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Dupe

Nov 18, 2023Comments off

Mobile, micro-scaled sandstone manufacturing plant Peter Trimble’s Dupe is a micro-scaled, mobile manufacturing plant that synthesizes sandstone objects out of sand, urine, and bacteria. Building

inFORM

Nov 13, 2023Comments off

Interactive shape-shifting display In 2012, MIT’s Tangible Media Group proposed the idea of radical atoms, a new user-interface paradigm in which atoms become as manipulable

AirCarbon

Aug 30, 2023Comments off

A biodegradable plastic made from isolated carbon and oxygen In recent years, the desire to emulate botanical processes for environmental benefit has inspired design similes

Biomimetic Materials

Aug 15, 2023Comments off

Materials that emulate biological structures Biological materials exhibit various distinctive characteristics like miniaturization, intricacy, hybridization, hierarchical organizations, flexibility, and resistance. Scientists at Pierre and Marie

Bio-LEDs

Jul 16, 2023Comments off

Fluorescent trees Researchers at the Research Center for Applied Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, discovered that when gold nanoparticles are implanted in Bacopa caroliniana plants and

Dynamic Performance of Nature

Jul 06, 2023Comments off

Information-driven, Live Data LED Media Wall Situated sensing technologies have created unprecedented ways with which to achieve a new synchronous relationship with the world. According

Flex-C Trac

Jul 01, 2023Comments off

Fabrication system for curved construction Flex-Ability Concepts manufactures the Flex-C Trac system, which is a construction product used to build curved metal or wood structures.

Light-Controlling Metamaterial

Jun 11, 2023Comments off

Composite that regulates light Electrical engineers at Duke University have developed a material that allows them to manipulate light in much the same way that

ExoSkeleton

May 02, 2023Comments off

Fabric-formed concrete panel ExoSkeleton is a quilted concrete panel made from organic duck cloth canvas and cast concrete. Two layers of the canvas are quilted

Dukta

Apr 17, 2023Comments off

Flexible timber forming system Dukta is a timber forming system that uses precise incisions to impart flexibility. Developed by Christian Kuhn and Serge Lunin, the