Articles
Say it with artificial blooming flowers from morphing material
Have you ever been in a restaurant and felt at the plant on the table to see if it was real or made from plastic? From now on you might be even more easily fooled, ...
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The first house built with bricks from StoneCycling
About a year ago, we first reported on the Dutch startup StoneCycling and their idea to reuse building material to make bricks. From there, they developed the WasteBasedBricks. After a project in Amsterdam where they ...
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Shoes without a footprint made from recycled CO2
Obviously, these shoes do not make your footsteps undetectable, so the spies amongst you may be disappointed, but because the way they are made leaves no carbon footprint on the environment, there is still reason ...
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Merdacotta: ceramics made from cow dung
Using poo to make materials is a great way to make use of a product that normally goes to waste. Things like paper made out of elephant or sheep poo, linoleum and thread made from snail ...
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Eco-shelter made from crop residues
During natural disasters, houses are often wiped off the face of the earth and people are forced to live in tents. In Haiti, six years after the devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010, many people ...
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Self-healing and almost seamless bags by Herschel
The bag company Herschel Supply Co. has launched two kinds of new fabric this year. The first, called Apexknit, can be woven into a particular shape, reducing waste and seams in the bag itself, and ...
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