These are the 397 most inspiring, innovative designs of 2018

Winner:Experimental

AlterEgo

MIT Media Lab

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Arnav Kapur, Shreyas Kapur, and Pattie Maes

Finalist:Social Good

Hacking Manufacturing

Jifei Ou Project Lead, Instructor; Tangible Media Jie Qi, Instructor, Lifelong Kindergarten Artem Dementyev; Instructor, Responsive Environment; Amos Golan, Student, Tangible Media; Ani Liu, Student, Design Fiction; Daniel Oran, Student, Synthetic Neurobiology; Donald Derek, Student, Responsive Environment; Guillermo Bernal, Student, Fluid Interfaces; Laya Anasu, Student, City Sciences; Miguel Perez, Student, Playful Systems

Honorable Mention:Experimental

Hacking Manufacturing

MIT Media Lab

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Honorable Mention:Experimental

Kino—kinetic jewelry

MIT Media Lab

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Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, MIT Media Lab Deborah Ajilo, MIT Mechanical Engineering Oksana Anilionyte, Royal College of Art Artem Dementyev, MIT Media Lab Inrak Choi, Stanford Mechanical Engineering Sean Follmer, Stanford Mechanical Engineering Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab MIT Media Lab in collaboration with MIT Mechanical Engineering, Royal College of Art, and Stanford University's Department of Mechanical Engineering

Honorable Mention:Experimental

Programmable droplets for interaction

MIT Media Lab

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Udayan Umapathi, Project Lead -- Concept, Engineering, Interaction Design Patrick Shin -- Engineering Ken Nakagaki -- Interaction Design Daniel Leithinger -- Interaction Design and Advisor Hiroshi Ishii -- Interaction Design and Advisor

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