food

Artificial Meat

The Future of Food

Last year, the world population reached 7 billion. With more mouths to feed, could synthetic meat help meet the growing demand for food? JV Chamary finds out.

Electrolux Flatshare fridge

Gadgets
Manufacturer: Electrolux

Flat cooling

Finally, a way to stop flatmates stealing your milk and causing a stink with out-of-date food. This modular fridge, designed by Austrian Stefan Buchberger, won last year’s Electrolux Design Lab competition and has now been made into a prototype. Each resident in a shared flat gets their own module, and up to four can be stacked on top of the powered base station.

Price: 
Prototype only
Population overload

Population overload

Space, food and fuel are finite and, as the world’s population increases, so will the demand on them. Ian Taylor looks at the outcomes of this growing problem, and how to solve it.