Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled the Heirloom House project, a series of nine structural-concrete components that can be manually rearranged and that are intended to last for 1,000 years. More about MIT researchers design Heirloom House concrete components to last "1,000 years"
Chinese electronics company Honor has previewed a smartphone with an articulating robot arm at this week's Mobile World Congress. More about Honor's Robot Phone is a smartphone with an articulating arm
Designers should use AI's foibles as a chance to move away from the ruthlessly rational approach that has come to dominate software, writes Nick Foster. More about "Software designers must abandon their roles as the custodians of libraries, logic and grids"
British company Nothing has revealed the design of its latest phone, the (4a), including a new pink variation that the brand says nods to "tech that's expressive and optimistic". More about Nothing goes pink with reveal of new Phone (4a)
Despite last-minute setbacks, NASA hopes that the Orion spacecraft will soon take four people on the furthest journey in the history of humankind. In this interview, one of the vehicle's designers explains how it was made. More about "They'll be flying in our baby" says Artemis II spaceship's architect
Cathedral-like concrete halls, menacing bunkers and monumental sculptural buildings were among the settings designed by Quake players for a brutalist-informed collective gaming event. More about Quake Brutalist Jam lets gamers design their own playable concrete worlds
With climate change threatening ski towns around the world, recent design graduate Tanay Wadodkar has created a small-scale geoengineering intervention in the form of snow-generating stickers. More about Snow-generating stickers help fight climate change effects in ski resorts
British consumer technology brand Nothing has unveiled its second-ever store, a two-storey space in Bengaluru, India, that draws on factory assembly lines. More about Nothing's first India store echoes how nation will become "a design hub gradually"
"Calm technology" is all the rage but big tech companies are leveraging the concept to distract from the ways their business models cause us harm, writes Rima Sabina Aouf. More about "Big Tech is using design philosophy as a smokescreen"
Inspired by local microbreweries, London-based start-up Arda Biomaterials has made a plastic-free leather alternative by altering the protein structures in brewer's spent grain. More about Arda transforms beer waste into plastic-free faux leather
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have made recycled plastic into floor trusses for housing, arguing the waste stream could provide an abundant and sustainable structural building material. More about MIT researchers developing process to make houses from recycled plastic
AI is a tool for deep contemplation rather than quick gratification in Cognitive Bloom, a device concept created by industrial design studio Map Project Office and recent Royal College of Art graduate Chanwoo Lee. More about AI-powered Cognitive Bloom device provides prompts for self-reflection
During this year's Super Bowl on Sunday, some blind and low-vision fans will be able to experience football more directly thanks to tactile devices that vibrate to indicate the position of the ball on the field. More about OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans track the Super Bowl live
Dutch designer Vera van der Burg aimed to "slow down" AI by combining it with a ceramics practice in the project From Text-to-Clay, which has seen her exhibit several unworldly creations. More about Vera van der Burg puts AI and ceramics into "reflective" feedback loop
MIT Media Lab has developed a prototype that uses generative AI to interpret and distil the contents of a photograph into a fragrance. More about AI-driven "scent-memory machine" turns photographs into custom fragrances
Aidan Meller and his AI-powered creation Ai-Da are exhibiting what they believe to be the first building concept designed by a humanoid robot, currently on display at Denmark's Utzon Center. More about Home designed by humanoid robot goes on display in Denmark
British tech company Vertical Aerospace has debuted its electric flying aircraft in New York City, which is designed to transport customers short distances around a city "in near silence, with zero emissions". More about Vertical Aerospace debuts "electric flying taxi" in New York
IKEA is set to open a pop-up shop in the metaverse in collaboration with game platform Roblox, allowing players to add classic IKEA designs to their virtual homes. More about IKEA launches pop-up furniture shop in Roblox game
Musician and entrepreneur Will.i.am has entered the micro-mobility space with his new company Trinity, revealing a AI-equipped, single-passenger vehicle designed as "brains on wheels". More about Will.i.am unveils three-wheeled EV with AI assistant
An AI pocket pet, a vibrating ultrasonic knife and a "paper battery" were among the interesting and unusual products on display at the world's most influential technology fair, CES, in Las Vegas this week. More about Ten gadgets that caught our attention at CES 2026