green futures

London's Design Museum have revealed this year's contenders for their annual Designs of the Year exhibition, opening next month. here are our top science(ish) picks...

Miito offers an ingeniously sleek, simple and efficient way of boiling water and heating other liquids

taking geek chic to new levels, the Rodarte sisters looked to Star Wars for their AW15 collection

Marjan Van Aubel's super slick Current Table produces energy from beautifully integrated solar panels

ace experimental designer Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's Designing for the Sixth Extinction investigates synthetic biology’s potential impact on biodiversity and conservation

we're big fans of Ecovative's fully biodegradable mushroom-based packaging – but didn't realise they were now doing lights and surfboards

Wendell Burnette Architects' Desert Courtyard House is constructed from soil excavated from the site – a "mass of concrete and rammed earth walls that meet the sky without termination"

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see the full list at http://designmuseum.org