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Blob Helps You Work and Store Stuff in Small Spaces (video)

Not ready for Christmas, just yet, this Israeli multi-purpose desk design and storage unit could be on a green shopper's list next year if...

Handmade Earthen Hookah Pipe Adds Class to Middle East Past Time

Everywhere in the Middle East, in cities or rural villages, you will inevitably find people sucking on tall, usually cheaply made shisha pipes made...

The Wheel House is a Tiny Home Tossed About by a Fictional Sea

What's it like to live on a boat? In such cramped spaces and always subject to nature's whim, otherwise reasonable people can go mad...

Flexible Solar Canopy to Cover Dubai’s 2020 Expo Pavilions

An enormous flexible canopy of photovoltaic cells will shade the pavilions at Dubai's 2020 expo, an innovative step towards greater energy efficiency for the...

Can Microsoft’s High-Tech Smart Bra Curb Appetite?

A day late and an undergarment short!  The morning after Thanksgiving, I read about a new stress-busting bra that could’ve kept me from, once...

Hundreds of Xerox Paper Strips Make Extraordinary Recycled Curtains

Israelis are well known for being industrious - especially when it comes to turning innocuous every day materials such as tomato cans, or in...

Comparing Qatar Stadium to a Vagina is “Ridiculous” Says Zaha Hadid

I never thought that I would agree with Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi starchitect who has failed time and again to support the green building...

Japan’s Sou Fujimoto Re-Imagines Doha with Modular Stacked Arches

Qatar is undergoing a massive change, and many of the world's top architects are hoping to become a part of the action. Zaha Hadid...

Bees Trained to Detect Cancer and TB on Human Breath

It turns out that bees are not only essential to global food production, they also make amazing sniffer "dogs." Which is how Portuguese designer...

Oil-Rich Qatar Takes Eco Expertise to Philadelphia’s Famous Greenbuild

The Qatar Foundation is distinguishing itself as a leader at Greenbuild, the world's largest gathering of green building pioneers in Philadelphia, where Hilary Clinton...

5 Steps to a Carbon Neutral World Cup in Qatar

Qatar has promised a carbon neutral 2022 World Cup, but we know from the Masdar City experiment how hard that is to achieve. Still,...

Design a Bridge for the Strait of Hormuz – Crucial Passage for Global Oil

It is one of the most important bodies of water in the world, the only one to link the Persian Gulf with the open...

Solar-Powered ‘Desert Cascades’ Cube Gushes Water in the Desert

The same team behind SunGlacier, an extraordinary solar-powered artificial leaf that produces ice in the middle of the desert, has come up with a...

Wearable Boutonnière Vase Keeps Floral Scents Close to Your Chest

Israeli designer Omer Polak has designed an adorable wearable vase that keeps a flower or herbs close to the wearer's chest. The Boutonnière is a...

Naive Israeli Startup Tricks Beirut Designers into Doing Illegal Business

Creativity, like nature, knows no borders, and we're all about putting politics aside for the greater good, but a pair of naive American women...

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