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UK-based Green Spirit Creations is the latest team to try its hand at paper-based lighting solutions. Seeking out discarded materials from local shop-owners, its stylish household lamps are made from 100 percent recycled cardboard (bulbs, wiring and switches aside).

In an effort to bring reliable electricity supplies to emerging regions and remote island communities, Panasonic has developed an expandable, portable, self-contained photovoltaic system called the "Power Supply Container."

iHear, an invisible hearing aid, is designed to significantly lower the cost of personalized hearing devices by enabling the user to test the extent of their condition and calibrate the hearing aid from their own home.

"MobiVersum" by J Mayer H, a dynamic architectural installation, is the new star of the Autostadt complex in Wolfsburg, Germany.

OCHO Pad is an NFC tray that connects owners to objects and other people. Objects are tagged and when they are checked into the tray, the system can send messages to other household members and issue reminders. It can also keep a running history of daily activities.

Given even the smallest opportunity to get creative, kids will invariably take it. This is why modular furniture designed to appeal exclusively to children is potentially such a good idea. Olla is just that, offering children of all ages the opportunity to build their own Lego-style furniture.

Narrow track vehicles are evolving and sprouting up all over the place, but Yamaha’s brand new Tricity represents the first production effort by a major motorcycle company – and it seems to be focused in all the right areas to make it a huge success.

The ATHENA project, which is developing a "desktop human" for for screening both new drugs and toxic agents, has reported success in the development of its first organ construct, a human liver construct that responds to exposure to a toxic chemical much like a real liver.

A decade's worth of images taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope have been used to create a gigantic 20-gigapixel panorama of the Milky Way, capturing more than half of the galaxy's stars.

While it's helpful to have a cargo box on your bike, most such containers must either be left on permanently, or are relatively easy for thieves to take. The Fietsklik system, however, features carriers that can be quickly clicked on and off of a rack-mounted adapter, but also locked in place.

A couple of years ago, France’s Lehmann Aviation introduced its LA100, a fixed-wing UAV designed to carry a GoPro Hero camera. Now, the company has announced the LA100 Version2, which features Wi-Fi connectivity and a new Windows Phone 8-based OperationCenter control interface app.

A nasal spray containing a specially-developed protein peptide could form the basis for a new highly-targeted treatment for depression, new research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has shown.