Auckland Design & Style News

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Phoenix Bamboo Car Defies Convention

A new kind of eco-friendly car.

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Artificial Leaf Could Solve Energy Crisis

Fake photosynthesis could power planet.

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Augmented Reality Contact Lenses

More Robo-Cop inspired tech being developed.

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Agora Finds Friends for You

Can't make friends? There's an app for that.

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Functional Wall Stickers Make Organisation Fun

Being well-organisation has never looked so good.

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Turn Your Favourite Book Into A Lamp

Designer Boris Dennler lets you highlight your book collection by turning them into functional lamps.

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Bike Helmets Get Fashionable

Designers give the lid a new look.

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‘The Cube’ Portable Restaurant

Portable restaurants to tour the landmarks of Europe.

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Bee-like Mini Robots May Be The Key to Exploring Mars

Searching for life on Mars could be made easier with the use of swarms of miniature robots.

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The Incredible, Edible Pen

If you're a pen-chewer, we have some good news.

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Nine-Angled Lens Captures 3D Images

Science, now in 3D!

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Concrete Playground Needs a Digital Sales Manager

Do you (a) possess excellent online sales skills and/or (b) look like Will Ferrell in Eastbound and Down? This might just be the role for you.

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Latest Places

Restaurant
Odette's Eatery

Shed 5, City Works Depot, 90 Wellesley Street

Between the lively chat, the excellent dishes and plotting how to run away with all the tableware, we had a wonderful time.

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Win A Grant for Your Big Green Idea

The British Council are offering grants up to $20,000 for eco-entrepreneurs.

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Looking Beyond Earth Hour

2011 hopes to go Beyond the Hour after Earth Hour on March 26.

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Planting the Seeds of Life in Garbage City

The Seeds of Life design hopes to change Garbage City's trash troubles into an eco-friendly skyscraper community.

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Nokia and Burton Develop Smart Snowboards

Snowboard with sensors can track your runs, and will do anything else you can think of and develop

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Cyberdyne Develops Superhuman Robot Suits

Cyberdine unleashes HAL, a robot suit that enhances strength beyond average human capability.

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Paul Smith and Rapha Give Cyclists Some Style

Fashion designer Paul Smith lends his expertise to cycle-gear brand Rapha

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Latest Events

Event
Boy Kills World

Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Bill Skarsgård makes a mesmerising action star in this cartoonishly OTT revenge flick that's produced by iconic 'Evil Dead' filmmaker Sam Raimi.
Event
The Fall Guy

Wednesday, April 24 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Ryan Gosling is at his most charming — including while batting around screwball banter with Emily Blunt — in this dynamic action/rom-com ode to stunt performers.
Event
Abigail

Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

The directors of 'Ready or Not' turn their attention to monster movies in this deliciously entertaining heist-meets-vampire flick.
Event
Challengers

Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

For 'Call Me By Your Name' director Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist star in a smash of a tennis- and love triangle-fuelled drama.
Event
Back to Black

Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Amy Winehouse was anything but formulaic, but the same can't be said about this by-the-numbers biopic about the British singer.
Event
Robot Dreams

Thursday, April 25 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

This Oscar-nominated animated gem explores love, loneliness, finding a connection and facing fate's chaos through the friendship of a dog and a robot.
Event
Origin

Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

'Selma' and 'A Wrinkle in Time; filmmaker Ava DuVernay returns with a sensitive, sincere and supremely smart biopic that's also an exploration of caste systems.
Event
Lovers and Castaways

Wednesday, March 6 - Sunday, June 9, 2024
The Pah Homestead, Auckland

This exhibition allows visitors to experience 1980s Aotearoa through the eyes of some of New Zealand's most treasured artists.
Event
The Effect — Auckland Theatre Company

Tuesday, April 16 - Saturday, May 11, 2024
ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland

This ethically ambiguous, toxic love story is the work of Lucy Prebble, one of the brains behind HBO’s ‘Succession’.

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Event
Aotearoa High Tea in The Libraries at The Hotel Britomart

Saturday, March 16, 2024, Saturday, April 13, 2024 and Sunday, May 12, 2024
The Hotel Britomart, Auckland

Enjoy some of Aotearoa's best food in the elegant, heritage spaces of The Libraries.

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News
A Mobile that Can Recharge in your Pocket

An environmentally friendly mobile phone that can run on body heat

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Silicone Speakers for Sharing Music Anywhere

Foldable, stackable, washable and virtually indestructible, Tembo Trunks sustainable silicone speakers let you share your tunes wherever you are.

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IKEA Helps Organise Your Computer Desktop

Can't get enough IKEA in your home? Download IKEA's digital storage solutions for your desktop

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Pepsi Develops 100% Sustainable Plant-Based Bottle

Pepsi trumps Coke with a 100% plant-based bottle made of switch grass, pine bark and corn husks.

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See More of the World with New Improved Google Street View

New and improved Google Street View transports you to locations on all continents, with stunning 360 degree panoramas and enhanced interactivity.

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Wear Music of Artists You Heart on Your Sleeve

Playbutton is an mp3 player embedded in a badge, each one storing pre-recorded content like an album or mix-tape.

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Tweets Inspire a Book on the Egyptian Revolution

Tweets from activists in the revolution in Egypt are compiled into a compelling timeline of the uprising.

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Food From The Sky Creates Rooftop Gardens in London

London supermarket plants a garden on the roof to promote sustainable fruit and vegetable production in cities.

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Google’s Person Finder Helps Locate Tsunami Victims

Person Finder is an online search tool to help people locate the whereabouts of family members, loved ones and friends that have been caught in the natural disaster.

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Surreal Images Caused by Google Earth Glitches

These dream-like pictures look as though they could be from the set of Inception, but they're actually screenshots from Google Earth

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Virtual Christchurch Cafe Raises Money for Earthquake Victims

This philanthropic website seeks to aid New Zealand's earthquake victims with profits from virtual coffee products.

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Flying House from ‘Up’ Recreated in California

As part of a new National Geographic television series, a team of scientists, engineers and balloon pilots recreated the scene from the hit flick.

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Eco-Friendly Alternative to Plastic USBs

Each Flashkus is created from thin strips of recyclable cardboard, allowing for easy disk-labeling and the potential to recycle the body of the disk once you're done.

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Instagram and Stickygram Print Your iPhone Photography

iPhone photography apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic recreate a Polaroid-feel in our piccies.

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The new look Concrete Playground

We've nipped, tucked and delivered Concrete Playground to you in a shiny new package, re-imagining everything from the ground up.

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Australia’s Biggest Garage Sale

The Garage Sale Trail will be held on Sunday, April 10 this year in backyards, front yards and garages right across Australia.

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Art Installation Maps the Beauty of WiFi

Immaterials acts as a reminder of what drives our society, what facilitates our social flings, and shows us the fragility of the foundation of our daily lives.

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Thought Control Car Becomes a Reality

The technology of gaming and all your Back To The Future fantasies come together in the car driven by the power of your mind.

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Homes Getting Cheaper and Smaller by Design

With the global economy in a less than premium position, sustainable micro-houses might be awaiting us all in the future.

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Artsicle: An Original Artwork Rental Scheme

A new scheme running in New York let's you road test your art before you make a lifetime's commitment to it.

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Lenovo Creates First Ever Eye-Controlled Computer

Blinking or being distracted by someone across the room could potentially lead to your documents closing unsaved, now that your eyes can control your computer.

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Scrabble Revived with Designer Fonts

Now not only is Scrabble a delightful game for grammar pedants but for typography fetishists as well.

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TED 2011’s Big Idea for Global Sustainability

Interchangeable life-size Lego parts have the power to completely democratise industrial production in a sustainable way.

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Literary Figures Give Lego Bookish Cred

The one thing Lego has always needed was a smug F. Scott Fitzgerald and brooding Ernest Hemingway to give it some literary credit.

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