Here's what we looked at this week: The strange story of how lefty abuse led to the formation of a successful mid-century design duo. Microsoft's new AI face animation technology turns a single snapshot into a convincing talking head. "Make anyone say anything."Outside-the-box thinking: The Seabike is an aquatic bicycle, without the bicycle....

The most common surgical implant is a screw; surgeons insert billions of them in patients each year. Screws need holes, and holes need drills. When wielding these drills, "Surgeons currently use their 'feel' to stop on the far side of the bone," writes McGinley Orthopedic Innovations. Because that "feel" can leave a lot up to chance, company founder...

Sometimes you nail that one component that makes the whole piece. In the case of this Piloti Alu table, by Portugese industrial designer Hugo Passos, it's the corner connector:The frame is aluminum, and the tops are available in stone or laminate. The Piloti Alu is in production by Danish furniture manufacturer Fredericia.

The curse of an industrial designer: Slaving over details no one will get to see. It's a pity that this GO streetlight, by Zurich-based industrial designer Jörg Boner, is mounted so high up. From the ground you can't see how attractive the head is. It's made of die-cast aluminum, with a molded glass cover for the lensed LEDs. The GO is in production...

This Grasp Lamp, by Danish industrial designer Thomas Albertsen, isn't really a lamp in the technical sense: Instead it's a structure to hold lighting. Which is to say, the lamp has no wiring, just a (presumably magnetic) connection point where you pop in a rechargeable LED light. It comes in three flavors: The Grasp Garden Spear, the Grasp Wall...

Space may be infinite, but it has the same problem we do on Earth: Not enough housing. Builders of space habitats are constrained by shipping capacity. While rocket launches have become cheaper and more frequent, there are only so many building materials you can cram into the payload. "For example, the ISS took more than 40 flights," writes Max Space,...