Rima Sabina Aouf

Ixi has revealed what it describes as the world's first "auto-focus glasses", which change their optical power depending on where the wearer is looking.

Sheep wool was presented in a new light in the Dutch Design Week exhibition Wool (Re)discovered, which aims to get visitors talking about Europe's unloved fleeces.

Every year, some surprising throughlines emerge from the programme of Dutch Design Week. This time, contributing editor Rima Sabina Aouf spotted attempts to revive democracy and a proliferation of alien creatures.

Students from London's Architectural Association have developed a low-cost and easily repeatable way to build with tree forks – a type of timber that is usually discarded as waste even though it is unusually strong.

Meta has added to its Ray-Ban smart glasses series with the Meta Ray-Ban Display – its first pair to combine AI and an augmented-reality display.

The Netherlands' Nieuwe Instituut has opened the fourth in its series of New Store pop-up shops, this time inviting consumers to participate in the production and recycling of a clothing item made from local wool.

New materials brand Hyphyn has launched what it claims is the world's first biodegradable performance vinyl fabric, which breaks down over 90 per cent in two years in landfill conditions without leaving behind microplastics or toxic chemicals.

The most desirable phones are no longer only the ones with the most advanced features. These are the best contemporary dumbphones with deliberately pared-back functionality, tested.

Pedestrians are walking 15 per cent faster and stopping to linger 14 per cent less than they used to, according to a study from MIT's Senseable City Lab that hopes to guide the design of public spaces.

Technology company Meta has said "the wrist is the key" to the future of human-computer interaction after its engineers created a gesture-sensing wristband prototype.