The combination of laser and ozone technologies allows Jeanologia to finish a pair of jeans using just a glass of...
See moreProjects
Africa’s first space for democratic technology has now produced over twenty 3D printers made from e-waste. Over one billion...
See morePrecious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
See moreImagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
See moreA new circular model of housing entirely created with reusable and recyclable materials has taken form in Italy thanks to...
See moreA Kenyan entrepreneur has taken discarded plastic and turned it into bricks that can hold twice the weight of concrete...
See moreEver travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
See moreIn Colombia, sustainable affordable homes are being built on solid grounds... coffee grounds. We love a project that solves...
See moreFancy fabricating your own beehive in 30 minutes? A buzzy giant hive of makers and beekeepers have come together in...
See moreNeed a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving...
See moreNature is the new gold! Save your local forest and earn money with this new stock exchange for biodiversity. ...
See moreTickr’s app allows users to invest as little as £5 in companies expanding access to education, clean water, renewable energy...
See moreWave power is being harnessed to grow beautiful artificial coral reefs for coastal protection and marine life. Coastlines and...
See moreThis fun social video-sharing platform built for young creators makes daily actions easy in the ultimate competition to save the...
See moreA self-trained robotics engineer is sparking creativity and accelerating science learning in Africa – with a strong focus on rural...
See moreGet ready to enter a new dimension for medical imaging as the world's only accurate and interactive 3D holograms equip...
See moreA pioneering virtual rehab platform is combining VR, gaming and motion capture to help make therapy fun. Virtual reality...
See moreWearables, medical devices, AI and data come together in this lightweight exoskeleton for robot rehab. And it's been tested by former...
See moreWelcome to the future of recycling. A waste-sorting AI robot that can tell a Coke bottle from a Pepsi one? It...
See moreForget Google! Ecosia is a search engine that uses profits to fund reforestation projects in the world's most threatened biodiversity...
See moreIf a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody around to hear, does it make a sound? It does when the trees have electronic...
See moreA drone company saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda has become a lesson in using autonomous drones as a tool for social...
See moreJust one step can be an insurmountable obstacle for wheelchair users. And this is where Wheelmap comes into play: the crowdsourcing...
See moreIn the least mechanised place on earth, tractors and farming machinery are expensive. This agritech app connects smallholder farmers to tractor owners...
See moreThe Internet is broken. But we can fix it with an alternative collection of open, fair and safe alternatives. For...
See moreRain might be rare in the Moroccan desert, but there is no shortage of mist. Thanks to North Africa's largest fog...
See moreWater is getting the digital treatment. Within a network of innovative control towers in Spain, people are coming together with...
See moreMany students ponder what they will do after university, but fewer find that passion and follow it to the point...
See moreImagine if voting was more representative of what people really wanted? That‘s exactly what is happening in Argentina thanks to these...
See moreIn an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
See moreAn innovative system of huge yellow floodgates is blocking the Adriatic Sea to hold back the tide, inspired by Moses parting the...
See moreIs there water on Mars? This technology was designed to tell us, but now it’s being used to see leaks...
See moreA startup in India is using AI to to address the growing urban problems of water loss and pollution, by...
See moreCome rain or shine, knowing weather patterns is pure gold when it comes to food security. But in the tropics, you...
See moreA counter reads: '1,130,106,730' litres served and counting.' That’s over a billion litres of pure drinking water for the most...
See moreImagine going from 30 to 80 years old in ten minutes by slipping on an age simulation suit and going...
See moreTogether we can fix our broken politics. Sortition Foundation want to create a real democracy of the people, by the people, and for the...
See moreLet us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
See moreTake a virtual walk through space and time with a walking audio book that tells a new story of the...
See moreCan words posted to social media suggest where a genocide might happen? This rumour police in Kenya fights misinformation with...
See more“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.” – Joe Strummer, The Clash...
See moreIn São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
See moreSilver Sharers is a sharing scheme with a heart that matches homeowners over-50 in London with flatmates, providing long-term and...
See more"I marvel at the talent of youth in impossible situations and their potential to move things.”– Martin Fernando Jakobsen Can...
See more"Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing. You can learn anything." That's the motto...
See moreThe Save The Chicken app is providing a digital solution to the very analogue chicken mortalities happening in Africa. Early...
See moreMaths. History. Science. Exams. Tests. Most schools focus on the acquisition of knowledge, facts and traditional disciplines. But, united by...
See moreFive years have passed since Berlin-based Vincent Zimmer and Markus Kressler launched Kiron Open Higher Education, the first online university...
See moreSome clothes become our office staples or Saturday night favourites – but, increasingly, some only ever have a place in our...
See moreThis collective online platform can make a difference for rare disease patients and their families. Rare diseases amount to...
See moreNo, not edible clothes – but even better. MycoTEX are creating custom-made clothing from mushrooms, that produce zero waste and...
See moreWhen does fashion look like magic? When the fibres it’s made from are created not from animals, plants or plastics...
See moreWhile mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
See moreDespite being born over a thousand years before the invention of the computer, Saint Isidore of Seville is considered the ‘Patron Saint...
See moreImagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
See moreAs in every design endeavour, it all started with a problem. In fact, two of them. The first encountered problem...
See moreThe Littery is Latvia’s answer to reducing the man-made problem of litter waste with the most global of incentives: money....
See moreRepair has always been a noble profession, but our increasing obsession with newer, better, faster means we have stopped fixing...
See more“Storytelling is the most powerful tool that we can give to kids." Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cineastas del Futuro...
See moreWant a world with cleaner air? Try on this coat for size. Aldo Sollazzo and the team at WEARPURE.tech have created a...
See moreMost farmers in advanced economies take advantage of a wealth of agricultural information services to support farm management and increase...
See moreToni Massanés has been wondering what makes things good throughout his career – and has been finding answers at the...
See more"The world needs 70 percent more food right now and there are two ways to address that: deforest to create...
See moreCurrently only 30% of roles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are held by women. In...
See moreBe My Eyes is a free mobile app that connects a community of volunteers around the world to the blind...
See moreThe April morning sun beats down on Kontagora, a lively market town in central Nigeria. Generators hum as milling machines...
See moreGames can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
See more"Our mission is to end the sixth mass extinction. Humans have driven it and humans have the power to reverse it."...
See moreIf life gives you good lemons, pass them to your neighbour... Globally over one third of all the food we...
See moreA powerful mini-computer ‘teaching assistant’ is revolutionising Latin American education and can help bridge the pedagogical divide between the world’s...
See moreCalling all doctors, nurses, engineers and designers: coronavirus wants you! Ventilators are essential for taking care of people struggling to breathe...
See more“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
See moreThis is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
See moreAs our cities continue to grow, we need to get better at using our transport more efficiently. Yet to encourage...
See moreSouth Korea has pioneered an innovative way of testing for the novel coronavirus – inspired by the drive-through counters at McDonalds...
See more“We have to work together to stop this pandemic. All of us have to stay safe and have to use...
See moreAs doctors limit face-to-face appointments to align with social distancing rules to slow the spread of the coronavirus, tools that help...
See moreCould 3D-printing help to tackle homelessness and provide affordable housing for those who need it most? Rural families in...
See morePlastic bottle pavilions and urban-mined glasses, 'Polli-Brick' and 'Eco-Morph' and the waste that it slashes, upcycled film theatres and recycled...
See moreToday, the number of girls who opt for technical or scientific studies is much lower than boys. TecnoGirl wants to...
See moreCaring for one another is, well, caring, but it can be hard and it can be lonely. You need to...
See moreFertility apps aren’t just for women. Now men can test their sperm count on a smartphone, making medical testing easy,...
See moreClearly not pretending to be human, Intuition Robotics' ElliQ is an AI-powered companion that is half tablet, half robot and...
See moreMillennials may or may not save the world; only time will tell. But forget labelling Gen Y as saviours or slackers,...
See moreFlorence is a 95 year old partially sighted widow who used to be a keen tennis player. The RAF veteran was...
See more“You can spend your time on Facebook and Instagram, or spend half of that time helping researchers realise their objectives!”...
See moreOne of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
See moreDystopian science fiction movie Ready Player One (2018) showcased a futuristic world where it’s possible to live life in virtual reality, meeting...
See moreToday, smartphones are as fast as 120,000,000 Apollo 11 computers, which were capable of taking people to the moon. If we...
See more"We know that 'ethical' can mean very different things to different people. But for us, it's broadly about pursuing sustainability...
See moreBackpacks with integrated school desks; modular tiles and twisty joints; pop up recycling trailers; and even a child’s rocker –...
See moreIt was during a brainstorming session with the Chelsea fire brigade that British inventor and engineer Yusuf Muhammad learned that...
See moreIn Democratic Republic of the Congo, poor educational access and poor quality education is linked with the historic instability the...
See more"It’s important to bring open-ended tools for discovery to a broad spectrum of users without dumbing down the tools." –...
See moreIf somebody has a heart attack in a film, there's nearly always a crowd of people nearby – and screaming...
See moreExcited by biofertilisers? Want to know about biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens and compost tea – or get down and dirty...
See more