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A chair formed by 3D printing the shape of your butt

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In collaboration with Unyq, manufacturer of 3D printed medical wearables, and educational e-sport company Area Academy, Ikea aims to develop an ergonomic chair especially for gamers, personalised by 3D scanning and printing the shape of ...

Practical purposes for potato peels

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Students from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Italy developed a cone to hold French fries made from potato peels, while the start-up Chip[s] Board developed an MDF-like board material made from peel waste. Designers ...

A house built with seaweed

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Omar Vázquez Sánchez, founder of the company Blue Green in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, constructed a house in fifteen days, with seaweed as the primary building material. Seaweed is gaining popularity as a material. It is ...

Affordable prosthetics made from recycled plastic waste

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The initiative Project Circleg aims to fight the world’s plastic pollution as well as help people in need of prostheses by producing low cost lower-limb prosthetics made from recycled plastic. The prosthetic leg system is ...

Rugs made from worn out sport shoes

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Sports brand Adidas has commissioned Dutch designer Simone Post to make rugs from worn sport shoes. Worn sport shoes exist in large quantities in the world, and it has a steady waste flow, so it ...

3D printed block of digital wood has an internal grain

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Researchers at Columbia University used a voxel printing techniques to create digital wood, complete with internal grains and external colour textures. The block of digital wood is based on an olive wood sample, with its ...