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The Grit Collection: Designing with Sandpaper
‘Grit’ is furniture collection by Israeli designer Avi Fedida offering inspiration in terms of materials and techniques with unique textures created by grinding wood into gritty sandpaper. Sandpaper is of course typically used in construction ...
Read more >Magnetic Fabrics by Lilian Dedio at MX2016
The goal of this work was to explore new limits of fabrics by experimentally developing their familiar features through unexpected modifications.To create these modifications, different aspects of magnetism are incorporated into traditional fabrics. The combination ...
Read more >Innovation: Thin Film Solar Cells at MX2016
Sustainable energy sources such as sun or wind energy have the drawback that they are also highly visible elements that are often considered eyesores. Fortunately, new developments in solar, or photovoltaic cell technology, are making ...
Read more >Mobile Factory turns debris into building blocks for a new life
The Mobile Factory from the Netherlands transforms debris from disaster stricken sites into lego-like building blocks that are rebuilding communities around the world. Rubble – be it from war, natural disaster or demolition – is ...
Read more >Sustainable Plastic Road Future?
Will future roads be made from recycled plastic bottles? Netherlands based company VolkerWessels believes so. This construction company recently presented a concept for the ‘PlasticRoad,’ with the belief that this innovation will result in quicker, ...
Read more >TU Delft Students Win On World Stage With 3D Bacteria Printer
Students from TU Delft have won first prize in a contest in Boston with a 3D printer called The Biolinker. Made of technical K’NEX toys, the Biolinker prints artificial biofilms for industrial or medical applications. ...
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