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Dupe
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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