A device that turns street lights into floatation devices and a washing machine designed for long-haul truck drivers are among our pick of the best designs presented by graduates from the Middle East at this year's Global Grad Show in Dubai.
Global Grad Show is an exhibition of 150 inventions from the world's leading design and technology schools. Held during Dubai Design Week, from 12 to 17 November 2018, the exhibition features the brightest work from young designers from 100 universities, representing 45 nationalities.
According to exhibition curator Brendan McGetrick, the majority of students this year are "trying to make a positive social or environmental impact".
"It's really focused on innovation in a very broad sense," he said. "We have a lot of projects which are high tech, which are trying to apply technology in particular ways that make human life easier." "At the same time, we have many projects which are not 'low tech' but are applying design intelligence and design sensitivity to, again, try to give people new abilities and to simply make a positive impact on the world. It's really important to provide design students a platform for that."
Here's our pick of the top projects from the Middle East region:

Naji by Farshad Saffari Ghandehari, Molood Sadat Tavakoli, Hemra Teke, Ali Shahmir Barzoki, Mohammad Amin Kamali Moghadam
A group of industrial design students from the Art University of Isfahan designed a device t...