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The best way to fix your open plan office? Plants, and lots of them

The best way to fix your open plan office? Plants, and lots of them

Bring the outdoors, indoors, by designing plants into typically sterile environments, like office spaces.

While plenty of offices rely on room dividers made out of conventional materials to keep employees happy, New Territory’s system offers an alternative: planting shrubs in the negative spaces between desks.

“We wanted to give people the opportunity to program the space and consider plant life as a part of the physical infrastructure,” Luke Miles, founder of New Territory, said in a statement.

Lex by Astride is a wearable chair that allows its user to sit anywhere

Lex by Astride is a wearable chair that allows its user to sit anywhere

A group of engineers has created this exoskeleton that allows elderly users to enjoy activities like fishing, commuting and golfing for extended periods.

"The problem we are trying to solve is that there is a growing number of people in the world who are aging and they find it difficult to do activities like fishing or golfing or commuting for an extended period of time," Plooksawasdi said.