Top 6 Exercise and Standing Desks to Get You in Shape While You Work

New Book Explains How Hugging Trees Could Actually Improve Your Health

Have you hugged a tree today? No?! Well, you should, because it just might improve your health – according to a new book published this year, touching trees and being near nature could actually make

Gigantic Bubbly Vitam’Parc Sports Center Pops Up in France

Solar Electric Light Fund Shines a Ray of Hope on Haiti

The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) has installed 100 solar-powered street lamps in Haitian refugee camps Pétionville and Caradeux. Almost two years after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti taking

Japanese Reversible Destiny Lofts Cheat Death by Design

Sit to Walkstation Desk Treadmill: Burn Calories While You Work

If your 9 to 5 requires you to be a desk jockey for most of the day, chances are you either need to hit the gym to work off that Subway sandwich you had for lunch – or worse yet, you don’t

Living, Breathing “Lung Chip” Provides Alternative to Animal Testing

Imagine if all the debate over which chemicals were safe and unsafe for humans were suddenly settled. We’d know which products to buy and which to ban. Class action lawsuits filed by communities

Cheap Solar Refrigerator for Vaccines Could Save Millions of Lives

Talk about “green design to save the world” — Appropriate Technology Collaborative has developed a solar powered refrigerator for vaccines that stands to save millions of lives lost each

New Technique Grows Dental Implants Right in Your Mouth

If only we were like sharks — or perhaps like ourselves as kindergartners. But alas, when a full grown human loses a full grown tooth there are only two options – dentures or dental implants.

Scientists Develop Silk Implant That Melts Onto Brain’s Surface

From the department of creepy yet clever: researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia have developed a brain implant made partially from silk that that melts into

New Type of Contact Lenses Deliver Medication With a Vitamin E Punch

Contacts are good for more than giving you perfect vision — lenses are also used to deliver medicine for glaucoma, cataracts, and other problems, but current technology forces the medication to

2009 Index: Awards Showcase Designs that Improve Life

Danish design consultancy Index: recently announced the winners of the 2009 Index:Award, an international design competition that highlights the scale of the problems we face globally, while rewarding

INHABITOTS: Amenity Nursery Bedding Collection

While putting your toddler in the middle of the forest is probably not the smartest thing in the world, bringing the forest to their room might just do the trick. The Amenity Nursery Collection has just