ULTRA

Love The Paperback, The Page and SuperFlyer5000, these Core77 Design Challenge highs took part in envisioning the future of digital reading.

We walk on sidewalks, through buildings, dance on dancefloors. POWERleap energy-harnassing floor tiles want to capture all that movement and make it an energy source.

We've often seen the idea of human powered energy generation in transportation concepts but Elizabeth Redmond wants to take our daily footings and power up the urban electrical grid.

Reminds of Surya London, where the piezo-electric dancefloor generates some of the nightclub's electrical power and a wind turbine the rest.

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Philips looks at the future of food. Looking at what could be, based on where we are, they see our futures with more content-concious, controlled and self-farmed food.

Home Farming, is just that.

Diagnostic Kitchen gives you a swallow-able sensor that will tell you monitor your nutrition and give you personalised information on your food.

Food Creation prints out your meal for you based on your specified shape and consistency.

Harnessing humidity to create purified drinking water, the Wataire can produce up to 30 litres of water a day. Using carbon filtration, reverse osmosis and UV lamp sterilisation with a mineral filter, the Wataire eliminates the water delivery man and the huge and whole process of water sourcing, distribution and consumption.

Though a level of 35% humidity is key.

For more condensation magic, fresh water from air in the Sahara desert.

Seoul based design studio Unplug have dreamt up the Dream Ball. In areas of famine, aid is distributed, soccer balls are a luxury, and play can certainly benefit the situation.

Aid distributed is usually packaged in boxes, but Unplug want to change that. Transforming the usual single-use packaging into perforated cardboard boxes - which can be cut and woven into balls of different sizes by the receivers themselves.

Ecolect get me excited.

A sub-urban idea, stacking the suburbs into the city. Bringing the suburban loves of gardens, parks, community centres and homes into the more efficient urban centre.

As Inhabitat observe, similar to the vertical farm theory and taking us further into the idea of bringing together the best of the urban/suburban - check out the Urban Greenhouse.

Fluorescent lighting could soon be powering up offices.

New Energy Techonologies are on it, developing solar cells that could harness the lighting that offices seem to so love.

First application will probably be used in general office objects, calculators...iPods. But as Clean Technica note, it'd be a great thing for the lighting to power themselves - an in-office solar cycle.

Envision the ideal sustainable village.