to catch perpetrators of webcam child sex tourism (+ movie). More about Lemz wins Dutch Design Award 2014 with avatar for fighting child sex tourism online
Dutch Design Week 2014: designers Unfold, Kirschner3D and Penny Webb have developed a set of instruments that measure physical objects and transfer the dimensions to a digital model in real time on screen (+ movie). More about Analogue wood and brass tools transformed into digital measuring devices
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: popular software packages are influencing the way new buildings look says Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, who calls on architects to develop their own code rather than using "off-the-shelf" solutions (+ movie). More about You can "spot what software has been used" to design a building
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architecture education is failing to understand how technology is changing our cities says Keiichi Matsuda, who foresees the profession “splitting into two parts” thanks to digital advances (+ movie). More about Architects could become "closer to game designers or filmmakers"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs introduces this round-up of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition on the future of mobility, which took place last month during London Design Festival. More about Dezeen and MINI Frontiers showcased "provocative ideas" for future travel
The creators of a flying car called AeroMobil say that transport networks are "in crisis" and suggest that a potential solution could be shifting road traffic into the skies (+ movie). More about Creators of the AeroMobil flying car propose moving road traffic to the skies
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the final behind-the-scenes movie about our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, Pernilla Ohrstedt explains the concept behind her stand design for the show. More about Pernilla Ohrstedt demonstrates how "our world will be captured in digital form"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the penultimate preview of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, which opens to the public tomorrow, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez shows us how he will generate personalised 3D-printable driving companions for visitors at the show. More about Matthew Plummer-Fernandez to present "personalised avatars for your vehicle"
Designer Gerard Rubio has created an open source robotic loom that is able to knit entire seamless garments in less than one hour (+ movie). More about OpenKnit is an open source 3D-knitting machine that creates garments in just one hour
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: London designer Keiichi Matsuda shows us how he is making his new film about the future of augmented reality in the next preview of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition. More about Keiichi Matsuda to "explore the future of the city" in new film
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the next preview of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, we visit Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg at the RCA workshop where she's been making 112 miniature cars to create a "model ecosystem" of vehicles. More about Car design and production could "start to show biological adaptation and mutation"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: artist Lucy McRae shows us the experiments she's been doing with emergency blankets and vacuum cleaners in our second behind-the-scenes preview of next week's Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition. More about Lucy McRae experiments with negative pressure to "prep humans to go to space"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the first of a series of preview movies running up to the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition next week, designer Dominic Wilcox shows us the car he is making out of stained glass for the show. More about Behind the scenes with Dominic Wilcox making his "stained-glass driverless car"
Brooklyn artist Ted Lawson hooked himself up to a robotic painting machine that used his blood as ink to draw a nude portrait of himself (+ movie). More about Ted Lawson uses his own blood to print a self-portrait with a CNC machine
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Francesca Rosella of interactive fashion brand CuteCircuit claims advances in digital "smart" fabrics will revolutionise the fashion industry, allowing us to download new styles for our clothes rather than buying new garments. More about With smart textiles we can "download new colours or patterns" to our clothes
A graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture has turned the iconic Barbican Estate in London into the setting for a proposed augmented-reality video game (+ movie). More about Barbecana by Edward Mascarenhas turns the Barbican into a video game